This stock may have plenty of room to run. Over the past few years, certain companies have emerged as clear artificial intelligence (AI) winners of today and tomorrow. These have been players like Nvidia, which designs the key element needed to power AI -- the AI chip -- as well as companies that offer cloud services, or the infrastructure needed to run AI workloads. These are giants such as Amazo...
This stock may have plenty of room to run. Over the past few years, certain companies have emerged as clear artificial intelligence (AI) winners of today and tomorrow. These have been players like Nvidia, which designs the key element needed to power AI -- the AI chip -- as well as companies that offer cloud services, or the infrastructure needed to run AI workloads. These are giants such as Amazon as well as smaller AI-focused companies like CoreWeave. In any case, these AI players have garnered a great deal of attention from investors and Wall Street analysts. But there exists an AI winner that Wall Street may be ignoring. Though analysts expect this stock to advance and generally hold a buy rating on it, this player hasn't dominated the headlines like the companies I mentioned above. So it may not be on the radar screens of many investors. Let's take a look at this hidden AI winner. An expert in data storage The company I'm talking about has been around for more than 50 years, serving the technology world with a basic element, but one that is essential for computing to take place and certainly for AI to unfold. This player is Western Digital (WDC +8.00%), an expert in storage innovation. Western Digital sells hard disk drive (HDD) based storage devices and systems -- and this is something that's clearly in great demand in the age of AI. The ability to store data has been essential in the training of models, and moving forward, this will continue to be crucial as these models are put to work to handle real-world problems. HDD offer cloud companies an economical and proven way to store data -- and both of these points are key. Cloud players are investing billions -- and potentially trillions -- of dollars to build out data centers, so they are looking for ways to keep costs in check and deliver reliability to customers. Western Digital is a confirmed leader, with "much of the world's data stored on Western Digital products," as the company said in its latest annual...
After years of underperformance, this fintech leader could be ready for a strong run. A room full of investors will almost never agree on the single "best" stock to buy, since things like long-term goals, investment horizon, preferences, starting capital, and other factors all affect which companies people gravitate toward. But what if we put a restriction on the price variable? The job gets a lit...
After years of underperformance, this fintech leader could be ready for a strong run. A room full of investors will almost never agree on the single "best" stock to buy, since things like long-term goals, investment horizon, preferences, starting capital, and other factors all affect which companies people gravitate toward. But what if we put a restriction on the price variable? The job gets a little easier. With only $20 to spend on at least a single share of a corporation -- a price point where few of the most popular stocks trade -- and with the stipulation that we're looking for a company capable of performing well over the long run, I'd put that money in Adyen (ADYE.Y +0.88%), a fintech specialist. Here's why. Adyen's business is rock-solid Adyen is a leading fintech company whose payment services have attracted many notable businesses. That's because Adyen can help its customers process payments across their online and brick-and-mortar stores and across different geographical regions -- something that would typically require a fragmented set of intermediaries -- all on a single integrated platform. The company also provides risk management and fraud protection services, all without relying on intermediaries. Adyen generates consistent revenue and earnings and processes over $1 trillion in payment volume every year. The company also benefits from a strong economic moat thanks to switching costs. Adyen's core operations are strong, which is, in itself, a solid reason to consider the stock. Expand OTC : ADYE.Y Adyen Today's Change ( 0.88 %) $ 0.13 Current Price $ 14.90 Key Data Points Market Cap $47B Day's Range $ 14.75 - $ 15.03 52wk Range $ 13.14 - $ 19.94 Volume 957K Avg Vol 854K Gross Margin 83.34 % Strong growth prospects Adyen has not performed well in recent years. The stock has basically moved sideways since 2022 or so. Revenue growth slowed post-pandemic, margins dropped at some point, and the company encountered stiffer competition, including PayPal. Ev...
Key Points This company makes a product that plays a key role in the AI story. Revenue and profitability on sales have been on the rise. 10 stocks we like better than Western Digital › Over the past few years, certain companies have emerged as clear artificial intelligence (AI) winners of today and tomorrow. These have been players like Nvidia, which designs the key element needed to power AI -- t...
Key Points This company makes a product that plays a key role in the AI story. Revenue and profitability on sales have been on the rise. 10 stocks we like better than Western Digital › Over the past few years, certain companies have emerged as clear artificial intelligence (AI) winners of today and tomorrow. These have been players like Nvidia, which designs the key element needed to power AI -- the AI chip -- as well as companies that offer cloud services, or the infrastructure needed to run AI workloads. These are giants such as Amazon as well as smaller AI-focused companies like CoreWeave. In any case, these AI players have garnered a great deal of attention from investors and Wall Street analysts. But there exists an AI winner that Wall Street may be ignoring. Though analysts expect this stock to advance and generally hold a buy rating on it, this player hasn't dominated the headlines like the companies I mentioned above. So it may not be on the radar screens of many investors. Let's take a look at this hidden AI winner. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » An expert in data storage The company I'm talking about has been around for more than 50 years, serving the technology world with a basic element, but one that is essential for computing to take place and certainly for AI to unfold. This player is Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC), an expert in storage innovation. Western Digital sells hard disk drive (HDD) based storage devices and systems -- and this is something that's clearly in great demand in the age of AI. The ability to store data has been essential in the training of models, and moving forward, this will continue to be crucial as these models are put to work to handle real-world problems. HDD offer cloud companies an economical and proven way to store data -- and both of these points are key. Cloud players are investing bil...
As the Winter Olympics approaches, we get to watch sports many of us have never tried. How can we connect to these sports? What should we look out for? What can we enjoy and learn? Research by three-times Olympian Lesley McKenna into what makes snowboarding meaningful offers us some great ideas. As a British athlete, coach and team manager, McKenna experienced first-hand the pressures of managing ...
As the Winter Olympics approaches, we get to watch sports many of us have never tried. How can we connect to these sports? What should we look out for? What can we enjoy and learn? Research by three-times Olympian Lesley McKenna into what makes snowboarding meaningful offers us some great ideas. As a British athlete, coach and team manager, McKenna experienced first-hand the pressures of managing athlete performance, wellbeing and the pursuit of medals. She saw the push and pull between the inherent creativity in pipe and park snowsport events and the drive for standardisation to make it easier to compare athletes. She felt the tension between the long-term joy of pursuing these sports and the external push for short-term results. Troubled by the direction of travel and keen to understand how to create better high-performance environments, McKenna set out to answer the critical question: how could athletes and coaches find a way to perform well without losing what makes their activity worth doing? McKenna saw how most high-performance sport systems were built around simple measures – times, scores, rankings, medals. Instinctively, McKenna knew this wasn’t the only way sport could be understood. Her own experience of action sports had shown her other ways to find value. McKenna already knew that risk and aesthetics played a major role in snowboarding and wanted to analyse and explain these concepts better and understand how they interlink. Risk isn’t just danger for its own sake, it involves how the human mind processes uncertainty, consequences and commitment. Aesthetics relate to style, creativity, flow and how something is done – not just whether a move is landed or not. In the pursuit of uncovering what snowboarders value beyond medals, McKenna interviewed athletes, coaches, judges and performance leaders across snowboarding, freeskiing, skateboarding and surfing and spoke to athletes and coaches from traditional sports, too. Through these conversations, McKenna ...