All three major US wireless carriers are at the bottom of the board at the open, with T-Mobile down 8.9% and AT&T and Verizon close behind. Optical names lead the other side, Applied Optoelectronics up 8.9%.
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- HPEHewlett Packard Enterprise$69.33+9.2%
- ASXASE Technology Holding$47.45+5.0%
- AMCAMC Entertainment$2.77+4.4%
- MRNAModerna$190.01+4.4%
- SSentinelOne$25.06+4.0%
- LITELumentum$1,085.42+3.1%
- KEYSKeysight Technologies$384.64+3.0%
- CRWDCrowdStrike$270.04+2.9%
- RBRKRubrik$118.58+2.6%
- PANWPalo Alto Networks$403.24+1.8%
Nineteen stocks cleared fresh 52-week highs this week, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise led the pack by topping its prior peak by 9.2% at $69.33. ASE Technology, AMC, Moderna and a cluster of security names including CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks also broke out.
Lumentum cleared $1,085.42, taking out its May 11 record by 3.07% and ending nearly five months of chop below that line. The optical name now carries a $97.4 billion market cap.
Three names in our 383-stock board closed with double-digit gains, led by Accenture's 15.6% jump to $211.97, a move that size is rare for a mega-cap consultant. The downside was far tamer, with AMC's 8.2% slide the worst of it.
Bloom Energy closed up 11.21% at $292.34, the only double-digit gain in a 383-name priority list. The other end was just as loud: AMC and DraftKings both gave up more than 7%.
Eric Bleeker's AI Portfolio pick in Lumentum has turned an $83.85 entry into a 11x position in 690 days, one of the few optical names to ride the AI data center buildout this far. Eleven-bagger in under two years is rare air, and the position is still compounding.
Lumentum has turned every $1,000 into nearly $11,000 since Eric Bleeker added it to the AI Portfolio in November 2024. Less than two years to get there, and the optical networking buildout behind it is still ramping.
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