On Monday, the AI-driven theme in U.S. equities continued its rebound—and this time, it was more than just a minor recovery.
Among the 71 tracked AI-related stocks,70 stocks rose while 1 declined, with a sample mean return of +4.11% and a median return of +3.41%.。
The market action was very clear: AI-related capital has returned, and its focus is unmistakable—memory/storage, ASICs, NeoCloud, optical interconnects, and semiconductor equipment.
This time, the strongest performer wasn’t the widely recognized NVDA.
By sector:
– Memory / HBM / Hard Drives: average gain of +8.59%,ranking first outright
– NeoCloud / AI computing capacity leasing: average gain of +6.19%, showing renewed elasticity
– Chip design / AI ASICs / GPUs:average gain of +5.62%, with MRVL, AMD, and ARM continuing to rally
– Optical communications / AI networking / switching interconnects averaged +4.71%, with ALAB, COHR, and CRDO continuing to show strength
– Mag7 / AI capex buyers averaged +2.65%; they rose, but clearly weren’t the strongest group
The all-time high (ATH) perspective is even more dramatic.
Sixteen AI-related stocks closed at new all-time highs today: AMD, ARM, UMC, AMAT, LRCX, KLAC, TER, ONTO, MU, SNDK, WDC, STX, ALAB, SMH, SOXX, DRAM.
Today we focus on three major AI stocks: NVDA, M...