Malcolm Ethridge, Mgn. partner, Capital Area Planning Group

He bought more on today's dip. Likes it because: 1) they're past the Warners deal/distraction; 2) they've increase prices the last two years, paying paid subscribers by 40-50 million. NFLX has pricing power. It trades at a 40-50% discount from recent highs. It's not a semi company up 80% in a month, but a quality company that acts like a utility at a cheap price compared to a year ago.

The one-year chart looks terrible, but shares are back to where they were before they walked away from the Warner deal. This is a great time to get in before their next growth catalyst.

They actually build the data centres, but the moment the hyperscalers say they're pulling back on that spending, watch out.

We're waiting for their refresh, for their AI story to pan out. What's keeping shares buoyant is the anticipation of their new products coming out and could eventually lead the Mag 7.

What we heard from Alphabet and TPUs and Amazon with Trainium (their own AI chips) flies in the face of Nvidia being the stock to buy now. NVDA is supposed to go parabolic after it breached $200 recently, but he's less confident in NVDA's level of demand because of competition.

Credit them for not getting into the AI arm race and spending a gazillion dollars unlike at least four peers. Meanwhile, they announced enough cash flow to announce another $100 billion share buyback and increasing their dividend. Also, services revenue came in at a record high and 16% growth, their profit generator going forward. iPhone sales have been surprisingly steady recently. The valuation is high, but can grow into that valuation, say they go into a new hardware phase under the new CEO. 

They turned in a great report about Google cloud which surprised him. They've improved margin despite spending aggressively in building their cloud.

Meta has the biggest question mark in the megatechs because they don't have a direct link between a public cloud to sell credit credits against to offset their large capex.

Upgraded. Tremendous opportunity here. There's still overhang from a shortseller, alleging creative accounting. It's trading like it will never grow again. Meanwhile, they just added 1 million members in the past quarter, huge growth that's turning into a financial powerhouse. 

He added more, despite NOW hitting a 52-week low yesterday. It's probably reached peak pessimism. It will separate from the pack, because its moat because CTO's won't introduce new AI start-ups that are supposed to disrupt the data space with companies they've been building in Silicon Valley in recent years. Also, NOW's earnings and free cash flow are growing, so it's growing into its high valuation.