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Hardly a year goes by without at least one big investment trend driving a number of related stocks higher. Wall Street’s latest “next big thing”, artificial intelligence (AI), is getting a lot of attention thanks to the emergence of new generative AI applications such as ChatGPT.
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AI will play an increasingly important role in everything that matters to you: your job, your car, your search engine. The global AI market ballooned to $137 billion last year, and Grand View Research predicts he will grow 37.3% annually through 2030.
Billionaire money managers eager to capitalize on this megatrend are buying up AI stocks everywhere. Here are two things some of the world’s most successful investors don’t fully understand these days.
Nvidia
Nvidia (NVDA 2.54%) He made his name as a developer of graphics processing units (GPUs) that support video games. The chip is also very good at handling his AI applications. As a leading provider of new chips built for AI applications, the company is a natural investment choice, with billionaire wealth managers buying up its shares directly.
In the first three months of 2023, Israel Englander and his fund Millennium Management have upped 1.3 million Nvidia shares. Ken Griffin and his Citadel Advisors have also purchased another million shares of the chip designer’s stock.
Companies are racing to apply generative AI to every conceivable product, service, and business process. What they all have in common is their reliance on Nvidia chips. During the first quarter of his Nvidia fiscal year, which ended April 30, Amazon web services, alphabetgoogle cloud, microsoft Azure and Oracle Both cloud infrastructures offered new products based on Nvidia’s powerful H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware allowed data center sales to grow 14% year-over-year, well exceeding Wall Street expectations. But with stocks now near all-time highs, the stakes may be too high for most investors.
Nvidia shares are currently trading at 83 times expected earnings, and hopes are already high. Investors who bought at recent prices could face big losses if the notoriously cyclical semiconductor manufacturing industry hits another slowdown, as it did in 2022.
UiPath
UiPath (the way 7.65%) We sell software platforms that businesses use to automate repetitive tasks. The company is a leader in the field of robotic process automation (RPA) by making it easier for office workers who couldn’t write code out of a paper bag to incorporate his AI and machine learning models into their own systems. I will continue to be on top. application.
Billionaire investors have bought up UiPath in the first three months of 2023, anticipating a surge in demand for RPA tools that incorporate generative AI applications. Englander’s Millennium Management Fund acquired another 1.8 million shares, bringing its holdings to 5.8 million. Coatu Management, led by Philippe Laffont, added 1.2 million shares, increasing UiPath’s position to 2.9 million shares.
Since its inception, the UiPath platform has employed AI to read and understand endless types of documents and user interfaces. The recent popularity of generative AI applications such as ChatGPT has resulted in record attendance at the company’s latest AI summit. And all the excitement is drawing new customers to his UiPath during a difficult time for most software vendors.
Fears of a potential recession this year have forced businesses around the world to curb spending on the most unpopular productivity tools, but UiPath appears to be weathering the storm unscathed so far. is. The company reported a dollar-based net retention rate of 122% for the first quarter of the fiscal year ended April 30. During this difficult time for software vendors, the company’s ability to retain old customers and add new ones suggests that UiPath’s customers perceive them to be profitable. Improve your return on investment.
Currently, UiPath’s expected profit is about 60 times higher. This is a more reasonable multiple than his Nvidia, but the stock is still very risky at this point.
The billionaires on this list bought millions of shares in UiPath and Nvidia this year, but still kept those positions as a relatively small part of their portfolios. If you buy these stocks for your own portfolio, be sure to do the same.
John McKee, former CEO of Amazon subsidiary Whole Foods Market, is a member of the Motley Fool’s board of directors. Alphabet executive Suzanne Fry is a member of the Motley Fool’s board of directors. Cory Renauer has a position at Amazon.com and he at UiPath. The Motley Fool has positions with and endorses Alphabet, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Nvidia, and UiPath. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
