Brian MaddenMarvell Technology GroupMRVLDON'T BUYFeb 21, 2023

Jensen Huang blessed it. They have a strong relationship with Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft. It's in the sweet spot. Don't chase it here. If you own, ride it with a stop and understand that when it ends you won't collect the entire appreciation.

They report later today. Is up 135% this year.They have strong relationships trading in semis with Amazon and Microsoft's Azure. Options implies a 12% move. There will be speculation in Marvell. The spotlight is on these chips names.

AVGO is like the smaller cousin of NVDA. Built GOOG's AI program, increasingly making waves with Anthropic (owns Claude). Interesting, but not a shoot-the-lights-out opportunity. He'd buy.

MRVL is trying to take a share of the chips that go into GOOG, and is already involved with AMZN cloud. Be careful. It's not a given that it's a capable designer of cutting-edge chips. Coin flip. We've been fooled before.

NVDA is actually more interesting than both.

 They report Thursday. The street expects big things due to MRVL's partnerships with many hyperscalers, especial AWS, which is selling out of its chips. Strong demand for its chips. Great CEO. Buy ahead of earnings.

Likes it, but there's a lot of takeover fluff. Wait until that fluff is gone first. Can't recommend this stock which is up $6.

Nice work! Has cornered the market on trading on the edge. Company was early in this area and so it has an edge, though that probably won't last forever. His 12-month price target is $102, higher than the average analyst. Almost fully priced. Still has good runway going into 2026, maybe into 2027, before someone can catch up.

Hardware. Exceptionally good at edge computing. Pretty close to price target of $75. He took profit yesterday, and bought FIG, SLR, OKLO, and some of the Mag 7.

The guidance disappointed, and he believes in the CEO, but prefers Nvidia.

It hasn't recovered, unlike the bigger semis companies like NVDA. Not his favourite in this space. KLIC is much better, and both are the same trade.

System-on-a-chip architecture is very attractive to Edge AI. Memory business makes it a bit of a cyclical stock. 12-month price target of $90.50. The tech arena may not be frothy, but it isn't cheap, and this one is good value.

Doesn't own because of the cyclical industry. If you get the timing right, can do very well. He likes companies with an economic moat such as TSM, and he's considering ASML.

He targets $108. They just beat top and bottom lines and raised guidance. They delivered record Q1 revenue, a 63% pop YOY. Are running on all cylinders. Strong momentum.

The market didn't like their quarter and sold it, but it's wrong. He likes that the stock bounced at $60 and is up to $71 today.

Good to buy at current levels. They last delivered a good quarter apart from one glitch with a customer.

Interesting company. Big issue on semi demand is really the Chip Act, how it applies to China, and what it does to demand for everyone else. China will be looking to increase market share. You want bigger and better, so he'd probably rather own AVGO.