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For the week of July 6, 2026 · Updated Sundays

Last week's concentration call flipped back to green — three of five closed higher despite a holiday-shortened week. This week the list expands: fifteen names instead of five, because one screen isn't enough right now. TSMC reports in eleven days after raising capex to a record. AMD's Advancing AI summit is two weeks out. Palantir just landed Nvidia and the U.S. Army in the same week. Here's the full board.

Results

Last Week’s Scorecard

Week of June 29 · trailing 4 sessions through Thu July 2 close (market closed Fri July 3 for Independence Day) · 3 of 5 green · avg +9.62%

CBRSCerebras Systems

+26.21%

closed $204.86 · sharp recovery off the post-earnings low, AWS partnership and ARK buying held the floor

RKLBRocket Lab Corporation

+24.07%

closed $100.51 · the Iridium-deal pop mostly held after the initial spike faded

IBMInternational Business Machines

+11.68%

closed $289.24 · steady grind higher — the sub-1nm story keeps working

AVGOBroadcom

−2.74%

closed $360.30 · roughly flat, chopped around the Jalapeño headline

LITELumentum Holdings

−11.12%

closed $728.81 · gave back the AI-optics bid into the broader chip-sector pullback

Scored on the trailing move through Thursday’s close — four sessions this week, not five, with markets closed Friday for Independence Day. A winning week net of the pullback in LITE and AVGO.

This Week · Ranked by Conviction

Fifteen Names on My Screen

The list is bigger this week — fifteen names instead of five, each carrying the full 1-year analyst target range. The first five are open to everyone. The next ten, where I see the bigger upside, are for subscribers. This is where my attention is, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

NVDANVIDIA Corporation

Strong Buy

The anchor of the list. Foxconn says AI-rack shipments and accelerator demand are staying strong into Q3 — exactly the read-through the whole sector is watching for. Fifty-five of fifty-seven covering analysts rate it Strong Buy, the least controversial demand story on this screen.

Catalyst: Foxconn commentary reaffirming continued AI-rack and accelerator shipment strength, reinforcing that hyperscaler orders aren’t slowing into the back half of the year.

Current Jul 5

$194.83

Avg Target

$313.39

+60.85%

$194.83

Avg

Min $180.00 · −7.61%Max $743.10 · +281.41%

57 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: steady, adding on any broad red day. This is the position-size anchor for the whole list — if the AI trade doesn’t work, nothing else here does either.

Watching: hyperscaler capex commentary into earnings season · Vera Rubin ramp updates

CBRSCerebras Systems

Strong Buy

Carrying this one forward. The post-earnings crash bottomed near $161 and the stock has ripped back into the mid-$200s — and even after the bounce, the entire analyst range now sits at or above today’s price.

Catalyst: Freedom Capital initiated at Hold — the one dissenting voice — but Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Needham stayed bullish through the move, and the AWS Trainium 3 + CS-3 partnership remains the core of the story.

Current Jul 5

$204.86

Avg Target

$291.09

+42.09%

$204.86

Avg

Min $209.00 · +2.02%Max $340.00 · +65.97%

11 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026 · price sits just below the entire target range

Where I’m buying: still buying, sized for volatility. This name moves 10%+ in a session — the setup hasn’t changed, just the entry point.

Watching: OpenAI revenue concentration · whether analyst coverage broadens past 11 names

TSMTaiwan Semiconductor

Strong Buy

The best-timed name on the board. TSMC reports Q2 earnings July 16 — eleven days out — and just raised full-year 2026 capex guidance to a record $52–56B, with more than 70% earmarked for advanced nodes.

Catalyst: The record capex raise confirms hyperscaler AI orders aren’t slowing, even as sentiment elsewhere in the chip complex got shaky this week. TSMC enters its earnings quiet period July 6 — no fresh commentary expected before the print.

Current Jul 5

$434.16

Avg Target

$478.59

+10.23%

$434.16

Avg

Min $354.00 · −18.46%Max $625.00 · +43.96%

17 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: building into the print, smaller size. This is the “own the foundry, not just the customers” trade — lower beta than the names it supplies.

Watching: Q2 earnings July 16 · N2 node ramp commentary

AVGOBroadcom

Strong Buy

Still the name that started this whole sector’s selloff back in June — and still working through it. Shares slipped again this week even as the Jalapeño custom-chip story with OpenAI keeps developing.

Catalyst: No fresh company-specific news this week; the drop tracked the broader chip-sector pullback rather than anything Broadcom-specific. Bernstein’s “absurdly cheap” valuation call from two weeks ago hasn’t been challenged by anything since.

Current Jul 5

$360.30

Avg Target

$525.71

+45.91%

$360.30

Avg

Min $215.88 · −40.09%Max $671.00 · +86.24%

49 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: scaling in on red days, same as last week. The floor sits 40% under today’s price — that’s the size of the cushion if the bear case shows up.

Watching: hyperscaler capex commentary · whether it reclaims the pre-guidance range

MUMicron Technology

Strong Buy

Got caught in this week’s broad chip-sector selloff, giving back some of its post-earnings run. The fundamentals didn’t move — the Y1.5T Hiroshima fab expansion for AI-grade DRAM and HBM is still on track for 2028 shipments.

Catalyst: A broad semiconductor sell-off, not a Micron-specific problem — the stock traded down alongside the rest of the group. Japan is reportedly weighing a subsidy of up to ¥500B for the Hiroshima expansion.

Current Jul 5

$975.56

Avg Target

$1,574.41

+61.39%

$975.56

Avg

Min $470.00 · −51.82%Max $2,200.00 · +125.51%

44 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: buying the pullback. Same trade as two weeks ago — the memory/HBM supply story hasn’t changed, only the price.

Watching: DRAM/HBM pricing trends · capacity timeline updates out of Japan

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10 More Names on My Screen

The five above are where I’d start. Based on this week’s research, I believe several of the next ten carry even more upside potential — including the name I’m sizing heaviest this week. Full theses, catalysts, and target ranges are reserved for subscribers.

As always, this reflects my own research and positioning — not a guarantee, and not personalized investment advice.

LITELumentum Holdings

Strong Buy

Fell harder than almost anything else on this list this week — down over 11% with no company-specific bad news, pure sector rotation out of optics and photonics names. The floor still sits well above today’s price.

Catalyst: No fresh headline this week; the drop tracked the broader AI-hardware pullback. Nvidia’s $2B equity stake and the photonics buildout thesis are unchanged.

Current Jul 5

$728.81

Avg Target

$1,132.81

+55.43%

$728.81

Avg

Min $900.00 · +23.49%Max $1,400.00 · +92.11%

25 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026 · price below the entire target range

Where I’m buying: this is now one of my favorite dips on the entire list. Bigger discount, same thesis, same floor.

Watching: whether the optics complex (LITE, COHR) bounces together · fiscal Q4 earnings mid-August

MSTRStrategy

Strong Buy

My highest-conviction, highest-risk call. The Digital Credit Capital Framework from last week — preferred and common buybacks, a bigger USD reserve, a dividend hike — directly targets the NAV-discount problem that’s had this stock trading below its own Bitcoin holdings.

Catalyst: Bitcoin sits well below Strategy’s own average cost basis of ~$75,651/BTC. The framework is real, but the stock’s near-term fate still rides on Bitcoin’s price, not company execution.

Current Jul 5

$100.77

Avg Target

$309.87

+207.50%

$100.77

Avg

Min $130.00 · +29.01%Max $570.00 · +465.67%

15 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026 · tracks Bitcoin, not company fundamentals

Where I’m buying: still buying heavy here. Size it knowing the drawdown risk is as real as the upside case.

Watching: Bitcoin reclaiming the ~$73,900 technical level · STRC dividend change effective July 1

AMDAdvanced Micro Devices

Buy

A great business trading like it. AMD is up huge this year and the average analyst target has basically caught up to the stock — near-term upside from here depends on the next catalyst, not the target catching up to the price.

Catalyst: The Advancing AI 2026 summit lands July 22–23; Citi believes a major new chip-customer announcement is possible. Wells Fargo just raised its target to $615 on EPYC server-CPU demand — the Street isn’t uniformly cautious, just split.

Current Jul 5

$517.82

Avg Target

$511.76

−1.17%

$517.82

Avg

Min $320.00 · −38.20%Max $700.00 · +35.18%

51 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026 · price sits just above the average target

Where I’m buying: small position, adding into the summit. This is a “let the news come to you” name, not a blind dip-buy — valuation is stretched enough that a miss would hurt.

Watching: Advancing AI summit, July 22–23 · any new hyperscaler customer disclosure

GOOGAlphabet Inc.

Strong Buy

The steadiest mega-cap on this list — the most analyst coverage of anything here, and the least controversial thesis. Cloud growth and the Gemini build-out keep grinding higher without needing a single headline to justify the position.

Catalyst: No fresh company-specific news this week — this is an “own the compounder” slot, not a news-driven trade.

Current Jul 5

$356.18

Avg Target

$435.23

+22.19%

$356.18

Avg

Min $340.00 · −4.54%Max $550.00 · +54.42%

60 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: steady accumulation regardless of the day. Same role IBM played on last week’s list.

Watching: Cloud backlog disclosure at next earnings · capex guidance trajectory

MSFTMicrosoft Corp.

Strong Buy

High-quality, high-conviction, and quiet this week — which is the point. No single headline moved this one; it just kept compounding while noisier AI names whipsawed.

Catalyst: Nothing ticker-specific this week — the case is the one that’s worked all year: Azure growth, the OpenAI relationship, and Copilot attach rate.

Current Jul 5

$390.49

Avg Target

$559.02

+43.16%

$390.49

Avg

Min $400.00 · +2.44%Max $870.00 · +122.80%

54 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026 · price sits just below the entire target range

Where I’m buying: steady accumulation. Lower-beta ballast for a list with several high-volatility names on it.

Watching: Azure growth rate at next earnings · capex guidance

AMZNAmazon.com Inc.

Strong Buy

AWS’s Trainium buildout keeps this one in the AI conversation, but the more interesting story this week is the growing local pushback against new data-center construction in several markets.

Catalyst: Rising community opposition to data-center buildouts is a real headline risk to watch — a sentiment and permitting-timeline risk right now, not yet a fundamentals one.

Current Jul 5

$242.67

Avg Target

$317.30

+30.75%

$242.67

Avg

Min $230.00 · −5.22%Max $370.00 · +52.47%

61 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: standard accumulation, no change in sizing. Watching the data-center backlash story more closely than the stock price this week.

Watching: local data-center permitting fights · AWS Trainium 3 adoption updates

NOWServiceNow, Inc.

Strong Buy

A quality enterprise-software name with a wide analyst-implied range. This week’s news is modest — a regional automation partnership — but the setup underneath it is clean.

Catalyst: BARQ Systems partnership to accelerate enterprise digital transformation and automation — a real but incremental deal, not a re-rating event on its own.

Current Jul 5

$106.32

Avg Target

$140.38

+32.04%

$106.32

Avg

Min $85.00 · −20.05%Max $236.00 · +121.97%

42 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: standard-size accumulation. Earnings land July 22 — a real catalyst is closer than the current news flow suggests.

Watching: earnings July 22 · Now Assist (AI Platform) adoption commentary

SHOPShopify Inc.

Buy

The only name on this list where the analyst floor sits below today’s price — worth sizing accordingly. A board-level governance change this week isn’t a growth catalyst, just noise worth knowing about.

Catalyst: Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah resigned from the board; Joe Natale takes over chairing the Audit Committee. No operational impact disclosed.

Current Jul 5

$119.46

Avg Target

$145.35

+21.67%

$119.46

Avg

Min $105.07 · −12.05%Max $191.97 · +60.70%

44 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: smaller position given the softer floor. Earnings land July 29 — that’s the real test, not this week’s board news.

Watching: earnings July 29 · GMV growth trend into holiday-season guidance

COHRCoherent Corp.

Buy

Last week’s steadiest performer — down just 4.56% in a red week — gets a fresh vote of confidence this week.

Catalyst: Raymond James reiterated its Strong Buy rating on Coherent three days ago, keeping the optics/photonics bull case alive even as LITE sold off harder this week.

Current Jul 5

$333.36

Avg Target

$391.00

+17.29%

$333.36

Avg

Min $230.00 · −31.01%Max $465.00 · +39.49%

22 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: standard accumulation, tracking alongside LITE as the optics-complex pair trade.

Watching: whether the optics complex (LITE, COHR) bounces together · next earnings date

PLTRPalantir Technologies

Buy

The widest range on this list — and the most binary. A new Nvidia partnership for sovereign AI deployment plus a fresh U.S. Army Foundry contract reignited the bull case this week, but the daily chart is still technically bearish, sitting below all three major moving averages.

Catalyst: Palantir and Nvidia launched a joint engine for deploying Nemotron open models in secure government environments; separately, the U.S. Army selected Palantir Foundry for its NGC2 modernization program.

Current Jul 5

$129.30

Avg Target

$190.30

+47.18%

$129.30

Avg

Min $70.00 · −45.86%Max $255.00 · +97.22%

23 analysts · consensus as of Jul 2, 2026

Where I’m buying: smaller position, momentum-driven. A “ride the news, respect the chart” name, not a set-and-forget accumulation.

Watching: follow-through above the $128–$133 zone · any new hyperscaler or government contract disclosure

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Fifteen names, four sessions of real recovery behind us, and three real catalysts already on the calendar — TSMC's print, AMD's summit, and Palantir's momentum. I'll keep showing the full range on every one, so you're never seeing only the upside.

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For the week of June 29, 2026 · Updated Sundays

Last week I flagged the concentration risk in a list riveted to one trade — and it hit. Every name finished red. The thesis didn't break; the entries got cheaper. Here's the honest scorecard, and where I'm putting capital this week.

The AI-infrastructure complex had its sharpest week of selling in months, triggered by cautious guidance out of Broadcom and unwound positioning across the board. Since then the picture has shifted: Micron's blowout earnings reignited the AI-demand story, Broadcom unveiled a new custom chip with OpenAI, IBM posted a real chip breakthrough, and Rocket Lab dropped the biggest deal of the year. This week's list leans into that — where I see real upside, and where I'm buying weakness rather than waiting for it to pass.

Results

Last Week’s Scorecard

Week of June 22 · trailing 5 sessions through Fri June 26 close · 0 of 5 green · avg −10.63% · the concentration call held

MUMicron Technology

−5.73%

closed $1,132.33 · ran to ~$1,240 post-earnings, gave it back into the sector selloff

NBISNebius Group

−17.30%

closed $240.30 · the index-inclusion pop fully round-tripped

Tagged Speculative going in — highest potential, highest risk, and the risk won this week.

MRVLMarvell Technology

−15.22%

closed $266.77 · lost the $300 round number it was watching

VRTVertiv Holdings

−10.34%

closed $303.95 · the “anchor” name held up best, relatively

COHRCoherent Corp.

−4.56%

closed $380.56 · the “accumulate on weakness” name held up best of all five

Scored on the trailing 5-session move through Friday’s close. A red week, called in advance — the discipline is owning it, not hiding it.

This Week · Ranked by Upside

Five Names on My Screen

Each carries the full 1-year analyst target range — floor, average, and ceiling — plus the news driving it this week. I'm buying weakness on several of these; sizing and risk are noted on each. This is where my attention is, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

CBRSCerebras Systems

Strong Buy

The rare setup where the entire analyst range sits above today’s price — even the most bearish target implies +50%. First earnings as a public company (June 23) showed 92% revenue growth and confirmed a $20B+ multi-year OpenAI deal, but Q2 margin guidance of 36–38% (down from 46.5%) spooked the stock into a 16–17% drop before it bounced ~8% into the weekend.

Catalyst: Post-IPO earnings volatility plus a confirmed AWS partnership (Trainium 3 + CS-3 disaggregated inference). Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Needham all reiterated bullish targets through the selloff; Cathie Wood's ARK bought the dip.

Current Jun 28

$181.59

Avg Target

$299.30

+64.82%

$181.59

Avg

Min $273.00 · +50.34%Max $340.00 · +87.23%

11 analysts · consensus as of Jun 28, 2026 · price sits below the entire target range

Where I’m buying: aggressively on weakness here. When even the floor is +50%, the dip is the opportunity — but the customer base is heavily concentrated in OpenAI, so size it like the high-variance name it is.

Watching: OpenAI relationship updates · whether coverage expands beyond 11 analysts

RKLBRocket Lab Corporation

Buy

The single biggest catalyst on the board. Rocket Lab agreed today to acquire Iridium Communications for ~$8.0B in cash and stock, instantly converting the company from a launch provider into a vertically integrated space player with Iridium’s 66 active LEO satellites and 2.5M+ billable subscribers. Shares jumped as much as 15.6% intraday on the news.

Catalyst: $8B Iridium acquisition (announced today, deal expected to close mid-2027), funded by a $3.6B bridge loan from Deutsche Bank and Wells Fargo. Adds recurring satellite-services revenue the company calls immediately accretive. KeyBanc separately called RKLB “the clear #2 to SpaceX” (June 15).

Current Jun 28

$96.91

Avg Target

$108.81

+12.28%

$96.91

Avg

Min $60.00 · −38.09%Max $150.00 · +54.78%

16 analysts · consensus as of Jun 28, 2026 · targets predate today’s deal news

Where I’m buying: watching the post-announcement settle, then adding. A deal this size brings dilution and integration risk — the floor sits well below spot, so I want to see the pop hold before sizing up.

Watching: whether the rally holds above the $90s · analyst target updates following the Iridium deal

LITELumentum Holdings

Strong Buy

Caught in the sector-wide AI selloff with no company-specific bad news — which is exactly what makes it interesting. Lumentum sits at the center of Nvidia’s $6.5B+ photonics buildout, anchored by Nvidia’s own $2B investment in the company. The floor on this one sits above today’s price.

Catalyst: No fresh company-specific news — the drop was sector rotation, not a Lumentum problem. JPMorgan's Samik Chatterjee called the optical-sector selloff a buying opportunity; Northland raised its target to $1,200.

Current Jun 28

$816.98

Avg Target

$1,132.81

+38.66%

$816.98

Avg

Min $900.00 · +10.16%Max $1,400.00 · +71.36%

25 analysts · consensus as of Jun 28, 2026 · price below the entire target range

Where I’m buying: this is one of my favorite dips on the list. No bad news, a floor above spot, and a real Nvidia commitment behind the thesis.

Watching: whether the optics complex (LITE, COHR) bounces together · fiscal Q4 earnings mid-August

AVGOBroadcom

Strong Buy

The name that started the whole sector's selloff in early June now has the update that could turn sentiment back around. Broadcom and OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom inference chip, co-developed in nine months for gigawatt-scale deployment by end of 2026. CEO Hock Tan called compute demand from customers “simply insatiable.”

Catalyst: Jalapeño chip reveal (June 24) plus Micron’s blockbuster June 24 earnings reigniting the broader AI-chip trade. Bernstein’s Stacy Rasgon called valuations “absurdly cheap” with “no signs of slowing” demand.

Current Jun 28

$365.02

Avg Target

$525.71

+44.02%

$365.02

Avg

Min $215.88 · −40.86%Max $671.00 · +83.83%

49 analysts · consensus as of Jun 28, 2026

Where I’m buying: scaling in on red days. The floor sits 40% under today — size it, because the bear case isn’t hypothetical if the AI trade keeps unwinding.

Watching: hyperscaler capex commentary · whether it reclaims the pre-guidance range

IBMInternational Business Machines

Buy

The steadiest name on the list, with a real technical headline behind it: IBM unveiled the world’s first sub-1nm chip architecture on June 25, claiming up to 50% more performance or 70% better energy efficiency than its 2nm node. JPMorgan upgraded to Overweight two days earlier, citing software acceleration into H2.

Catalyst: Sub-1nm chip breakthrough (June 25) + JPMorgan upgrade to Overweight, $291 target (June 23). Note: this is a multi-year roadmap milestone licensed to foundry partners, not near-term revenue — the move here is sentiment, not an earnings event.

Current Jun 28

$271.63

Avg Target

$298.53

+9.90%

$271.63

Avg

Min $195.00 · −28.21%Max $390.00 · +43.58%

25 analysts · consensus as of Jun 28, 2026

Where I’m buying: steady accumulation, regardless of the day. This is the position that lets you hold the higher-beta names through weeks like the last one.

Watching: Q2 earnings July 22 · the $260 support shelf

Bonus Pick of the Week

MSTR · Strategy

This is the one I’m watching hardest this week, outside the core five. Strategy just unveiled a sweeping Digital Credit Capital Framework on June 29 — a $1B preferred buyback, a $1B common buyback, a $2.55B USD reserve, and a dividend hike on its STRC preferred to 12% — aimed squarely at the problem that's had the stock trading below its own Bitcoin holdings. It's a leveraged Bitcoin proxy, not a chip story, which is exactly why the targets look surreal: a +308% average and a floor of +98% above today's price, because they ride on where Bitcoin goes, not company fundamentals.

Catalyst: Digital Credit Capital Framework announced today, directly targeting the NAV-discount complaint. Bitcoin sits near $59,860 — below Strategy’s own average cost basis of ~$75,651/BTC — after a stretch of spot-ETF outflows. The framework is a real positive; the stock's fate still rides on Bitcoin's price.

Current Jun 28

$82.31

Avg Target

$336.33

+308.62%

$82.31

Avg

Min $163.00 · +98.03%Max $570.00 · +592.50%

19 analysts · consensus as of Jun 28, 2026 · tracks Bitcoin, not company fundamentals

Where I’m buying: I'm buying heavy on this one this week. The upside case is enormous if Bitcoin turns — but size it knowing the drawdown risk is just as real. This is my highest-conviction call of the week, and also my highest-risk one.

Watching: Bitcoin reclaiming the ~$73,900 technical level · the STRC dividend change effective July 1

A red week I called in advance doesn’t change the plan — it sets the entries. I’ll keep showing you the full range, floor and ceiling, so you’re never seeing only the upside.

— Gilded Signals

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