5 Nasdaq Stocks Gaining Momentum This Summer

The AI boom is entering its next phase — and guidance is starting to shift.

While mega-cap tech stalls, a new group of Nasdaq stocks is gaining momentum across AI, biotech, semiconductors, and cloud infrastructure.

We identified 5 companies showing strong growth signals and breakout potential heading into the second half of 2026.

Inside the free report:
• One AI stock analysts see climbing another 31%
• One GLP-1 biotech with 145% upside potential
• One cloud platform benefiting from surging AI demand

Wall Street is only beginning to notice these names so early investors may benefit most.

👉 Discover 5 Nasdaq stocks showing the strongest momentum heading into the second half of 2026.

BREAKING NEWS

🚨 Michael Burry Just Called Out 95% of Investors

Here's a blast from the past that landed with a thud yesterday. Michael Burry, the guy who got famous calling the 2008 housing crash, just fired off a warning shot on social media: "95% of investors have no idea what they're investing in." Harsh? Maybe. Wrong? Not entirely.

Burry has a track record that's part genius, part train wreck. Yes, he made a fortune betting against the housing bubble. But he's also been loudly wrong a lot in recent years, constantly predicting crashes that never happened. He's basically the investor version of the boy who cried wolf.

So what's he getting at this time?

Burry's warning isn't about market timing. It's about behavior. A huge chunk of retail investors buy stocks based on hype, headlines, and hope, not fundamentals. That doesn't mean those stocks are doomed. It just means when the tide turns, the people who didn't understand what they owned are the first to panic and sell at the bottom.

His real point isn't "sell everything." It's "stop buying stuff you don't understand." And that's advice that works whether the market crashes tomorrow or rips to new highs for another five years.

The Munch Take: Know what you own. Know what you're paying. Be brutally honest about whether the math adds up. That's the only way to survive in a market where 95% of investors, according to Burry, are flying blind.

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STOCK OF THE DAY

🍿 The Popcorn Stock Is Popping Again

Remember AMC ( $AMC ( ▲ 27.32% ) ), the movie theater chain and king of the "meme stock" craze from 2021? It just roared back into the headlines. AMC reported earnings Monday, crushed expectations, and the stock shot up more than 20%. Grab your popcorn, because this one is a fun story.

The numbers were genuinely great. AMC pulled in a record $1.6 billion in revenue, its highest ever in the company's 106-year history. Even better, it turned a surprise profit when Wall Street expected a loss. Why? People started going back to movie theaters. Big blockbuster movies brought crowds back, sending attendance up 13.5%.

🐂 The Bull Case:

• 🍿 Theaters Are Filling Up Again. It was the biggest box office quarter in seven years, and AMC's sales grew even faster than the whole industry did.

• 💰 Real cash, finally. The company generated $190 million in free cash flow and posted a record profit margin, the best in its long history.

• 🌍 Europe is booming too. Overseas attendance jumped nearly 18%, so this is not just a lucky U.S. summer, it is a comeback on both sides of the ocean.

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🐻 The Bear Case:

• 💳 The debt is scary. AMC still owes nearly $4 billion and that mountain does not vanish after one good quarter.

• 📉 On paper, still a loss. By strict accounting rules, AMC actually lost $11 million, so the "profit" only shows up after some friendly math.

• 🐌 The party may slow down. Analysts expect sales growth to cool to about 6% next year, so this explosive growth probably will not last.

  

The Munch Take: Forget the stock for a second, the real story here is that people are falling back in love with going to the movies. For years everyone said the theater was dead, that streaming on the couch had won for good. This quarter proves the couch does not beat the big screen when the movie is actually worth leaving the house for. There is something about a giant screen, a loud sound system and popcorn that costs more than the ticket that streaming just cannot copy. Today, the stock market thinks so too.

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