Moderna's 17.8% drop was the single biggest move at Tuesday's close, and four of the five worst performers were chip and photonics names. Spotify topped the winners.
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Spotify opened up 10.5% to lead a 389-name board, with Lockheed Martin close behind at 9.3%. The pain is concentrated in chip gear and optics, where Lam Research gave up 10.2% at the bell.
Shares sold off immediately after the filing even as management guided December revenue to roughly $8.60 billion, with AI capacity buildouts pulling systems orders forward. Keep an eye on the stock into the call.
Everyone post their bags, quickly.
Retail's dip list is almost entirely the AI semi complex, yet the thread's top-voted replies are sitting on their hands until the midterms. When 216 comments can't agree whether a selloff is a sale or a top, position sizing is what decides the outcome.
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 10/5/26
- Cramer flags a broken pattern: oil fell while the 30-year yield climbed to 5.66%, near 6%
- Nasdaq's record close carried by Microsoft on Copilot, Meta's small-business ad shift, and Nvidia's all-time high
- Saudis discounting crude $5 below the Oman/Dubai benchmark is market share defense, not a fading war premium
- Caller questions on Intuitive Surgical as a broken stock, plus KLA, Domino's and SoFi
Cramer's warning: strip out Microsoft, Nvidia and Meta and the safety names were hit, meaning three stocks are carrying the index. He says the bond market tells the truth longer term, and the 30-year at 5.66% caps any broad rally. Owning the hyperscalers has been the only trade that worked.
Lam Research has quadrupled since Eric Bleeker added it to the AI Portfolio in January 2025, turning $75 into $314. Chip equipment makers are the toll booth on every AI fab buildout.
- 2CINFCincinnati Financial$0.94/sh$144M
- 3GFSGlobalFoundries$0.12/sh$66.9M
- 4BFCBank First$0.60/sh$6.7M
- 5SGASaga Communications$0.25/sh$1.6M
Lam Research is handing shareholders about $413 million, or 33 cents a share, with the cash arriving October 14. Cincinnati Financial follows with $144 million, and three more companies round out today's payouts.
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