NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications. The Compute & Networking segment comprises Data Center computing platforms and end-to-end networking platforms, including Quantum for InfiniBand and Spectrum for Ethernet; NVIDIA DRIVE automated-driving platform and automotive development agreements; Jetson robotics and other embedded platforms; NVIDIA AI Enterprise and other software; and DGX Cloud software and services. The company's products are used in gaming, professional visualization, data center, and automotive markets. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original device manufacturers, system integrators and distributors, independent software vendors, cloud service providers, consumer internet companies, add-in board manufacturers, distributors, automotive manufacturers and tier-1 automotive suppliers, and other ecosystem participants. NVIDIA Corporation was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

NVIDIA Corporation

Key Points
Nvidia continues to dominate the AI training and inference markets worldwide.
Micron is benefiting from the AI-powered surge in demand for memory.
TSMC is manufacturing the majority of the chips powering the AI infrastructure build-out.
Gen Z investors are increasingly opting for a long-term, growth-first mindset and are investing earlier than any generation before them.
According to the World Economic Forum, 30% of Gen Z begin investing as university students or in early adulthood, far higher than 15% of millennials and 9% of Gen X. Motley Fool's Generational Investing Trends Survey also found that 45% of Gen Z investors prefer growth stocks, while nearly 22% are likely to be invested in artificial intelligence (AI) stocks.
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Against this backdrop, here are three stocks that could be well suited for Gen Z-style investment portfolios focused on AI-driven growth.
1. Nvidia
Nvidia's (NASDAQ: NVDA) chips have been increasingly powering Gen Z's digital life, as its graphics processing units (GPUs) and networking platforms continue to be the backbone of modern AI training and inference (deployment in real-time environments).
Nvidia has been exceptionally successful in monetizing this demand. Analysts expect fiscal 2026 (ended Jan. 26, 2026) revenue of about $213.3 billion, up roughly 63.5% year over year. They also project the fiscal 2026 average earnings-per-share (EPS) estimate of $4.69, representing 56.8% year-over-year growth. Nvidia also enjoys more than $500 billion worth of revenue visibility for its Blackwell and Rubin systems from the start of 2025 through 2026.
The company's business momentum can further accelerate, as Chinese authorities have reportedly told Chinese technology giants Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can "prepare" orders for Nvidia's H200 AI chips. If Beijing approves imports of these AI chips, it could open an annual market opportunity worth more than $50 billion for the company, according to CEO Jensen Huang.
It is also reported that Chinese technology companies have already ordered more than 2 million H200 chips, far higher than Nvidia's available inventory of just 700,000 units. With demand significantly exceeding available supply, Nvidia will continue to enjoy strong pricing power.
Nvidia has also developed the next-generation Vera Rubin platform, a six-chip system integrating a central processing unit (CPU), GPU, networking hardware, and data center infrastructure. Designed to offer dramatically higher performance at significantly lower cost than the prior Blackwell system, Rubin can further extend the company's dominance in the AI data center space.
All these factors make Nvidia an unmatched opportunity for Gen Z investors in 2026.
2. Micron
Micron's (NASDAQ: MU) memory chips are also playing a crucial role in the ongoing AI boom. In the first quarter of fiscal 2026 (ended Nov. 27, 2025), the company's revenues were up nearly 57% year over year to $13.6 billion, while EPS jumped 167% year over year to $4.78. Free cash flow also reached a record $3.9 billion.
Management said its high-bandwidth memory (HBM, a type of DRAM kept close to GPUs for efficiently running AI workloads) was "effectively sold out" through calendar year 2026. With DRAM and NAND demand also far surpassing available supply, memory prices have soared by nearly 50% in the last quarter of 2025 and are expected to surge another 40% to 50% by the end of the first quarter of 2026. Since only three companies, SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron, together make more than 90% of the global memory supply, these companies will continue to enjoy premium pricing power.
To capitalize on the growing opportunity, Micron is investing around $200 billion to build incremental production capacity in the U.S. While the company is investing $100 billion in a leading-edge memory facility in New York comprised of four fabrication plants, the remaining amount will be spent on two fabrication plants in Idaho, the expansion of a manufacturing plant in Virginia, and on HBM packaging capabilities.
Micron has also signed a letter of intent to buy Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing's P5 fabrication plant in Taiwan for $1.8 billion in cash. This deal is expected to close in 2026 and contribute meaningful DRAM wafer output starting in the second half of calendar year 2027. This move has further strengthened Micron's long-term memory-manufacturing footprint and can support the next wave of AI-driven memory demand.
3. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Gen Z investors who do not want to guess which AI app or device will win can consider buying Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM), the company that makes advanced chips powering almost all of them. Hence, TSMC is a significant beneficiary of the rising demand for AI data centers, smartphones, and next-generation computing hardware.
In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 (ended Dec. 31, 2025), revenues were up 25.5% year over year to $33.7 billion, while operating margin was a solid 54%, and net income margin was 48.3%. This shows that the company has maintained profitability despite being supply constrained. Management expects revenues to be in the range of $34.6 billion to $35.8 billion and operating margins in the range of 54% to 56% in fiscal 2026's Q1. The robust outlook underscores continued confidence in the AI market's growth potential.
TSMC is aggressively expanding capacity to fuel growth in the coming years. The company plans to invest $52 billion to $56 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, with 70% to 80% allotted to advanced process technologies, 10% to specialty technologies, and the remaining 10% to 20% to advanced packaging, testing, and mask making. All this infrastructure is crucial for making AI chips. The company plans to expand capacity in Taiwan and Arizona, while optimizing production across its leading-edge nodes to maximize output.
AI accelerator (chips) revenues accounted for a high-teens percentage of total revenues in 2025. The company now expects AI accelerator revenues to grow annually at a mid -to-high 50% compounded average growth rate (CAGR) from 2024 to 2029.
With TSMC rapidly expanding its AI chip-manufacturing potential, the company can prove to be a solid addition to a Gen Z portfolio.
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3 Top AI Stocks for Gen Z Investors to Consider Buying Now

Key Points
Apple stock is cooling off after a rapid run-up in the second half of last year.
A Gemini-powered Siri upgrade could come in February.
Apple shares are far from cheap.
Less than one month into the new year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is already down 8.8% year to date at the time of this writing, compared to a 1% gain in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC).
That makes Apple the second-worst-performing component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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Here's what's driving the sell-off, and if the mega-cap tech stock is a buy now.
Context is key
Always take context into account when evaluating a stock's performance within a specific window, such as year to date or a year.
Apple sold off in the first half of 2025 due to tariff-related fears of eroding margins that never came true. The stock then gained 32.5% in the second half of the year. So heading into 2026, the company had added more than $1 trillion in market cap in a matter of months.
The stock is still up big over the last seven months, even when factoring in its pullback so far this year. It's up to investors to decide how much of the gain is warranted.
Apple is making a splash with AI
On Jan. 12, Alphabet and Apple published a joint statement announcing the integration of Google's Gemini models and cloud technology into the next generation of Apple Foundation Models. Reports indicate that a Gemini-powered version of Siri could come as soon as February.
Having a voice-controlled artificial intelligence (AI) assistant is a brilliant move on Apple's part. Manually-controlled AI functionality may be off-putting to some users, but narrating commands to an assistant could make AI more approachable for users who aren't tech savvy. It's also a good way for the company to gradually phase in AI rather than launching big, overwhelming upgrades.
Apple is known for taking its time with product launches, which is something long-term investors can appreciate. Instead, it aims to maximize the overall impact of a product or a product line's life cycle.
And that was certainly the case last year with the iPhone 17, which featured significant improvements in its camera, processing, and design but lacked the AI showstopper that some investors wanted.
Still, the iPhone 17 came out in September 2025, and investors cheered strong demand and a return to meaningful earnings growth, which Apple had been lacking for years.
Fundamentals are improving
As you can see in the following chart, Apple's earnings soared during the pandemic as consumers shifted purchasing from services to products, but then stagnated. Its recent results have given its earnings and operating margins a much-needed jolt.
Apple's product revenue grew 4.1% in fiscal 2025, and services revenue jumped 13.5%.
For the fiscal year, products raked in a highly impressive 36.8% gross margin, but services were even better at 75.4%. And with services now making up 26.2% of total sales, margins could continue to expand.
Overall, Apple's results have been solid. And that's without factoring in the growth potential of what is likely to be a big calendar year for the company with AI-powered software upgrades and an iPhone purpose-built for AI integration, which may also feature its first-ever foldable design.
Higher-end versions of the iPhone 18 are expected to be powered by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's 2-nanometer chips, which will make it by far the most expensive iPhone ever, but will also drastically improve processing and battery life.
Apple's valuation is elevated
With earnings growth and margins improving, the stock may become more appealing to growth investors. But its valuation is expensive, given that analyst estimates have the company growing earnings by only 10.3% in fiscal 2026 and 10.5% in fiscal 2027.
Even after its recent sell-off, Apple has a 30.9 forward price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) -- which is more expensive than Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms. Even Broadcom, which is growing at a breakneck pace and is also high-margin, has a 31.6 forward P/E. And Nvidia -- which converts over half of its revenue into after-tax net income and is also growing at a breakneck pace -- has a forward P/E under 40.
I would choose every stock in that chart over Apple because they all have strong competitive moats and more attractive valuations relative to their growth potential. Another distinct difference between Apple and other major tech stocks is its business model.
Apple is heavily dependent on consumer spending. In fiscal 2025, it demonstrated remarkable resilience in its core North American market, and strong growth in Europe and Asia (outside of China).
But China sales declined, and it remains to be seen if U.S. consumers will continue paying higher prices for Apple's AI-integrated devices, especially given that the cost of living continues to outpace wage growth. By comparison, big tech companies that rely mainly on business-to-business sales aren't as sensitive to weakness in consumer spending.
Keep Apple on a watch list (for now)
Apple is a decent stock to buy in 2026, but it's not all that compelling. Investors can buy a high-octane growth stock like Broadcom for a similar valuation, or get far more balanced earnings growth from Microsoft, or high margins and solid earnings from Meta at a far less expensive valuation.
The slower a company's earnings growth, the more critical you should be of its valuation. And in Apple's case, it's somewhere between a tech stock and a consumer-facing company.
In terms of consumer-facing companies, I would much rather buy high-yield dividend stocks like Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble, which are passive-income powerhouses at far more attractive valuations than Apple.
That said, investors who believe in Apple's ability to capitalize on AI may still want to consider buying Apple now. And if there is a sell-off in AI stocks or a pullback in hyperscaler spending on AI, I would expect Apple to hold up far better than companies that have been pouring capital into long-term AI investments. Apple has an impeccable balance sheet and consistently generates gobs of free cash flow, which it uses to buy back stock and invest in long-term projects.
In sum, there are worse ideas than buying Apple after its latest pullback, but it's not a screaming buying opportunity by any means.
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Apple Is the Second-Worst-Performing Dow Jones Stock So Far in 2026. Is the Sell-Off a Buying Opportunity?

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AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia Stock Investors Just Got Fantastic News from CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Key Points
Amazon and Uber have delivered substantial returns since January 2023, but former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer says it's not too late to buy the stocks.
Amazon is not only using artificial intelligence to drive revenue growth in its cloud computing business, but also to make its retail operations more efficient.
Uber runs the largest ride-sharing platform in the world, which means it is uniquely positioned to help autonomous driving companies brings robotaxis to market.
Since January 2023, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares have increased 190%, while Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) shares have increased 230%. But CNBC's Jim Cramer, a former hedge fund manager who earned returns of 24% annually over 14 years, recently said both stocks are still worth buying.
Here are the important details.
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1. Amazon
Amazon has a strong presence in three big industries. It operates the largest e-commerce marketplace in North America, Western Europe, and the Middle East. It is the third largest ad tech company in the world. And Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest cloud services provider as measured by infrastructure and platform services spending.
Leadership in cloud computing is particularly important because it means AWS is ideally positioned to benefit as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure increases. CEO Andy Jassy recently told analysts, "AWS is where the preponderance of companies' data and workloads reside, and part of why most companies want to run AI on AWS."
AWS has doubled down on the opportunity by developing custom AI accelerators for training and inference, which provide customers with an alternative to Nvidia GPUs. The company has also positioned itself as the primary cloud provider for Anthropic, an AI startup valued at $350 billion. Finally, AWS has introduced new cloud services such as Bedrock for generative AI application development.
Elsewhere, Amazon is using AI to make its retail business more efficient. It has designed more than 1,000 generative AI applications to improve inventory placement, demand forecasting, last-mile delivery, and customer service. It has also developed an AI model that lets robots navigate warehouses faster, and it's designing another model that will let human workers engage robots in natural language.
Wall Street expects Amazon's earnings to increase at 18% annually over the next three years. That makes the current valuation of 35 times earnings look relatively reasonable, especially because the company beat the consensus earnings estimate by an average of 25% over the past eight quarters. I agree with Jim Cramer. Patient investors should feel comfortable buying a position in Amazon today.
2. Uber Technologies
Uber operates not only the largest ride-sharing platform in the world, but also one of the largest food delivery platforms. Integrating those services into a common mobile app lets Uber efficiently acquire new customers by cross-promoting its mobility services to delivery users and its delivery services to mobility users.
While not a traditional AI stock, Uber uses machine learning to efficiently match and route drivers, provide customer support, and personalize advertising. In addition, leadership in ride-sharing makes Uber the perfect partner for autonomous vehicle (AV) companies that want to scale a robotaxi businesses.
Uber already works with 20 AV companies. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says, "Uber can deliver the lowest operational costs for our AV partners because we are leaps and bounds ahead on every aspect of the go-to-market capabilities that are critical for commercialization." Some of the most consequential partnerships are:
Alphabet's Waymo offers robotaxi rides through Uber in Phoenix; Austin, Texas;, and Atlanta.
Avride offers robotaxi rides through Uber in Dallas.
WeRide offers robotaxi rides through Uber in the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai) and Saudi Arabia (Riyadh). The companies plan to add about 15 more cities in the next five years.
Nvidia provides hardware, sensors, and software through its Hyperion platform that Uber partners, including Stellantis, use to build AVs. Uber aims to deploy 100,000 robotaxis within a few years.
Straits Research estimates that the ride-sharing market will grow at 21% annually through 2033, and Grand View Research estimates the robotaxi market will grow at 99% annually over the same period. Uber should be a major beneficiary in both cases. Morgan Stanley analysts think the company will account for 22% of U.S. robotaxi trips by 2032, which would put it in third place behind Waymo and Tesla.
Wall Street expects Uber's earnings to increase at 26% annually over the next three years. That makes the current valuation of 10 times earnings look cheap, especially when Uber beat the consensus earnings estimate in six of the past eight quarters. Investors with a time horizon of at least three years should buy a position today.
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Jim Cramer Says Buy 2 AI Stocks Up 190% and 230% Since Early 2023

Key Points
Form 13Fs provide investors with a concise snapshot of the stocks Wall Street's savviest fund managers have been buying and selling.
Viking Global Investors' Ole Andreas Halvorsen completely exited his fund's positions in Nvidia and Amazon -- and profit-taking may explain only part of the story.
Meanwhile, Halvorsen scooped up over 2.4 million shares of a cash-generating powerhouse during the third quarter that's historically inexpensive.
Data is the fuel that keeps Wall Street's engine humming along. The issue for investors is that there's often more data available than they can possibly digest. Between earnings season -- the six-week period each quarter where most S&P 500 companies report their operating results -- and near-daily economic data releases, it's easy for something important to fall through the cracks.
For instance, investors might have overlooked the flurry of Form 13F filings in mid-November. A 13F is a required filing no later than 45 days following the end of a quarter for institutional investors with at least $100 million in assets under management. These filings intricately detail the stocks Wall Street's brightest money managers bought and sold in the latest quarter (in this instance, the quarter ended Sept. 30).
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Although the newly retired Warren Buffett has long been the most-followed billionaire fund manager on Wall Street, he's far from the only billionaire investor known to make waves. For example, Viking Global Investors' chief, Ole Andreas Halvorsen, has a history of outperforming the stock market's major indexes.
But the biggest surprise you'll find in Halvorsen's fund, which is overseeing close to $39 billion in assets under management, is his approach with members of the trillion-dollar club. During the September-ended quarter, Halvorsen completely jettisoned his fund's stakes in artificial intelligence (AI) titans Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), while making another trillion-dollar company a new top-five holding.
Viking Global Investors' billionaire boss shows Nvidia and Amazon to the door
For most billionaire investors, members of the "Magnificent Seven" are commonly held stocks. These are seven of the most influential businesses on Wall Street that possess one or more sustainable moats. But for Ole Andreas Halvorsen, two of these leading businesses were given the heave-ho.
During the third quarter, Viking Global's billionaire boss dumped all 3,897,092 shares of Amazon (previously the fund's eighth-largest holding) and sent all 3,681,935 shares of Nvidia (previously the 26th-largest holding by market value) to the chopping block.
Simple profit-taking may explain why Halvorsen oversaw big-time selling in two stocks that are widely held by other billionaires and everyday investors. The average stock in Viking Global's portfolio has been held for less than 19 months, which indicates Halvorsen isn't afraid to cash in his fund's chips when presented with the opportunity.
The worry is that there may be more nefarious reasons that Halvorsen showed Nvidia and Amazon to the door.
For instance, there's skepticism about the sustainability of the AI revolution. While most investors recognize the long-term potential of this technology, historical precedent shows that every game-changing technology has endured an early stage bubble over the last three decades. Investors consistently overestimate the adoption and/or optimization rates of innovations, leading to lofty expectations that go unmet. If an AI bubble were to form and burst, graphics processing unit titan Nvidia would be hit especially hard.
Another possible reason for this selling is Halvorsen's displeasure with the valuations of Nvidia and Amazon amid an already pricey stock market. Historically, a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio above 30 for a company at the forefront of a next-big-thing trend is indicative of a bubble. Nvidia's P/S ratio briefly surpassed 30 in early November.
As for Amazon, it's inexpensive relative to its forward cash flow potential, but quite pricey based on the traditional price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. Halvorsen and his top advisors may have had little interest in paying a P/E ratio of 34 for Amazon.
Ole Andreas Halvorsen has a new favorite trillion-dollar stock
However, Viking Global's chief investor has also done his fair share of buying. The fund's most recent 13F shows that Halvorsen oversaw the opening of 15 new positions during the third quarter, none of which looms larger than trillion-dollar titan Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).
During the September-ended quarter, Viking Global Investors acquired 2,429,412 shares of Microsoft, worth almost $1.26 billion. This purchase slots Microsoft in as the fund's fifth-largest holding and accounts for 3.2% of invested assets.
Make no mistake about it -- Microsoft's future is very much reliant on the success of artificial intelligence. Azure, the company's cloud infrastructure service platform, is incorporating generative AI and large language model solutions to attract new clients, retain existing subscribers, and increase its already robust subscription pricing power. Azure's constant-currency growth rate in Microsoft's fiscal first quarter (ended Sept. 30) was a scorching-hot 39%.
Given the potential for an AI bubble-bursting event, Microsoft's stock may be exposed to downside pressure. The caveat is that AI application companies are likely to endure less pain than AI hardware providers like Nvidia.
The silver lining for Microsoft is that it's far more than just an AI stock. While cloud services and AI tend to hog all the glory, legacy segments, Windows and Office, continue to generate high margins and an abundance of operating cash flow. Even though these segments are well past their glory days, they've retained significant market share and provide Microsoft with cash that can be used to invest in several high-growth initiatives, including AI, cloud computing, and quantum computing.
Speaking of cash, Microsoft has more than it knows what to do with. It closed out September with $102 billion in combined cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments, and generated $45 billion in net cash from its operating activities in just the first three months of its fiscal year. This level of cash generation enables the company to conduct buybacks, pay a sizable dividend, and lean on acquisitions as a steady part of its corporate diet.
Lastly, Viking Global's billionaire boss may be enticed by Microsoft's comparatively attractive valuation. Its forward P/E of 25 marks a 16% discount to its average forward P/E over the trailing half-decade.
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Billionaire Ole Andreas Halvorsen Dumped His $39 Billion Fund's Stakes in Nvidia and Amazon for Another Trillion-Dollar Superstar

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Chicago, IL – January 29, 2026 – Stocks in this week’s article are Micron Technology, Inc. MU and NVIDIA Corp. NVDA.
Up 30%+ in 2025, 2 Profitable Semiconductor Stocks to Buy in 2026
Now that 2026 is underway, investors should focus on companies that generate solid returns after covering all operating and non-operating expenses. As a result, profitable businesses tend to be more attractive than the money-losing ones. To assess profitability, investors should rely on accounting ratios that focus on the most widely used measure of a company’s bottom-line performance.
With that in mind, two semiconductor stocks emerged as the top profitable picks, backed by robust net income ratios and significant upside potential. Incidentally, they are Micron Technology, Inc. and NVIDIA Corp., whose shares have soared 239.1% and 38.8%, respectively, last year.
Net Income Ratio Explained
The net income ratio indicates a company's exact profitability level. It reflects the percentage of net income to total sales revenues. Using the net income ratio, one can determine a firm’s effectiveness in meeting operating and non-operating expenses from revenues. A higher net income ratio usually implies a company’s ability to generate sufficient revenues and manage all business functions effectively.
These few parameters have narrowed the universe of more than 7,685 stocks to only seven.
Here are two of the seven stocks that qualified for the screening:
Micron Technology
Micron Technology is a provider of memory and storage products globally. The 12-month net profit margin of MU is 28.2% (read more: Micron at 11.7 P/E: One of 2026's Best Buying Opportunities).
NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a global computing infrastructure company offering graphics, compute and networking solutions. The 12-month net profit margin of NVDA is 53% (read more: Micron vs. NVIDIA: One AI Chip Stock is Poised to Win Big in 2026).
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AMD and Nvidia Stock Investors Got Amazing News from China

Key Points
CHAT charges a much higher expense ratio but has delivered a stronger 1-year return
XLK is far larger and more diversified within the technology sector, while CHAT tilts toward generative AI and applies an ESG screen
CHAT has exhibited higher volatility and a deeper recent drawdown, reflecting its concentrated and thematic approach
The State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEMKT:XLK) stands out for its scale and broad technology exposure, while the Roundhill Investments - Generative AI & Technology ETF (NYSEMKT:CHAT) takes a narrower, actively managed approach with higher costs and a thematic AI focus.
Both the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEMKT:XLK) and the Roundhill Investments - Generative AI & Technology ETF (NYSEMKT:CHAT) target the technology space, but their strategies and risk profiles differ. XLK offers diversified exposure to the largest U.S. tech names, while CHAT zooms in on generative artificial intelligence and related themes, actively picking stocks it believes will benefit most from this trend. This comparison unpacks their differences in cost, performance, holdings, and risk to help investors see which may better fit their goals.
Snapshot (cost & size)
Issuer
SPDR
Roundhill Investments
Expense ratio
0.08%
0.75%
1-yr return (as of 2026-01-27)
30.91%
63.06%
AUM
$92.48 billion
$995.24 million
Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from five-year weekly returns. The 1-yr return represents total return over the trailing 12 months.
CHAT’s expense ratio is meaningfully higher than XLK’s, making XLK the more affordable option for cost-conscious investors.
Performance & risk comparison
Max drawdown (2 y)
-25.65%
-31.35%
CHAT’s recent returns have outpaced XLK, but this comes with higher risk. Its larger drawdown and elevated beta signal greater volatility, which could be a trade-off for investors drawn to its AI focus.
What's inside
CHAT is an actively managed fund with 52 holdings and a mandate to capture the growth of generative artificial intelligence. The portfolio leans heavily into technology (85%), with smaller allocations to communication services and consumer cyclicals. Its top holdings include Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), and the fund applies an ESG screen. At 2.7 years old, it is relatively new and intentionally concentrated around the AI theme.
XLK, by contrast, offers broad technology sector exposure with 70 holdings, covering nearly the entire U.S. tech landscape. Its top positions are Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), reflecting the sector’s giants. XLK does not apply an ESG screen or thematic tilt, providing a more traditional approach to tech investing.
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What this means for investors
Many investors reach for AI funds expecting broad tech exposure, without realizing how much concentration they are taking on. That distinction sits at the heart of the decision between the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund and the Roundhill Generative AI and Technology ETF, two funds that live in the same sector but reflect very different views on how to capture growth.
XLK is built as a core holding and offers broad access to the largest U.S. technology companies through a low-cost and rules-based structure. It spreads risk across established leaders whose earnings power drives long-term returns. CHAT takes a much narrower approach. It actively selects companies tied to generative AI and concentrates capital around a single theme. The trade-off is straightforward: XLK prioritizes scale and liquidity, while CHAT prioritizes thematic focus and the potential of outsized gains when AI enthusiasm runs hot.
For investors, XLK suits you if you are looking for steady exposure to tech without tying outcomes to a single narrative, while CHAT fits investors who are intentionally seeking AI exposure and willing to accept sharper swings and higher costs. The choice ultimately comes down to whether you want tech exposure anchored in broad earnings power or tied to continued confidence in a single trend.
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XLK vs. CHAT: Broad Tech Exposure or a Focused AI Bet?

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Intel stock soared following investments from the U.S. government and Nvidia.
Investors were disappointed with its first-quarter guidance.
The world's leading chip manufacturer, TSMC, continues to deliver strong results and is affordably priced.
After years of lagging the market, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has suddenly found new life.
The stock has more than doubled over the last six months, even after its sharp pullback following disappointing guidance in its fourth-quarter earnings report.
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Intel has rebounded with the help of the U.S. government, which took a 9.9% stake in the stock last August, which was followed by Nvidia investing $5 billion in the chip-maker in September.
Both moves gave Intel much-needed capital to continue investing in its foundry business and to develop new AI products. It also showed confidence in the company's turnaround prospects under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who has cut costs, streamlined the business, scaled back on capital expenditures, and is aiming to overhaul the culture, making it less bureaucratic and more like a start-up.
However, the recent pullback on its earnings report shows that the stock may be overbought and that expectations seem to have outrun the current reality of the business. Intel is still struggling to grow and turn a profit. Revenue fell 4% in the fourth quarter to $13.7 billion, and it reported a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) loss of $591 million, though it was profitable on an adjusted basis.
For the first quarter, it expects revenue of $11.7 billion-$12.7 billion, which is a sharp sequential decline, and sees adjusted earnings per share of just break-even.
For investors looking to capitalize on the AI infrastructure boom, there's a more reliable stock to buy here. In fact, it's a chief rival of Intel. I'm talking about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (NYSE: TSM), the world's leading contract manufacturer of semiconductors.
A track record of excellence
TSMC, as the company is often known, isn't a household name like Intel. It doesn't make branded products, and it's based in Taiwan rather than the U.S.
However, the company is one of the most valuable in the world at a market cap of $1.8 trillion, and it's a linchpin in the global economy as it's the primary chip manufacturer for tech titans like Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and others. It manufactures more than half of the contract chips in the world and is estimated to account for 90% of the advanced contract chips.
That gives it a strong competitive advantage, and its results back that up as it's turned in phenomenal growth and profit margins during the AI boom.
In its fourth quarter, revenue rose 25.5% to $33.7 billion, and it reported an operating margin of 54%, or $18.2 billion in operating income.
TSMC now makes 77% of its revenue from advanced chips, which it defines as those that are 7 nanometers (nm) or less. The stock also trades at an attractive valuation at a price-to-earnings ratio of 32, making it only slightly more expensive than the S&P 500. Historically, the stock has traded at a discount because it's based in Taiwan and some investors fear that China could invade the island territory.
TSMC stock has also been a longtime winner on the stock market, up more than 1,000% over the last decade.
Intel vs. TSMC
Intel operates in two primary segments: its products division, which refers to its chip designs, and its foundry division, which is focused on manufacturing. Historically, the company has manufactured chips solely for itself, but it restructured its business in 2021 to open its foundry to outside customers and has signed up some new customers, including Amazon.
Intel has staked the future of the foundry business on advanced processes like 18A (18 angstroms or 1.8nm), which it recently launched. 18A and the upcoming 14A, which is expected to enter production in 2028, have the potential to make Intel a real competitor to TSMC. However, a meaningful challenge from Intel is likely years away, and Intel has been losing billions of dollars a year on the foundry business as it builds out advanced processes in an attempt to establish a third-party manufacturing business.
At this point, Intel stock is more expensive than TSMC, even though its revenue is basically flat and it's losing money on a GAAP basis. TSMC, on the other hand, expects to grow revenue by a compound annual rate of around 25% through 2029, and it's currently keeping more than half of its revenue as operating income.
While Intel's turnaround may be appealing as a story, TSMC is the much safer bet here and should continue to beat the market as long as the AI boom continues.
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Forget Intel: This AI Infrastructure Stock is a Better Bet for 2026

Key Points
Broadcom’s stock has surged 2,620% over the past decade.
Its AI chip business is growing like a weed.
It’s networking, optical, and infrastructure software segments complement that growth.
As the artificial intelligence (AI) market expands, more companies are upgrading their data centers to handle the skyrocketing usage of AI applications. According to Fortune Business Insights, the global AI infrastructure market will expand at a CAGR of 29.1% from 2025 to 2032.
What's the best chip play on the AI infrastructure boom?
One of the simplest ways to profit from that secular boom is through Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO), which produces custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for processing AI tasks. When installed at scale, these chips can process AI inference tasks at a more cost-efficient rate than Nvidia's (NASDAQ: NVDA) data center GPUs.
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Many hyperscalers -- including Alphabet's Google and Meta Platforms -- are installing Broadcom's custom AI accelerators to reduce their dependence on Nvidia's data center GPUs. Broadcom also bundles those chips with its own networking switches, optical equipment, and infrastructure software to help those tech giants efficiently expand their data centers.
In fiscal 2025 (which ended last November), Broadcom's AI chip revenue rose 65% to $20 billion, accounting for 31% of its top line and offsetting the slower growth of its non-AI chips and infrastructure software business. From fiscal 2025 to fiscal 2028, analysts expect its revenue and earnings per share (EPS) to grow at CAGRs of 38% and 47%, respectively, as the AI market expands and its non-AI businesses stabilize in a warmer macro environment.
What are its upcoming catalysts?
Broadcom expects to generate $60 billion to $90 billion in annualized AI chip revenues by the end of fiscal 2027, with most of that growth coming from just three hyperscale customers. It will also sell more networking and optical chips for the broader AI market. At the same time, the stable growth of its infrastructure software business will offset the cyclical choppiness of its chipmaking business.
Over the past decade, Broadcom has acquired numerous companies -- including CA Technologies, Symantec's enterprise security division, and the cloud software giant VMware -- to diversify its business. It will likely continue to make bold acquisitions for the foreseeable future.
Broadcom's stock looks reasonably valued at 30 times next year's earnings, and it still has plenty of irons in the fire. It's not attracting as much attention as Nvidia, which generates most of its revenue from its AI data center GPUs. Still, it's a more diversified way to profit from the growth of the AI infrastructure market. Its forward dividend yield of 0.8% won't impress income investors, but its low payout ratio of 49% gives it plenty of room for future dividend hikes.
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