The next AI winners may look nothing like Nvidia or Micron: One Big Investment Idea.
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The next AI winners may not resemble Nvidia (NVDA) or Micron (MU). Companies like Airbnb (ABNB), Booking Holdings (BKNG), and Expedia (EXPE) continued to rise into August, even as…
The next AI winners may look nothing like Nvidia (NVDA) or Micron (MU).
The first phase of the trade rewarded companies building the AI infrastructure, from chips to data centers. As the AI rally broadens, the next hunting ground may be businesses using those tools to cut costs, lift sales, or improve productivity.
The travel industry offers a good case study. Travel stocks took off broadly from their May lows, with airlines leading the first leg. Then the leadership changed.
Airbnb (ABNB), Booking Holdings (BKNG), and Expedia (EXPE) kept climbing into August while hotels stalled and airlines and cruises gave back part of their early surge.
The three booking platforms are up nearly 40% at the median since May 19. Hotels are roughly flat.
Travel is just one place to hunt. Insurance, banking, retail, restaurants, logistics, and healthcare services all have large amounts of repetitive service, pricing, paperwork, and transaction work.
The next leg of the AI trade may be less about who builds the technology and more about who turns it into better numbers before the stock catches up.
As Chesky told Yahoo Finance, "Everyone has access to AI, but not everyone's using it equally."