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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 47.71 For Business Accounts Only

Vermilion Compass: Weekly Equity Strategy

Play the Hand You're Dealt

We continue to play the hand we have been dealt; in this market that refers to riding the trend higher on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, and being overweight large-cap growth, considering the Russell 1000 Growth vs. Value ratio is breaking out from a 4-year base. This suggests growth's outperformance is likely to continue in the months ahead. Historically, growth outperforms during bull markets, so none of this should come as a surprise. Market dynamics continue to decisively point to a risk-on environment, and our bullish outlook (since early-November 2023) remains intact. The latest bullish developments include the equal-weighted Nasdaq 100 (QQQE) breaking out from a 4-month base, while cap-weighted Consumer Discretionary (XLY) displays a 6-month base breakout and RS is reversing its YTD downtrend... see charts below.
Underlyings
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company. The company primarily provides x86 microprocessors, as standalone devices or as incorporated into an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, graphics processing units (GPUs), data center and personnel GPUs, and development services; server and embedded processors, semi-custom System-on-Chip products, development services and technology for game consoles. The company also licenses portions of its intellectual property portfolio. The company's segments are: Computing and Graphics, which consists of desktop, notebooks, commercial, and chipsets products; and Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom, which includes server processors, and embedded P\processors products.

Ambarella Inc.

Analog Devices Inc.

Analog Devices is an analog technology company. The company designs, manufactures, and markets a portfolio of solutions, including integrated circuits, algorithms, software, and subsystems. The company's analog products include data converter that translate real-world analog signals into digital data and also translate digital data into analog signals, amplifiers that condition analog signals, and power management and reference products that include functions such as power conversion, driver monitoring, sequencing and energy management. The company's digital signal processing products are designed to execute software programs, or algorithms, associated with processing digitized real-time, real-world data.

ASML Holding N.V.

Broadcom Inc.

Broadcom, via its subsidiaries, is a designer, developer and supplier of a range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. The company develops semiconductor devices with a focus on digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor based devices and analog III-V based products. The company provides products that are used in end products such as enterprise and data center networking, home connectivity, set-top boxes, broadband access, telecommunication equipment, smartphones and base stations, data center servers and storage systems, and factory automation. The company has three segments: semiconductor solutions, infrastructure software and intellectual property licensing.

Cirrus Logic Inc.

Cirrus Logic focuses on low-power integrated circuits (ICs) for audio, voice and other signal-processing applications. The company's product lines include: Portable Products, including codecs, which are chips that integrate analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) into a single IC, smart codecs, which are codecs with digital signal processing integrated, amplifiers, micro-electromechanical systems microphones, haptic drivers, standalone digital signal processors, and its SoundClear? technology, which includes a portfolio of tools, software and algorithms; and Non-Portable and Other Products, which include ICs, codecs, ADCs, DACs, digital interfaces and amplifiers.

Diodes Incorporated

Diodes is a manufacturer and supplier of application-specific standard products. The company's product line includes: discrete semiconductor products, which include performance Schottky rectifiers, performance Schottky diodes, Zener diodes and performance Zener diodes; analog products, which include power management devices; standard logic products including complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices and analog switches; multichip products and co-packaged discrete, analog and mixed-signal silicon in miniature packages; silicon and silicon epitaxial wafers used in manufacturing these products; and Frequency Control Products, which are electronic components that provide frequency references.

Himax Technologies Inc. Sponsored ADR

Impinj Inc.

Impinj enables wireless connectivity for everyday items, delivering each items' identity, location and authenticity to business and consumer applications. The company's platform comprises endpoint integrated circuits, or ICs, connectivity and software that together deliver item data to business and consumer applications. The company's platform spans endpoints, connectivity and software and provides wireless item connectivity and information delivery. The company sells endpoint ICs, reader ICs, reader modules, readers, gateways and software as well as provides development, service and license agreements.

Intel Corporation

Intel is a data-centric company. The company's operating segments are: Data Center Group, which develops platforms for compute, storage, and network functions; Internet of Things Group, which facilitates its customers creating, storing, and processing data; Mobileye, which provides assistance and automation solutions; Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, which provides memory and storage products based on Intel? Optane? technology and Intel? 3D NAND technology; Programmable Solutions Group, which provides programmable semiconductors; and Client Computing Group, which connects people to data, allowing each person to focus, create, and engage in ways that unlock their individual potential.

MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc.

MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of analog semiconductor solutions that enable internet applications, the cloud connected apps economy and the networked battlefield across the radio frequency (RF), microwave, millimeterwave and lightwave spectrum. The company's primary markets are: Telecom, which includes carrier infrastructure like long-haul/metro, 5G and fiber-to-the-X/passive optical network; Data Centers, enabled by a portfolio of analog ICs and photonic components for high speed optical module consumers; and Industrial and Defense, which includes military and commercial radar, RF jammers, electronic and countermeasures.

MARVELL TECHNOLOGY INC

MaxLinear inc

MaxLinear is a provider of radio frequency, analog, and mixed-signal communications systems-on-chip solutions for the connected home, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications. The company's products are integrated into a range of electronic devices, including cable, terrestrial, and satellite video set-top boxes and gateways, cable DOCSIS data and voice gateways, hybrid analog and digital televisions, direct broadcast satellite outdoor units, optical modules for data center, metro, and long-haul transport network applications, RF transceivers and modem solutions, wireline connectivity devices, and power management and interface products.

Micron Technology Inc.

Micron Technology provides memory and storage solutions. The company's portfolio of memory and storage technologies include Dynamic Random Access Memory, Not And, 3D XPoint? memory, and Not Or. The company's segments are: Compute and Networking Business, which includes memory products sold into client, cloud server, enterprise, graphics, and networking markets; Mobile Business, which includes memory products sold into smartphone and other mobile-device markets; Storage Business, which includes Solid-State Drives and component-level solutions sold into enterprise and cloud, client, and consumer storage markets; and Embedded Business, which includes memory and storage products.

NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA engages in graphics processing unit (GPU)-based visual computing and accelerated computing platforms. The company has two segments, GPU and Tegra Processor, which are based on a single underlying architecture. The company's GPU product brands are aimed at markets including GeForce for gamers; Quadro for designers; Tesla and DGX for artificial intelligence data scientists and big data researchers; and GRID for cloud-based visual computing users. The company's Tegra brand integrates an entire computer onto a single chip, and incorporates GPUs and multi-core CPUs to drive supercomputing for autonomous robots, drones, and cars, as well as for game consoles and mobile gaming and entertainment devices.

NXP Semiconductors NV

NXP Semiconductors is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged as a global semiconductor company and a long-standing supplier in the industry. Co. provides High-Performance Mixed-Signal and Standard Product solutions. Co.'s product solutions are used in automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications. Co. engages with original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and sell products in all major geographic regions.

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation Sponsored ADR

SiTime

SiTime is a provider of silicon timing systems. The company supplies oscillator products that are comprised of a MEMS resonator and clock IC that is integrated into a package, as well as standalone resonators. The company's products are designed to address a wide range of applications across a broad array of end markets. The company operates a fabless business model and leverages its global network of distributors and resellers to address the broad set of end markets that it serves.

SMART Global Holdings Inc.

SMART Global Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in application product development and support for customers in enterprise, government and original equipment manufacturer markets. In its specialty memory products business, the company designs and manufactures products, technical support and testing services. The company also designs and manufactures embedded and removable Flash memory products in various form factors and capacities incorporated into storage and hybrid memory solutions. Through Penguin Computing Inc., the company provides compute and storage system solutions to customers in financial services, energy, government, social media and education end markets.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Sponsored ADR

Texas Instruments Incorporated

Texas Instruments designs and makes semiconductors that it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers. The company has two reportable segments: Analog and Embedded Processing. The company's analog semiconductors change signals, such as sound, temperature, pressure or images to a stream of digital data. The company's analog segment primary product lines includes: power, signal chain, and high volume. The company's embedded processors are designed to handle specific tasks and can be optimized for various combinations of performance, power and cost, depending on the application. The company's embedded processing segment primary product lines includes: connected microcontrollers and processors.

Tower Semiconductor Ltd

Tower Semiconductor is a pure-play independent specialty foundry dedicated to the manufacturing of semiconductors. Typically, pure-play foundries do not offer products of their own, but focus on producing integrated circuits based on the design specifications of their customers. Co. manufactures semiconductors using advanced production processes for Co.'s customers primarily based on third party designs and Co.'s own proprietary designs. Co. offers the manufacture of integrated circuits with geometries ranging from 1.0 to 45-nanometers. Co. also provides design support and complementary technical services.

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Dave Nicoski

Ross LaDuke

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