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Something I've been building for a while.
A weekly screener focused on one thing: which stocks are actually beating their market, not just moving with it.
Going live today. Free to subscribe.
Benchmark Beaters
Chip sales are up 144% y/y, a record. But 3-month annualized growth peaked at 266% in May and is now 162%.
Chip stocks are ~30% off their highs. Compounders sold earlier this year to fund the AI trade are bouncing.
Stocks move on the rate of change.
I was on BNN Bloomberg yesterday discussing this: youtu.be/dY2lcrbb6AE?t=1004
I also discussed this on our latest podcast episode: youtu.be/Pxj3HAYDfpU?si=rR-a…
Latest podcast episode is out!
Memory prices are up 248% y/y. That might be the problem.
Even if DRAM rises another 15% in Q4, base effects could pull y/y growth down to ~80% by March.
Markets trade on the rate of change.
Ep. 24 of The Exponent: youtube.com/watch?v=Pxj3HAYD…
$EWY $SMH $MU
Where’s the opportunity in AI stocks, and where are valuations stretched?
Nov 19, I’m walking through the AI compute stack (chips, networking, memory, energy) and the Canadian and US names at each layer, live with @CPA_Ontario. 1.5 CPD hours.
Register: pd.cpaontario.ca/seminars/sp…
Latest podcast episode is out!
Dropping a new episode next week!
Always great to be on @BNNBloomberg's The Close. Takeaways:
- $EMA.TO / $CU.TO / $ACO.X: ATCO holders look like the primary winners
- Power is the new bottleneck. Nuclear 92% uptime
- Tech and consumer discretionary stand out if we get a risk-on move
youtu.be/JkS7tz6gstM?si=-0kC…
The latest weekly list of benchmark beaters' names is out
A few new names: $BDGI.TO $TCS.TO $FTT.TO $BDI.TO
5iresearch.ca/blog/benchmark…
Industrials are running the TSX leaderboard. $MATR.TO tops this week's Canadian Benchmark Beaters, with construction and metals names right behind it.
Also making new relative highs: $SHOP.TO , $HPE , $AMD
Full list: 5iresearch.ca/blog/benchmark…
Chris White - 5i Research retweeted
A quality stock keeps falling. Add more, or walk away?
This week's member Q&A: set a max position size at cost (say 5%), add in pieces, stop once it's reached.
Where we'd add now, and where we'd be pickier: $PNG.V $LMN.V $BN $VNP.TO $OUST
5iresearch.ca/blog/what-cana…
New week, new set of names beating their benchmarks over the past six months
$MATR.TO $BDT.TO $AMD $PANW
42 stocks just hit six-month relative highs.
The leaders:
🟢 $MATR.TO — industrials, +142%
🟢 $BDT.TO — construction, +116%
📈 $MRNA — health care, +273%
📈 $DELL — tech hardware, +221%
All 42 names, free: 5iresearch.ca/blog/benchmark…
Two downloadable PDFs are now included in the Benchmark Beaters series - check it out!
No branches. Net income up 53%. 13x forward earnings. And it already holds a regulated stablecoin for a client.
$VBNK is one of the more interesting small banks in Canada.
I talked about it on BNN's The Street yesterday: youtu.be/ma57nKjuoeo?si=1iy8…
Most investors still think SpaceX is a rocket company.
It's selling excess AI compute to Google and Anthropic at a $26B run rate, more than its entire 2025 sales.
Broke down $SPCX , $BB , and $DDOG on BNN this morning, plus the VIX levels I'm watching:
youtu.be/x9MrSHZwjYI?si=erDr…
BlackBerry's turnaround rests on 3 pillars:
1) ~$1B QNX auto backlog converting to revenue as OEMs hit production
2) QNX real-time systems riding the robotics/physical AI wave
3) Governments onboarding for digital sovereignty
Not the same old $BB story
youtu.be/oFb-wO6hKZs?si=8LDc…