If you're curious what I'm doing this weekend:
I'm trying to piece together who has Powerchip (PSMC) wafer allocations and also serves DDR2/DDR3 markets.
then mapping those allocations against operating income inflections / MC to see which ones are most compelling.
So far I found ESMT to be the most interesting, since a lot of the others trade around 4 p/e based on most recent Q2's annualized (ESMT was 1.9x based on July)...
But THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS July's ESMT earnings gives a good hint about the other's Q3 operating income reports.
The reason I think this trade hasn't been very popular so far is:
> Barely anyone knows about it + limited coverage, esp. around allocations
> High risk of normalized prices, but I do think it tightens further throughout 2027 from my research.
> Hard to model effects of PSMC 45% wafer hikes + inventory (if its sustainable) (I did the math on ESMT, but haven't done so about the rest), which others might be more uncertain about.
> If July was one-off or not (if August earnings delivers $100m+ net income, I think it's going to cook super hard).
But I think markets would do all the price discovery before the earnings so that's where I'm just taking a guess here.
So I'm just going down line by line to double check and I did find a few I missed, so just going through their filings.
I do think this theme can cook given the extreme DDR2 price hikes recently + Winbond withdrawing, so I'm doing heavy research into it.
If you're curious how my current AI portfolio is roughly structured, kinda looks like this rn (not a recommendation):
- 50% photonics/networking
- 25% memory
- 10% robotics + upstream
- bunch of misc (energy, MLCCs, software, non-ai, random exposure like GCS, QD, substrate, etc)
on ~1.3x share only margin, probably only 2.3% of my portfolio is options.
The individual names I'm in are high-beta








