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No, unfortunately me going long on $LITE last year doesn’t send it to a $70B MC, unlike public opinion. they’re all driven by extreme forward revenhe growth, $AAOI $471m / month starting H2 2027. And $SIVE total forward revenue pipelines growing 77% in a single quarter, from new pluggable partners from $JBL to unannounced ones.

It’s mainly just “follow the leader” algorithmic selloff in current photonics markets. Most laser/optical related companies from $AAOI to $SIVE seem tied to $LITE performance… Despite individual fundamentals improving. Eg. (AOI with $AMD / $NVDA discussions). Algorithms don’t differentiate well, especially if something is higher beta than others. But if you know something markets don’t like Sivers with more optical transceiver customers unannounced. You can outperform in the long run. There’s a lot of 20%-30% intraday moves nowadays, so I personally wouldn’t trade these movements. Just going long on the Kingmakers in photonics thematically since I’m confident in exponential TAM growth.

@JohanAn37323972 $SIVE would do just fine without me. The only difference is it would be 90% institutional owned by now instead of US retail.

@WuKongWAGMI There’s only a few major pluggable players that I can think of that don’t vertically integrate lasers like $LITE and $COHR. So Innolight is possible. $SIVE hinted at multiple players since this plural, so there’s likely a few more.

This is the biggest TAM expansion + revenue driver with $SIVE, markets haven’t noticed. Sivers is actively working with new pluggable optical transceiver companies. After Jabil 1.6T LRO used Sivers lasers to achieve a “relatively dramatic moat”. “Actively working”, so co-development / qualification stage. My guess is we’ll likely see optical transceiver companies (eg. Innolight), announce they’re using $SIVE lasers soon.

@159Adir52550 This cultural battle is just normal volatility to embrace and laugh at, since this is how the remainder of Sweden loses control. I actually tried to help Swedish retail about how special $SIVE was but “tall poppy syndrome” is probably ingrained culturally for most at this point.

I’d probably consider launching a fund to just buy out $SIVE if it reached those levels lol. Don’t think it’s possible to go there again, given $JBL pluggable ramp and more optical transceiver customers underway. Also not sure who they’re analyzing for, Swedish folks don’t own the company anymore, just a few percent to go.

It’s actually just a cultural thing in Sweden to dislike anything special or growth related. They’re telling everyone to “give up on markets” Don’t take it to heart, just something to laugh at and welcome. Since it shifts control to US funds + likely makes Sivers a US company down the road. Because it’s cultural, many will start crying if they see $SIVE balloon forward revenue pipelines 77% from $JBL photonics 1.6T LRO in just a few months. Even more so if they learn Sivers is likely to supply more pluggable optical transceiver players. You’ve already kinda seen it with $SOI, at this point even with local French firms/retail shorting + negative press.. US institutions/investors don’t really care anymore since they own a large part of the float, and that’s up 4x now. Just from personal ests on share structure: Maybe ~5% Swedish retail ownership to go (down from ~60%+ -> 8% -> 5%)… Which might be 13% of free float. So these types of local media publications are very positive for US investors/institutions. Qualitatively speaking, everyone in Western institutional side of things seem very overwhelming positive on optical companies like $SIVE. Since they’re familiar with Ayar, Celestial, and private CPO leaders compared to a lot of retail or local Swedish funds who don’t understand. And majority of access should unlock after likely NASDAQ listing soon. You’re just witnessing how ownership changes to Western institutions and it’s a good reminder to know what you own so you’re not influenced by Swedish culture.

From what I’ve seen, cyclical slump 2025. $XFAB was already dragged down, since it’s close to P/B value and lower than actual cost of asset replacement value from personal est. For Melexis, it’s also a guess we’re near the bottom of automotive cycle for legacy drag kinda like $SOI. To allow for growth verticals in power semis to silicon photonics to carry valuations.

Just some mobile shower thoughts around $XFAB and train of thought: 1. 800vdc $NVDA push look for GaN/SiC players / power semis. 2. $NVTS and other fabless/fab-lite beneficiaries of $NVDA push probably use foundry models 3. care more about Western supply chains over Asia, want to build up Western capabilities + Western premiums. 4 China has a lot of capacity, maybe risk into 2028, but again it’s building up Western supply chains 5. XFAB only high volume SiC foundry in America (others like $ON or Infineon are vertically integrated) 6. advanced 6in SiC, 8in GaN on Si, building out 8in GaN 7. Maybe likely they’re developing 8in SiC from CHIPS backing, just not public material 8. check SiC revenue -> 152% Y/Y growth okay. Probably something markets missed, since blended looks worse from automotive slump, that should come out recovery 9. $NVTS and others turns out to use $XFAB. $POWI cites $XFAB in filings, among others. 10. both are $NVDA power semi explicit partners, great exposure indicator to 800vdc power semi players. 11. US Dpt. of commerce cites $XFAB as only high volume SiC foundry in the US, $50M PMT 12. validation from US Gov about critical component in supply chains is amazing 13. EU CHIPS Act gives $XFAB $128M EU, for foundry (MEMS, AI, etc), okay turns out they’re critical MEMS player 14. So that’s validation from EU gov about critical component in supply chains, dual continent subsidies 15. So now we know $XFAB is a critical MEMS foundry so you get SiC capabilities, GaN development, and MEMS upside 16. they also got $47.6M EU funding for leading Silicon Photonics supply chain in EU. So that’s EU funding on multiple angles. 17. Turns out, I know all the players there from smartphotonics from $GFS deck. 18. $NVDA and $NOK are qualifying them for silicon photonics HVM. I think this is just a government backing angle for success in EU photonics so likely to succeed… kinda like how Us gov encourages everyone to use $INTC. 19. Okay chips act 2 is coming out next week… so they’ll probably get funding there or more revenue commitments 20. 1.28 p/b, now that’s probably just book cost? Likely coming out of $SOI type legacy drag cycle. 21. Did some modeling around actually replacement values, true replacement p/b cost likely ~.5/.7. 22. Getting business for free, while having upside from SiC near term into Silicon Photonics / GaN as main growth past H2 2027. Thoughts: derisked by p/b values + replacement value. maybe like 20% downside from macro. However, critical dual continent importance. So downside risk seems low, but upside is compelling. Lot of capex likely backstopped by upcoming chips act catalyst + national security concerns. Maybe 2.5-4x rerating seems possible/likely. Not a 10-20x, but recovery from depressed valuations from silicon photonics upside with SiC / GaN bridge. TLDR: likely trading lower than replacement value, dual continent subsidies likely subsidize capex. Gov grants shows importance to Western supply chains, photonics longer term upside, SiC/GaN demand likely near term upside and bridge. Don’t control any recent volatility, should shake out anyone not really confident in the thesis though. CHIPS act 2 from EU is coming up, $XFAB was listed in earlier blueprints for optical ecosystem, so should get a boost after that comes out as near term event catalysts. So now is the risk reward seems compelling, we’ll see if this is right or not

I had higher expectations for Shunsin tbh. It’s been close to a month and a half and it’s only up 39.96%. Maybe I’m not as good with Taiwanese optical stocks. https://t.co/MbqvMTPiE6 https://t.co/2zClJN4bl2

At $NVDA GTC/Computex in Taipei: I think we’ll hear about the next AI bottleneck. That’s owned by a .6 P/B potato farming company in Japan, with a 180 year history. Their owner cooks those potatoes in night markets for 160 yen a piece. But that same potato farming equipment used to grow potatoes with optimal sunlight. Is now required for optical alignment requirements for CPO. And their unique cooking technique is mandatory to address thermal requirements for Rubin. Can anyone guess?

@jpm7019 It’s not getting much premiums if $AAOI hits $5.7B ARR entering h2 2027 if it’s $12B now. It’s backed by underlying fundamentals. A lot of the premiums on space sector or quantum though would likely disappear in that event since they don’t have the same revenue figures.

@michaelsikand Yep agreed, i think just in general if your stock isn’t called $MSFT or a big Software name. You would need to calculate your own fwd P/E ratios with hypergrowth names like $AAOI or $SNDK.

$AAOI is actually my favorite photonics exposure in the US market right now. I went long last year with low sizing at $28, back when I guessed they were qualifying with $AMZN and $MSFT. High conviction post earnings at ~$70, when they announced 1.6T and other volume orders with hyperscalers. Capacity projections at $90 for 2027 timelines were bullish. Now at $150, the story from 2025 is coming together with all the laser fab bottlenecks, GS optical TAM projections, Made in America efforts, $NVDA / $AMD discussion rumors. The only thing holding them back is ATM after ATM, and now another $600m ATM… I personally think it easily rerates once the mechanical selling pressure stops. And personally think it could be a 4-5x return in 12-24M. Also I don’t know who calculates those forward p/e’s on the screener websites but they’re all extremely off.

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Can’t believe $ARM went straight from $134 to $354 when I took positions. The ~$15B annual revenue coming from these cool name AI CPUs seemed a bit insane at the time. At Computex, looks like $NVDA is unveiling new ARM based processors too. Counterpoint them shows them dominating AI ASIC servers by 2029, projections which is crazy… GPU:CPU ratios are requiring more and more CPUs. Seems like they have everything going for them?

Okay chat, it’s been awhile since the previous one. And a ton of names from $VPG to $ASPI cooked. So crowdsourcing a new list: What’s your highest conviction ticker that you think can 10x in a short timeframe, and why?

@aiizisw77940 @talethdabm89 Nope, it’s still the same with $LPK, just waiting on volume ramp to start.

中文社区又出了一篇佳作！ 当我发现像磷化铟（InP）衬底这样的产业链瓶颈或关键节点时，我通常会凭主观判断来进行操作。 这在很大程度上取决于能否准确预判下一次的技术架构演进！ 尤其是去年，当所有人都在说光技术还为时过早、铜互连不会被取代时，我果断做多了光通信供应链。 看到大家如何解读我的投资思路，并将其转化为更偏算法化、系统化的逻辑，真的非常有意思。

I wonder if my chokepoint investment theory… With $AXTI to $SOI to $SIVE will be studied in future history books? Regardless, I think everyone here is a part of making history. Given Reuters to Institutions to Countries are reacting to supply chain game theory with Serenity.

@AsianbeBlazin Because I’m confident $SIVE management knows what to do by themselves. If they operated like $SNAP I’d be more activist.

@_king142 No clue, just floating out my opinion into the public. But I’m extremely, extremely impressed with $SIVE management so far. And I think they’re heading down the right path with NASDAQ dual listing soon.

$SIVE is an extremely singular case just because of major US presence already from customers, cap table, CHIPS acts, and others. Staying primarily in Sweden with a local market that tries to hinder their growth, isn’t ideal. I wouldn’t say the same redomestication is the right path for other primary EU firms like $XFAB or $IQE and would encourage local European growth there given EU supply chains.

I think $SIVE should just become a full American company, and use NASDAQ listing as the first step. > US cap table / large ownership + US CHIPS act support already > larger valuation premiums + M&A opportunities. > local Swedish media blatant disinformation from underwater short sellers, isn’t helpful for AI photonics growth > lot of more funding opportunities + support from US institutions / funds / indexes By preserving EU efforts under a subsidiary and having a US parent company. This helps Sivers become a major US optical player, not just a Swedish semi trying to explain itself to local markets that doesn’t understand. I do think management sees a path forward for $SIVE to become the next dominant US photonics giant like $LITE.