Texas Instruments

Vicor (VICR) stock has more than quadrupled over the past year, yet at about $224 it sits roughly 41% below its 52-week high. The opportunity is plain: demand for its power modules, from AI data centers to defense, is filling its first chip fab. The catch is that the growth you would pay for depends on new fabs whose sites Vicor only bought in September.

Applied Materials (AMAT) runs a services business, Applied Global Services, that grew 22% from a year earlier in its latest quarter. You probably think of the company as a seller of chipmaking machines, a business that rises and falls with factory spending. The stock is down 27% over the past three months. So how large is the services business.

MCHP gains 17% YTD as demand, inventory normalization and data-center growth improve, but supply, debt and valuation risks remain.

Heartland Advisors, an investment management company, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter for “Heartland Opportunistic Value Equity Strategy”. The letter can be downloaded here. Second-quarter indices signaled a broadening market, but strong performance was mainly focused on a limited range of technology infrastructure and semiconductor stocks. The strategy returned 12.32% in the quarter, underperforming the […]

The average brokerage recommendation (ABR) for Texas Instruments (TXN) 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?

Vicor (VICR) stock gained 21.2% in the week to Monday, Sep 21, while the S&P 500 rose 1.9%. The spark was a new license for its AI power technology. The company said what that license adds to its sales only after Monday's close, when it raised its revenue outlook. So the shares paid for the deal before Vicor put a number on it.