Demand for data center capacity is skyrocketing thanks to AI.
Here are my top 10 stock picks that'll heavily benefit from the demand for AI compute capacity: 🧵
1. $NBIS
- Owns and operates data centers.
- Its cloud is custom-built for AI workloads.
- Recently entered $17 billion deal with Microsoft.
The revenue is on track to exceed $1 billion this year, with the target connected capacity of 100MW.
The management aims for 1GW contracted capacity by the end of next year.
Even if it can achieve just 2GW capacity by 2030, it can generate up to $20 billion ARR at the current GPU/per hour rates.
2. $IREN
- Expanding from Bitcoin mining to AI-cloud capacity.
- It's building 75MW of new capacity for AI this year.
- It's planning to add another 2GW next year.
It has substantial experience in the data center business due to its Bitcoin mining businesses.
Bitcoin mining operations are also extremely profitable and work as a cash cow to fund the venture into the AI cloud.
An increasing Bitcoin price can offset its expenditures and enable it to fund data center buildout without using too much leverage.
It occupies a distinguished position among the neo-cloud providers as it isn't as dependent on external funding as the others.
3. $ORCL
- It has 23 active data centers with 1.2GW capacity.
- Planning to grow the current installed capacity to 2GW.
- 47 more sites are currently under construction.
The company aims to reach 5GW contracted capacity by the end of next year.
Even if it can turn only 3GW of this into connected capacity by the end of 2026, it can generate $30 billion in revenue.
It recently announced skyrocketing bookings for its cloud platform and provided a cloud revenue guidance of $144 billion.
Though the stock reacted to that by jumping over 30%, it can still run another 30% if it can turn these bookings into real orders.
S&P 500 is trading near its highest valuations since the Covid Bubble, and the opportunities are naturally rare.
Here are 10 high-quality stocks that are still undervalued:
1. $UNH
P/E Ratio: 15
5-Year Revenue CAGR: 10%
Return on Capital Employed: 10.3%
Both medical costs and the activity rates increased beyond the industry's expectations this year.
$UNH suffered more from this trend as it had absorbed over 900,000 new members who came from other providers that refused to extend their coverage at the current prices.
It has filed for price increases for 98% of its plans for the next year, and they are implementing strict cost controls for the remainder of this year.
Superinvestors like Warren Buffett, Michael Burry, and Chris Davis bought the stock.
The management expects to return to growth next year, in which case, the stock can return to all-time highs, offering 58% upside from here with a limited downside potential.
2. $PYPL
P/E Ratio: 14
5-Year Revenue CAGR: 8.5%
Return on Capital Employed: 18.9%
It's trading near its lowest valuation in years.
The growth slowed down substantially last year, dipping around 1% in Q1 2025. However, it reaccelerated last quarter to 5%.
Management is actively buying back a lot of shares and pursuing new growth opportunities, especially in advertising and BNPL.
I think ads and BNPL can be big categories for $PYPL that can reaccelerate the growth to low-double-digits.
In any case, it has very consistent cash flows, and the downside from here is very limited.
3. $BABA
P/E Ratio: 18
5-Year Revenue CAGR: 11.6%
Return on Capital Employed: 5.5%
It stopped losing market share to other e-commerce players in China, and the international commerce segment is still growing really fast.
Yet, the biggest promise of $BABA is its cloud.
It's the largest cloud provider in Asia and the fourth largest in the world.
Demand for AI cloud services will skyrocket, and it's poised to capture the lion's share of the demand in Asia.
We already started to see this as its cloud segment growth accelerated from 18% to 26% YoY last quarter.
It's very attractive as a potential AI play at 18 times earnings.
The largest healthcare company in the world is going through tough times.
Healthcare, as an industry, is experiencing above forecasted costs and activity, eating into its profits.
This is a temporary headwind as they are already raising prices for the next year and tightening their underwriting standards. I believe it'll quickly recover next year.
Warren Buffett has also opened a multi-billion-dollar position.
If the performance recovers, it can easily double from here.