
NASDAQ:NVDA
This was a Top Pick about a year ago, and has been one of his best performing positions over the last year. He really likes semiconductors as a group and technology as a whole, because that is secular growth, i.e., there is change taking place that will go on for a long time. This company is in the absolute forefront of what is happening with things like self driving and Artificial Intelligence (AI). An expensive stock, but in technology, if it is good it should be expensive.
This has been rumoured to be a takeover target along with a number of other firms, which hasn’t happened, and the stock has done reasonably well. He likes what this company does. They don’t have many competitors. They make the technology that makes possible what you see visually from the computer. Thinks it is a good stock to own.
Chip graphics. Has owned this in her aggressive portfolios for a long time, and has been regularly taking profits on it. A chip maker in the graphic area, more and more applications. Elon Musk announced that it was going to be central in Tesla (TSLA-Q) going forward, which adds even more excitement. Doesn’t know if you should be buying large positions today. Watch it trade for a while and make sure you really know what is going on before buying a new position. When the smoke clears, it is basically a semiconductor company, and what we pay for a semiconductor company depends on what the product cycles are.
Technology sector normally does well at this time of year. Except if you look at SPDR Technology ETF (XLK-N), the overall technology sector in the US, not so much because it is heavily weighted in one stock. But if you look at the subsectors, such as the semiconductors with stocks such as this one, they actually bottomed 2 weeks ago so this is starting to look very interesting. Seasonal strength is between now and the beginning of February.
We are seeing a bit of a double top. The relative strength is getting weak. It is a classical exhaustion pattern. It is a nice trend here so if the market resumes then it should participate. Look for it to test the $90 range in a correction.