Expensive stocks typically earn their valuations through superior growth rates that other companies simply can’t match. The flip side though is that these lofty expectations make them particularly susceptible to drawdowns when market sentiment shifts.

FTXL has handed holders a stunning run, but the modified-equal-weight label that made the fund feel safe may be hiding a concentration problem that turns one bad earnings call into a portfolio event.

Paul Tudor Jones has a growing put position and a now-liquidated common stock position in Applied Materials. Is he bearish on AI?

Chip equipment stocks are selling off hard even as Treasury yields drop and the broader market climbs, and the disconnect points to something more troubling than a rates problem lurking beneath the AI infrastructure trade.

The average brokerage recommendation (ABR) for KLA (KLAC) is equivalent to a Buy. The overly optimistic recommendations of Wall Street analysts make the effectiveness of this highly sought-after metric questionable. So, is it worth buying the stock?

Chip equipment stocks have surged far ahead of the broader tech market in 2026, but a single week of doubts about AI spending just wiped billions in gains across the group. Here is what the gap between Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA signals about where the trade goes next.

Joel Greenblatt built Gotham Asset Management on concentrated value bets, so his latest 13F filing caught analysts off guard with moves that look less like a stock-picker's conviction and more like someone quietly bracing for impact.

ONTO's $720M Rigaku stake adds X-ray process control to its portfolio, targeting a roughly $1B market as chip structures grow more complex.

Onto Innovation's AI-driven demand, rising estimates and margin gains strengthen its outlook, but a rich valuation leaves little room for execution misses.

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Wall Street's most dominant process control chipmaker just dropped nearly 10% in a month despite a five-quarter beat streak, and one high-conviction analyst sees a gap forming that the rest of the Street has not yet priced in.

Top hedge funds quietly rotated out of one chip giant and piled into another last quarter, and the price action since then suggests they knew something. Here is what Druckenmiller, Loeb, and Tepper actually did with their semiconductor books.

A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after a wave of upbeat earnings reports and bullish forecasts from key industry players signaled robust and sustained demand for artificial intelligence technology.

Applied Materials just dropped 6% premarket despite posting record revenue and guiding for 51% growth, and the reason comes down to a two-week rally that left almost no room for anything short of perfect. Whether peers like Lam Research and KLA get dragged down with it tells you everything about where the semiconductor equipment trade stands right now.

Applied Materials Inc. delivered an estimate-beating forecast that still got a lukewarm reaction from investors, a sign of the lofty hopes surrounding a company that’s key to the AI boom.