Top 9 AI Stocks For This Month

Even with the Fed holding rates steady, one trend has not cooled off: AI infrastructure spending. February inflation came in at 2.4% year over year, which keeps the market focused on quality growth, and that is where a lot of serious money is still flowing. See the full setup here.

The biggest winners in the next leg of AI may not be the household names everyone already owns. They may be the suppliers, enablers, and software businesses quietly benefiting while Wall Street keeps expanding AI budgets. Major tech firms are projected to spend roughly $635B to $665B on AI in 2026. Take a look at the 9 stocks here.

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Inside, I break down a chip company linked to U.S. AI manufacturing, a cloud name with a stronger setup than most investors realize, and a data analytics player with potential upside from public-sector demand. Read the full report here.

If you want to study where AI capital could flow next instead of chasing yesterday’s move, you can review the list here.

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☕️ GM Munchers! Nvidia reports after the bell today and I am more nervous about it than I was about my wedding. At least at my wedding I knew the outcome was going to be expensive. Today is less certain.

On today’s menu:

• 📉 Bond Yields Hit 19-Year Highs

• 🥇 Gold & Silver Are Crashing

• 🍔 Insider Trading At Shake Shack?

• 🤑 A Billionaire Owns These 5 Stocks

• 🤯 Trump Has Been Making Tons of Trades

Yesterday’s numbers:

BREAKING NEWS

📉 Bond Yields At 19-Year Highs. The Market Is Not Happy About It.

It’s never a great headline when the market does something for the first time since the Great Financial Crisis. But here we are.

The US 30-year Treasury yield just crossed 5.19%, its highest level since the months before the 2008 financial crisis. The 10-year hit a 52-week high and this isn’t isolated to only the U.S. Japan's bond yields are spiking simultaneously and the stock market is quietly starting to crack under the pressure.

The result?

The Nasdaq and S&P 500 are both pulling back this week after seven consecutive winning weeks. When the government has to pay investors over 5% interest to borrow money for 30 years, that changes the math on every other investment in the world.

Here is what’s driving everything right now:

• 🔥 Inflation hit 3.8% last week and Fed rate hike probability just jumped to 50%. Six months ago, markets were pricing in three rate cuts. Now traders are debating whether the next move is a hike. That is a complete reversal and it is spooking bond markets globally.

• 🏠 Home Depot reported earnings yesterday and beat on revenue but earnings fell year over year. The CFO specifically flagged that high mortgage rates are freezing the housing market and keeping homeowners from spending on renovations. When people cannot sell their house, they don’t upgrade it either.

• 🤖 Nvidia reports today after the bell and it’s the most important earnings print of the year. Analysts are expecting $67 billion in revenue and $1.51 in EPS. But the whisper number, which is what the stock actually needs to move higher, is closer to $1.60. Expectations are enormous. That is a dangerous place to be.

Walmart also reports on Thursday, right as consumer sentiment sits at all-time lows. The gap between a stock market at near record highs and regular people feeling terrible about the economy has never been wider. This week's earnings will start to tell us which one is right.

The Munch Take: The bond market hitting 19-year highs while the stock market sits near all-time highs is not a sustainable combination. One of them is wrong. Bond markets have a long history of being the smarter of the two. Nvidia today is the single biggest data point of the week. If Jensen Huang walks out and delivers another monster quarter, the AI trade gets its next leg higher and the bond market gets ignored for another few weeks. If he disappoints even slightly, this market has a lot of air below it to fall through.

🥇 Gold & Silver Are Crashing. Here’s What Happened.

Gold and silver just had one of the most violent single-session drops in 2026. $750 billion gone in 45 minutes.

Here is the plain English version of why. Three things hit at the same time:

1. The US dollar surged as Treasury yields spiked to 19-year highs. When the dollar gets stronger, gold automatically gets more expensive for international buyers. Less demand means lower prices.

2. Then the Fed rate hike probability jumped to 50%. When interest rates are high, investors would rather put money in bonds that pay 5.19% than hold gold, which pays nothing.

3. Finally, over-leveraged traders who owned gold and silver on borrowed money got hit with margin calls, meaning they were forced to sell immediately to cover losses elsewhere. Forced selling at scale moves markets fast and ugly.

Does this change the long-term case for precious metals? Not really. The physical silver supply deficit remains structural. Industrial demand for solar panels, EVs, and AI data centers keeps growing. This looks far more like a positioning reset than a fundamental reversal.

The Munch Take: This is what happens when too many people own the same trade with borrowed money and the macro backdrop shifts overnight. The long-term case for gold and silver has not changed. Governments are still printing money. Debt is still climbing. Inflation is still sticky. The metals just went on a painful sale. My wife bought gold earrings last month. She is currently outperforming every trader who bought on leverage this morning. Somehow, she always is.

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MARKET OVERVIEW

🍿 Tasty Movers & Shakers

🏦 Standard Chartered just announced it is cutting 7,000 jobs. The CEO's exact words: "We are replacing lower-value human capital with investment in AI." That is not a euphemism. That is a banking executive saying the quiet part out loud on a press release. Brutal sentence. Probably the most honest thing a CEO has said all year.

🤖 $GOOGL launched new AI models yesterday including personal AI agents designed to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. The stock dropped 2.34%. The market has seen enough Google AI announcements to know the difference between groundbreaking and catching up. Yesterday looked like the latter.

✈️ $SAAB jumped 3.84% after Sweden announced a $4 billion defense investment, its largest since the 1980s. Europe is rearming and the companies that build the hardware are winning. This trade is not going away anytime soon.

🍔 $SHAK Shake Shack surged 7.42% after a regulatory filing showed the CEO and other insiders bought $3.2 million worth of shares. When management puts their own money in, the market listens. Insider buying is one of the cleanest signals in the game.

👓 $WRBY Warby Parker plummeted 10.96% after announcing it is making AI glasses with Google and Samsung. A company famous for affordable eyewear just told the market it is pivoting into consumer hardware alongside two of the most powerful tech companies in the world. The market said no thank you. Loudly.

STOCK OF THE DAY

💼 Bill Ackman Runs A $13.7 Billion Portfolio. 77% Of It Is Five Stocks.

Most fund managers spread their money across dozens of positions to reduce risk. Bill Ackman thinks that is a bad idea. His entire $13.7 billion portfolio is concentrated in just 11 stocks, with 77% sitting in five names: Brookfield at 18%, Amazon at 17%, Uber at 16%, Microsoft at 15%, and Meta at 11%.

The thesis is simple and bold. This is essentially a bet that the biggest AI winners will be dominant platforms already monetizing massive user bases. Every stock in the top five fits that description:

• 🤖 $AMZN, $MSFT, and $META are the three clearest AI infrastructure and monetization plays in the market. Amazon has AWS. Microsoft has Azure and Copilot. Meta has 3.2 billion daily users and an ad machine that prints money.

• 🚗 $UBER at 16% is the most interesting pick. Ackman believes Uber's data infrastructure positions it perfectly for the autonomous vehicle era. The more robotaxis there are, the more valuable Uber's demand network becomes.

• 🏗️ $BN Brookfield is his highest conviction position and his cheapest. It owns the physical real estate, data centers, and energy infrastructure that AI needs to actually run. It trades at a meaningful discount to its net asset value and Ackman has been adding to it aggressively.

His track record deserves some attention. Since founding Pershing Square in 2004, Ackman has generated cumulative net returns of over 2,600% against the S&P 500's 836% gain over the same period. He made $2.6 billion in less than a month by hedging against the 2020 crash. He also lost billions on Herbalife and Valeant. He is not infallible. He is just right more often than almost anyone else.

The Munch Take: Ackman's portfolio tells a clear story. He is not trying to own everything. He is trying to own the five companies that will be most valuable in a world where AI becomes the backbone of every major industry. The concentration is either brilliant or dangerous, depending on how the next two years play out. Given his track record, we would not bet against him. My wife asked me why we don’t just copy his portfolio. I told her it was more complicated than that. She looked at the 2,600% cumulative return and looked back at me. I didn’t have a great answer.

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