Share Picks 2026

The intense bull run needs a bit of tempering, and nothing short of a blow out quarter earnings is going to lead to more gains. Obviously hard to call the top of this thing. Dell had a blowout earnings. Broadcomm stayed in line. Growth story is still intact but it might all be priced in now. So this little pull back might help cool things off, might see another run up to next earnings…. and TBH if we do I might consider cashing in more. My feeling is that in 2027 the AI story is going to shift. The true costs of running these services and models will start to be passed on to customers and that might give a short term boost to earnings but I think it might see a more conservative approach to AI which in turn would decimate the growth story. Still loads of growth to be had, the genie is out of the bottle, but I think it will become more conservative which will obviously affect those sky high valuations.

In the same boat. I jumped out of a number of positions a few weeks back and got into a number of smaller AI companies (GLW, MRVL, OCC & PRY). Friday was a white knuckle ride but I'm holding firm and expect a number of more days like that.

Thanks for sharing. I've always liked Intel (used to work for them).

My mindset at the moment though is that the AI bubble is on a knife edge. Nothing but perfect execution from here on out in earning will sustain the valuations. AVGO was the first shot across the bow that the market was getting too far ahead of itself. This pull back is fine and healthy but I'm cautious about entering anything here when it's so hard to call when the sentiment will shift.

Just anecdotally from my current company. We have (in fairness to leadership) killed it when it comes to our AI strategy. On our latest quarterly all hands, you could hear the language shift from our CTO. The "free ride" is over. The true cost of using AI is going to start being passed on to customers. It's like the last 2 years have been a "loss leader" in AI, getting companies hooked on it and now we will start to see increasing costs. Conversations internally are for the first time asking how many tokens are teams using, what are they using them for, etc. My gut feeling is that there'll be an initial nice rise in earnings as customers struggle to adapt quickly and get caught with big AI bills. That will cause a reevaluation within companies about how they are using AI and managing rising costs, which may cause a retreat from AI and in turn cause fear in the markets that this whole AI thing isn't currently as sustainable as everyone thought. The big problem of course is timing when the market figures this out and acts. That's the falling knife I don't want to be buying into. I still think, with a 5-10 year horizon any solid AI plays will return nice growth but this recent pull back is the first evidence that the explosive growth stage is ending.

I invested in a World Cup pie on T212 .. nothing but intra day noise just yet

Are you on trading 212? A "pie" is basically a portfolio of multiple company stocks and/or ETFs. You designate a % weighting to each stock, depending on how much you want it to influence your investment. I have another of 50 of the top S&P 500 companies, all weighted at 2% each.

There are thousands on there. A World Cup pie is simply a portfolio consisting of companies that are sponsoring the World Cup, such as Coca Cola, Lenovo, McDonalds etc

Volume might not result in profit, especially with the current long competition.

My thoughts too. The valuation is mad based on the underlying fundamentals. PS ratio in the 90s afaik.

My worry is if it tanks it will drag everything else down with it. So from that point of view I hope it goes well though I won't be getting involved myself.

If there's another bull run up to the next round of earnings reports, I'm going to take some more profits. I'm holding on to some unrealized losses too, to offset CGT.

Space X will no doubt be a good business, but I’m not buying IPO. I’ll wait for the inevitable 50% crash in 12 months.

Well done to whoever it was that recommended Reddit a few weeks ago. A handy profit could have been made had I listened!

Will probably buy back after a month it’s good to take profits every so often, offset losses and reevaluate

Surprised no one mentioned that the Trump admin potentially just popped the AI bubble by blocking Anthropic and setting a precedent now

Something that happened literally hours after Trumps buddy raked in trillions

And smells awfully like a shakedown, where companies will now have to add the cost of bribing Trump dynasty onto their cost side alongside even more uncertainty

Guess who spacex largest customer is

they can pull out with only 90days notice too

Was tempted to throw in 5k and pull it the second Id made enough for a new gaming pc but I just couldn't bring myself to do it, too sketchy.

Did the same thing with Tesla back in the day, watched it IPO on Google Finance and watched it for weeks afterward, had 10k ready to go in my broker account which I think was with Goodbodys back then, never pulled the trigger even though I knew I should have, that would be worth 3 million now.

Hit 230 in after hours..crazy