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Last time I've seen "It's all over" type posts was... 3 months ago during the situational awareness liquidation. And... 3 months ago before that... with Iran tensions + Oil + Helium + LNG fears/pricing. And... few months ago before that. I'm sure everyone remembers Deepseek back in like 2025 Each one had genuine risks, with rate hikes/margin liquidations to oil prices + supply disruption. And now financing/credit markets. Not trying to downplay the risks but haven't seen it materialize in the companies I'm tracking (eg. optical sector) given counterparty types + sector visibility + architectural shifts in 2027-2028. For example in this $LITE CEO interview, the guy said there hasn't been any order cancellation/delays given rate hikes. But obviously neocloud sector that uses heavy debt leverage might be different. I've seen that the general sentiment was a recovery after midterms in 2 weeks, I'm not the type to give predictions like that. We'll see Directionally bullish on certain sectors of AI supply chain like memory/photonics, but everything was sold off indiscriminately, even if they're not exactly the same trade.
@aleabitoreddit

Serenity on X

I can't give advice on what others should do but from what I'm seeing from $AAOI revenue ramp, it looks something like this from disclosed capacity. -> $858M Q1 2027 -> $1.29B Q2 2027 -> $1.62B Q3 2027 -> $1.89B Q4 2027 -> $2.14B Q1 2028 They're sitting on $6.8B MC right now. I'd be very impressed if they do $7.5B exit annualized revenue run rate in 2027 off 40% gross margins and markets assigned them the same valuation. And judging from $LITE making capacity agreements into 2030-2031... I don't quite think demand stalls out after 2027-2028. Anyway, lot of execution risk obviously, but H1 2027 inflection point is pretty close, so I'm personally waiting.
@aleabitoreddit

Serenity on X

$LITE CEO interview on demand, counterparty + financing risk: - "CFO of $GOOGL came on and reported capex going up Y/Y, we expect hyperscalers for report an increase in capex in earnings. Based on what we see, we see their spend going up." - "The purchase agreements we have, to a large degree, are noncancellable." - The difference between Lumentum and companies like $AVGO, "we are not as dependent on AI datacenter buildout going forward" There's a conversion between electrical products to optical products" creating structural demand. Q: When do you see able to see yourself having more inventory? (catching up to surge in demand) - When we look at demand, there is "no end in sight" TLDR: Financing risk and demand aren't equally distributed across AI supply chains. But markets are just selling everything off together. As for photonics in specific, I said this before, but increasing optical content per XPU + CPO/NPO adoption keeps going up so we'll likely see sector spend go up, even if aggregate capex goes down. There's the usual "no end to demand in sight" commentary, but $LITE does have capacity commitments into 2029 now... and are negotiating for 2030. (with new information that most of which are likely hyperscalers + non-cancellable) So doesn't quite sound like it's all over for the AI trade, especially photonics.

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