A highly volatile stock can deliver big gains - or just as easily wipe out a portfolio if things go south.
While some investors embrace risk, mistakes can be costly for those who aren’t prepared.
Super Micro has gotten torched over the last six months - since August 2025, its stock price has dropped 30.9% to $32.09 per share. This may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.
The artificial intelligence super-cycle, which has propelled equity markets to record highs for over three years, hit a significant roadblock on February 11, 2026. In a day characterized by high-volume selling and a sharp pivot in investor sentiment, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite plunged 3.8%, marking its worst single-session performance
Super Micro’s fourth quarter results drew a positive market reaction, as the company reported robust revenue growth driven by accelerating demand for AI infrastructure and large-scale data center solutions. Management highlighted that strong adoption of its Rack Scale AI and Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) contributed to the outperformance, supported by rapid deployment cycles and expanding partnerships with major cloud customers. CEO Charles Liang credited these results to Super Micro’s ability to deliver “large and complex AI clusters” and the effectiveness of its new preconfigured DCBBS offerings, which helped customers reduce deployment times and operational costs.
As the global technology sector braces for the upcoming earnings season, all eyes are fixed on NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), which is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 results on February 25, 2026. With less than three weeks to go, a wave of bullish sentiment has swept across
The landscape of artificial intelligence underwent a tectonic shift at CES 2026 as NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) officially took the wraps off its "Vera Rubin" architecture. Named after the legendary astronomer who provided the first evidence for dark matter, the Rubin platform is not merely an incremental update but a complete reimagining of the AI data [...]
As of February 2026, the artificial intelligence industry has reached a decisive thermal tipping point. The era of the air-cooled data center, a staple of the computing world for over half a century, is rapidly being phased out in favor of advanced liquid cooling architectures. This transition is no longer a matter of choice or [...]
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) has officially crossed a historic threshold, reporting a record-shattering fourth quarter for 2025 that cements its position as the premier alternative to Nvidia in the global AI arms race. With total quarterly revenue reaching $10.27 billion—a 34% increase year-over-year—the company’s strategic pivot toward a "data center first" model has reached [...]
Business services providers thrive by solving complex operational challenges for their clients, allowing them to focus on their secret sauce. But cutbacks in corporate spending and the threat of new AI products have kept sentiment in check,
and over the past six months, the industry’s 3.8% return has trailed the S&P 500 by 4.6 percentage points.
SANTA CLARA, CA — As of February 5, 2026, the landscape of the artificial intelligence data center market has been fundamentally redrawn. Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) has successfully completed its integration of ZT Systems, a $4.9 billion acquisition that marked the company's most aggressive move to date to dismantle
As of February 5, 2026, the financial world has its eyes fixed on a single number: $180. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), the undisputed heavyweight champion of the artificial intelligence era, is currently testing this critical psychological and technical support level. After a period of "coiling" price action that defined the
As of February 5, 2026, few companies embody the sheer velocity and volatility of the artificial intelligence era quite like Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI). Once a relatively obscure provider of high-performance server solutions, Supermicro has ascended to become the indispensable "rack-scale" architect of the AI revolution. The company is currently at a critical [...]
