VST

rogerm8

I get what you're saying. Although. I'd like to note that the energy requirements won't reduce even if AI revenues dip/miss. The build outs are still happening, the forward increase in energy demand is almost certain. And I guess for me, I feel like the correction VST has experienced is significant enough to have already in a large part having priced in an AI jitter/miss.

95Daphne

The issue with the thesis of this being an escape from AI/tech is that I'd consider this an AI infra type stock. I would expect for all 3 of CEG/VST/NRG (and there's probably others) to struggle badly if AI keeps unwinding. They're solid large cap names though unlike some of the other names that blew up and have probably been getting blasted even harder. Those names that have are likely the Cathie '25 type names.

Nam_Jhi

VST has the feel of a classic value-energy play... cheap relative to growth potential, solid institutional backing, and some tailwinds from electrification and solar projects. Tech rotation into stable, cash-flowing energy names like this makes sense if you’re wary of volatility. Just keep an eye on debt levels and execution risk on those big projects... these things can bite if timelines slip. If you’re in for a multi-year horizon, the 20-year contracts and utility-scale projects could make this a quiet winner while tech shakes out

LargeSinkholesInNYC

The stocks I would recommend are: NVDA, AMZN, GOOGL, MSFT, AVGO, PWR, VST, 000660.KS, 005930.KS.

Extra_Side796

VST

Much_Candle_942

I'll go with VST - because Pelosi did.

rwc5078

Does anyone think VST can get to $200 by February Asking for a friend

Mysterious-Device-53

Any watching VST? Seems like a good price to get in

scroto_gaggins

FIX, VST, NBIS, CRDO (looking to exit VST though) Excluding big tech (GOOG, META) and some energy names (LB, VG, EQT) which I also think will benefit from increased AI spending.

MindfulK9Coach

Visa (V), Caterpillar (CAT), Waste Management (WM), PG, TSM, CSCO, VST, NFLX, and SOFI to name a few.

BastidChimp

60% VOO, 40% nuclear energy stocks (OKLO, LEU. CEG, VST, VRT, NNE, SMR)

greenpride32

Companies that sell storage, networking, power, cabling, cooling etc are all AI adjacencies seeing their revenue and profit set new records - same as some semis. This is just a subset of the economy. Why is STX APH VRT VST CEG CRDO up so much in past few years? They are getting AI boom same as NVDA AVGO, just not the headlines. Their revenue/profit plummets if AI market crashes.

PhilosopherIll3257

I like the ETF UTES. It’s only got a 1% dividend, but almost 40% of it is the 3 hottest utilities (TLN, CEG, VST) so it may have more capital appreciation than other ETFs

dvdmovie1

The IPP names (CEG/TLN/VST/NRG/HNRG) have already done extremely well in recent years. NFG would be something that I think is interesting that's more of a decent value.

EightFolding

DELL and HPE aren't bad stocks, but IMO they're lower margin commodity players so I don't hold them for this purpose. They assemble servers but they aren't real picks and shovels or full providers to address the bottlenecks, so personally don't fit my strategy. IMO the better plays there are VRT, and though volatile and risky: CRWV, APLD, IREN, NBIS. I also hold ETN and VST in that space, and keep a small DLR position for now. I'm just not convinced that server assembly is the winning move. They're kind of stuck between hyperscalers who are eventually going to be building all of their own datacenters and the neoclouds who are filling that gap for now.

dvdmovie1

It's not hype, but there is something to "I can deliver energy now" vs "I can have one of these built in 2027." Beyond that, the issue becomes the IPPs that can deliver now are already up 500-700% in the last 5 years and in the latter category you had something like OKLO trading at like a $25B market cap despite being *very* early stage - all the sudden OKLO is down about half in a month. The easy money has been made in the former and the latter lost just shy of half the moment the market started to have a little turbulence. Even with something like VST up 760% in the last 5 years, the best case scenario it could do fine but it's tough to see where the next 760% comes from and worst case scenario, the gains are heavily due to the AI/data center theme - any slowing in that and the downside is considerable (when the DeepSeek story happened earlier this year, VST was down 28% in a few days.) VST was a formerly bankrupt utility that did not much of anything for several years until data center demand. Names like PWR are up 500% in the last 5 years, as well. It's not that companies like PWR/VST/CEG/TLN/GEV, Siemens Energy in Europe or Mitsubishi Heavy and Hitachi in Japan are bad companies, but the theme has been going on for a while now already. The NUKZ etf is up about 50% YTD. I agree with the other poster who talked about nat gas.

KillerkaterKito

MAG7 doest stand for "best performing stocks" but for the "biggest" (1/3 of the whole index!) otherwise Iwould miss PLTR and VST. So, how does stoxx600 perform without the biggest 7 players?  It performs better! US MAG7 pulls the s&p500 while europes top7 brakes the stoxx600 | Segment / Index | Performance (YTD 2025) | Gewicht im Index (ca.) | |:---|:---:|:---:| | **Mag 7 (US)** | **+46,1 %** | ~32 % | | S&P 500 | +13,4 % | 100 % | | S&P 500 ex Mag 7 | -2,0 % | ~68 % | | | | | | **STOXX 600 ex GRANOLAS** | **+19,8 %** | ~75 % | | **STOXX 600 ex Top 7** | **+18,4 %** | ~83 % | | STOXX 600 | +16,4 % | 100 % | | STOXX 600 Top 7 | +6,5 % | ~17 % | | GRANOLAS (EU) | +6,2 % | ~25 % |

Hungry-Brain-3287

My holdings: CCJ, LEU and LTBR for energy. CEG, VST and TLN for utilities. GEV and FIX for infrastructure.

FUWS

I’m still green on D and just started buying VST today…

Gloomy-Mulberry2037

VST Oklo

Character-Pizza-8133

Looking for a lift to AMZN, WULF, and VST

wright_on_

$GEV and $VRT are the plays. Could take a look at $CEG, $VST, TLN and $NEE as well.

NormalAddition8943

lol removed by moderator? Did someone from a large firm contact their paid mod to yank the story, because this week wasn't meant to be a negative-news week to help shore up exit liquidity? --- For those that missed it: ### Peter Thiel dumps top AI stock, stirring bubble fears Peter Thiel dumps top AI stock, stirring bubble fears A quiet selloff raises fresh questions about AI’s surge. By Moz Farooque Edited by Celine Provini It comes at a surprising point when Wall Street’s been busy declaring the chipmaker as virtually untouchable. Although Nvidia recently surpassed a $5 trillion valuation, Thiel walked away completely, shrinking his fund’s equity book by roughly two-thirds while building it around three megacap names. That’s far from being a rebalance and more of an emphatic statement. Thiel had previously warned about AI’s hype cycle running far ahead of its real economics, and his Q3 portfolio shakeup aligns with that view. Peter Thiel co-founder of PayPal Inc addresses the Republican National Nominating Convention. Who is Peter Thiel? Peter Thiel isn’t like a tourist wandering through the tech world; in fact, he has been instrumental in building the modern version of it. He co-founded fintech giant PayPal, ran it as CEO, and took it public before becoming the first outside investor in Facebook. Later, he co-founded the most popular defense AI company in Palantir, where he remains chairman, while helping turn Founders Fund into perhaps Silicon Valley’s most influential VC shop, that’s backed businesses such as the likes of SpaceX and Airbnb. On the investing side of things, he runs his hedge fund, Thiel Macro LLC, which held nearly $74.4 million in long U.S. stocks as of Q3, which is down remarkably from $212 million in Q2. Moreover, his personal net worth is an eye-popping $16.3 billion as of 2025. Thiel’s Q3 filing unveiled perhaps the sharpest pivots of any major investor in the tech space so far this year. While Nvidia continues to power through blowout quarters and leap past a $5 trillion market cap, Thiel Macro LLC heads in the opposite direction. The fund didn’t just trim Nvidia, it eliminated it. Over 537,000 shares, which represent nearly 40% of the entire portfolio, just vanished from the 13F. Vistra Energy, another 19% chunk, was wiped out as well. What raises eyebrows even more is what Nvidia has been doing with quarterly sales surging from $39.3 billion to $46.7 billion, spearheaded by a 56% bump in data-center revenues, with analysts modeling a shot at $1 trillion in annual sales by 2030. Collectively, Thiel’s disclosed equity book dropped from nearly $212 million in Q2 to just $74.4 million in Q3, an almost two-thirds reduction. Moreover, the fund’s turnover hovered over 80%, leaving just three holdings: Tesla, Microsoft, and Apple. Tesla was pared back to just 65,000 shares, accounting for nearly 39% of the book. Meanwhile, Thiel’s fund invested in Microsoft and Apple, accounting for 34% and 27%, respectively, of the portfolio. Here are Peter Thiel’s Q3 13F portfolio moves: Sold Entire Positions ``` Nvidia (NVDA) Shares sold: 537,742 Prior weight: 40.07% of portfolio Result: Exited fully Vistra (VST) Shares sold: 208,747 Prior weight: 19.08% Result: Exited fully New Positions Added Apple (AAPL) Shares added: +79,181 Portfolio weight: 27.08% Estimated avg. price: $219.89 Microsoft (MSFT) Shares added: +49,000 Portfolio weight: 34.09% Estimated avg. price: $502.61 ``` With Thiel Corp hitting zero with Nvidia, a clear message stands out in a market that has been obsessed with anything AI. Nvidia’s fundamentals have been explosive, and Thiel has praised that dominance, hailing Nvidia as the clear hardware leader. On the other hand, he has warned that the AI hype cycle is getting out of hand, comparing the moment to 1999, when investors priced in a future that would take roughly 15-20 years to unfold. He’s not alone, either. Jeff Bezos described the massive AI boom as an “industrial bubble.” Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon points to a 12- to 24-month drawdown. Similarly, legendary investor James Anderson called Nvidia’s $100 billion OpenAI financing idea “disconcerting.” Most recently, the Big Short’s Michael Burry has put massive put positions against Nvidia and Palantir. That’s why Thiel rotated into Microsoft and Apple, tech giants with more diversified revenue streams, cloud scale, devices, and software. Thiel feels AI is transformative but slow-burning, and the platforms, not the current pure-play chip rocket, offer economics that will actually last. --- Here's the 13F filing: https://13f.info/manager/0001562087-thiel-macro-llc

xxxMarilee

Note that he didn't buy Google like Buffet did. Apple? Nope, can't go there. # Here are Peter Thiel’s Q3 13F portfolio moves **Sold Entire Positions** * **Nvidia (NVDA)** Shares sold: 537,742 Prior weight: 40.07% of portfolio Result: Exited fully * **Vistra (VST)** Shares sold: 208,747 Prior weight: 19.08% Result: Exited fully **New Positions Added** * **Apple (AAPL)** Shares added: +79,181 Portfolio weight: 27.08% Estimated avg. price: $219.89 * **Microsoft (MSFT)** Shares added: +49,000 Portfolio weight: 34.09% Estimated avg. price: $502.61 **Trimmed Positions** * **Tesla (TSLA)** Shares sold: 207,613 Change: –76.16% Portfolio weight after: 38.83%

theawarenessfund

You're thinking correctly. AI infrastructure (datacenters, power, cooling) is the right play vs chasing model companies. **Your thesis is solid:** \- Datacenter compute demand = 10-20 year tailwind \- Cooling is critical (40MW racks generate insane heat) \- Every watt matters (power costs are 40%+ of datacenter opex) **Specific stocks in your focus areas (under $200):** **Datacenter Power & Services:** \- **VST** (Vistra, \~$120) - Power generation for datacenters \- **NEE** (NextEra, \~$70) - Renewable energy + datacenter power **Cooling:** \- **VRT** (Vertiv, \~$130) - 60% market share in high-density cooling \- **CARR** (Carrier, \~$80) - Datacenter HVAC systems **Compute Infrastructure:** \- **SMCI** (Super Micro, \~$45) - Server infrastructure (volatile but pure play) **One layer you're missing: Networking** \- **AVGO** (Broadcom, \~$170) - Custom AI networking chips \- AI clusters need 800Gbps interconnects. AVGO dominates this. **Space datacenters:** Too early (10+ years out). Stick to terrestrial infrastructure for now. **My take:** You're early and right. Elite funds are loading power/cooling plays while retail chases NVDA. Check recent 13F filings—CEG, VRT, VST all showing up. Focus on infrastructure. Let others fight over who builds the best AI model. Not financial advice. Just confirming you're on the right track.

dvdmovie1

It may not be an imminent bubble burst, but too many people are also acting as if stocks up 200% in a year are in early innings and then are surprised when they lose 30-50% in a month the moment sentiment turns slightly. "the major players are investing heavily in AI and evolving rapidly." And the stocks are priced as if that's the case. Look at the Deepseek situation early this year - while the AI theme certainly rebounded, things like VRT and VST were down 25-35% in a matter of a few days - and then kept going lower until rebounding off the April low. So I'm not saying that there's an imminent bubble, but the easy money in AI imo has been made. Corrections will happen, but more broadly if you're now piling into AI at this point you have to really hope that the strength of the theme is maintained because the moment momentum starts to slow/concerns start to appear it looks like CRWV in the last month, or ORCL over the last couple of months. Even META is down nearly 20% since the end of October. "I’d like to focus on companies involved in building data centres" FIX and STRL are up 100%+ YTD (and massively over the last 5 years) and a lot of that is on the strength of the data center theme. If something caused that theme to slow or stop, there's not another growth theme of that magnitude for these names. I'm not bearish, I'm not thinking that there's a bubble that will imminently pop but on the opposite end, I don't think it's early either and a lot of the easy money has been made. I've seen people treat the speculative data center names in recent months like demand will be endless and this is just the start. Shortly after, NBIS is down 32% in a month and CRWV 45%.

Interesting-Iron2587

VST keep pumpin

Quitoduck

🚨Long on NVDA, NBIS, AMD, VST, QBTS, IONQ, OKLO through the UN 2030 Agenda 👀

Itchy-Criticism9208

I've been following them the last couple of weeks, especially with their new VST, they could have some great potential. It needs more attention

wrongrobertpatrick

The dips i bought: CRCL, IREN, NBIS, CRWV and VST I deserve to lose it all

Next_Past_2588

Everyone run up Victory Square Technologies. Ticker: VST on TSX

c_t15

I think that already happened. I’ve been in OKLO NNE SMR BE GEV VST during this power run. I don’t think there is more value in those. But I am holding BWXT after that earning sell off. They are priced sky high already. Sitting on 900 dollar LLY calls April 26. Rode the shares up from the capitulation candle under 700. Switched to call Friday. I like the defensive nature of LLY to tech, and also the value proposition. Pipeline is deep.

theawarenessfund

Nuclear is having its moment because data centers need baseload power that renewables can't consistently provide. When Microsoft signs a 20-year PPA with Constellation to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 specifically for AI training, that's not a publicity stunt - that's infrastructure reality. The math is compelling: A single large language model training run can consume 1-2 megawatts continuously for months. You can't do that with solar/wind intermittency, and batteries at that scale are still economically prohibitive. Natural gas works but has carbon exposure risk. CEG and VST are the pure plays, but watch the regulatory environment. The NRC hasn't approved a new reactor design in years, so the real value is in companies that can restart existing units or extend licenses. Small modular reactors (SMRs) are promising but still 5-10 years from commercial deployment. Position sizing matters here - this is a long-term infrastructure thesis, not a quick trade.

salty0waldo

Fairly strong rebound on CEG today. All the large generators (CEG, VST, TLN, NRG) reported fairly weak quarters with top line misses.

dvdmovie1

"I would have thought that nuclear would be a good bet given how much power is needed lately" Yes, but the issue becomes you have these SMR companies that either are a long way from profitability and/or haven't built their first reactor. When stuff like OKLO is up 760% off the low and they haven't built a plant yet or anything, if momentum stops, the re-rating down to reality can be significant. Most of the last 5 years has been a market of narratives and momentum and narratives can take something way further than anyone can expect, but when it stops, if there isn't fundamental support you can have an OKLO down almost 50% in less than a month. In terms of nuclear energy needs, CEG/VST/TLN/NRG are volatile stocks but they're providing today vs might build a reactor next year or the year after. "I certainly didn’t expect them to issue more stock" If you own a speculative growth stock that isn't profitable but the stock is doing well, they're going to raise money into that demand for the stock while the demand is there.

thatsmymayo

What do yall think about VST earnings today?

ProtectionAdorable89

What is VST going to do?

Rupert_Pumpkin13

$VST follow Nancy

unwanted_hair

A lot of open interest on VST puts concentrated around $170-175 for 11/21.

purplelavender39

What do yall think of VST earning this week?

Frequent_Read_7636

The crazy part about VRT was that I bought it when it was $60 because I thought Nancy Pelosi bought it. It wasn't until the stock hit $100 that I found out Nancy Pelosi bought VST and not VRT.

Hungry-Brain-3287

Thinking calls: BWXT, HOOD, VST, ACHR, INOD, and CEG.

dvdmovie1

"if AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing are structural to the future of society, how can companies like SMR not play significant role in the future." It hasn't deployed a reactor yet and is up 138% YTD. It may play a role in the future, but it's an early stage company that is being treated by the market as if it's further along. Any blip and the downside could be considerable. That's not saying that the data center power theme isn't a thing - but it's been a thing for a couple of years now. A previously bankrupt company that did nothing much for several years after going public again (VST) is now up just shy of a thousand % in the last 5 years. That's not saying that it can't go higher in a best case scenario, but I don't see where the next thousand % comes from given the nature of the business and there reaches a point where something that's primarily done what it's done in the last 5 years because of the data center theme has considerable downside if there's even a *blip* in that theme (Deepseek headline in Jan and VST was down 28% in 3 days.) I've done very well with this theme for a couple of years now and was one of the few people talking on here about it early in 2024, but I've started to trim some of it. I will likely keep a good portion of it, but with reasonable expectations at this point of what further upside looks like in a *best case* scenario - not expecting the next 2-3 years to be a repeat of the last 2-3. Again, not saying it's bad - I still have a very good deal of exposure to data center infra/energy, so hopefully it does continue for a while (and in a market like this that doesn't care about valuation it may), but my only concern is that anyone piling in at this point as if it's inning one has to really hope that it continues at this pace. Any blip is going to be a rug pull for this stuff.

LargeSinkholesInNYC

BABA, TSM, REGN, GOOG, JPM, GS, VST, 000660.KS, 005930.KS are the ones I would recommend right now.

Practical_Trash_1994

VST

RaceFit2498

CRWV is a easy cash grab along with VST just wait for VST to drop a little then cash in

Onebadosteopathswag

VST is just like Windows Vista cuz it's the best.

kintarogolden

VST looking fucking beautiful this morning

dvdmovie1

> This is departure from boomed net income Mag 7 AI stocks and the new really stocks that seems more speculative and volatile with unsupported P/E- thoughts? The data center spending beneficiary trade (construction, utilities, energy/IPPs, etc) has been a tremendously successful theme for a couple of years now (I mean, nobody talks about the fact that STRL and FIX have done better than NVDA over the last 5 years) but some of the stuff has gotten overextended. That's not saying that they're not doing well (they are), but imo some of this stuff gets to levels where even a blip/bump in the AI theme (not that I see that happening imminently but who knows) would cause these names to correct significantly. If the AI theme ever slowed more materially, the re-rating for some of this stuff would be major. I mean, VST was a bankrupt utility and did not a whole lot for 7 years after going public again. Soared because of the data center power need, but look at the Deepseek announcement earlier this year - VST was down 28% in 3 days. Bounced and then with tariffs it nearly went down 50% from the January highs to the April bottom. VST and BE and a lot of other things might continue higher or much higher (and earnings certainly show no sign of slowing), but how this stuff did after the Deepseek announcement shows that if there was sudden news that was materially negative to AI spending, some of this stuff wouldn't just decline it would be rug pulled.

Maximum-Magazine-333

VST with that 8% drop into massive V Dumbfuck meme stock

Same_Bag711

VST shitting the bed

Maximum-Magazine-333

VST crater

Peresviet

I use 1-300k for selling CCs on stocks I like. META/GOOG/MSFT/VST. Usually start selling CCs during big down days for a week out. If it keeps going down I keep the stock for a while selling CCs as long as its close to the original buy price. Did this with META starting on Oct 1st, sold the same call multiple times, up a coupla grand as the stock was pretty volatile. Current position; sold a 730 call for $2800 that expires right after earnings. Its great when VIX is high. So, technically not long but I've held positions for a while or rotated into them after having something drop heavily.

Maximum-Magazine-333

VST and TEM ruining my fun as usual

Ater0sin

VST, old lady investor. wish I had picked up FIX a month ago

95Daphne

Yeah, at least for the time being, I don't think the next sustained move down by the Nasdaq lives up to the doom some like to foresee. I think it'd probably be 33-35% like 2022, with names that aren't semis or AI infra like GEV/VRT/CEG/VST (or even smaller cap) not getting tagged quite as hard.

BastidChimp

I like nuclear energy stocks. You can't have A.I. without the energy needing to supply it. OKLO, SMR, NNE, VST, CEU, BWXT.

mfrag_2

Is anyone buying VST?

dvdmovie1

VST, CEG, TLN, NRG all up massively in recent years and things like PWR/EME have done very well. BE/FLNC/etc in terms of battery/fuel cell have turned into complete FOMO lately. The data center energy trade has been going on for a couple years already. It's not to say that some of the names aren't good companies/there isn't more to go, but when you have something like VST up 880% in the last 5 years given the nature of the company even in the best case scenario it's hard to see another 880% over the next 5 years. With a lot of names in this theme, there's also a very heavy reliance on the data center growth story. If something curtailed the theme (not saying it will imminently, but if) then a lot of these names will re-rate signficantly lower. So not saying there isn't more to go (especially in the best case), but the easy money has been made and if there's a blip in the AI theme, these names will definitely head lower.

Maximum-Magazine-333

My bad VST I’ll never buy you again

Same_Bag711

Dude was it VST going

GeneralZain1

UAMY, VST, AREC.... UUUU and USAR are my next positions

Same_Bag711

Eh, nothing right now. I like the mix of individual stocks I have in my brokerage/roth (ASTS, RDDT, HOOD, NBIS, GEV, BULL, COST, APO, CAVA, VST, RCAT.) CAVA is the only one I regret as I bought without really considering the PE for what they do, but I think I’ll break even on it eventually.

salty0waldo

So on a traditional valuation standpoint, it’s expensive from where it currently trades. Totally agree. If the AI momentum looses steam, ETN will most definetly come down with it. Over the past couple months (since last earnings) it has sorta traded sideways but certainly in lag to the AI momentum (that was a AC power joke regarding power factor). VRT is very, very rich at these levels due to its best-in-class cooling technology, but so is GEV. How to put a valuation on CEG, TLN, and VST I have struggled with as well. Sold CEG but still holding VST. TLN never made a ton of sense to me as for one, only a single nuclear site in central PA and they are still working on convert sites of gas.

sevopapi

CEG and VST to the moon

Much_Candle_942

#New narrative  Yea, you know we couldn't get those minerals, so chips supply bottleneck.. so we had to cancel our data centers construction 🚧  Puts on all networking gang (Arista, Poet), storage gang (SNDK, WDC) and obviously energy gang (Oklo, VST). #Everything cancelled ❌ 

teamyg

Sold out VST at 212 (cost 207) and took profit, 😂

kintarogolden

i own NBIS and VST that just spiked i know nothing but this is from someone on yahoo finance forums "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US ended the fiscal year of 2025 with a lower deficit-to-GDP ratio than the year before and sounded an optimistic note for 2026, noting that the US is on its way to lowering deficits without causing a recession."

kintarogolden

wtf just made VST spike like that

teamyg

Bought back VST at 207. US GDP will rely on data centers for the next decade; and shortage of power plant will flourish the power sector.

dvdmovie1

Speculative, unprofitable names a la 2022 after 2020/21. SOUN, OKLO, etc. There's so many things that lost 40-50% quickly earlier this year (PLTR lost about 40% in 2 months, VST lost just shy of 50% in about 3 mo.) This sub went from scolding people if they weren't bullish late last year to scolding people if they were talking about buying a share of anything at the April bottom and we're almost all the way back to scolding people if they're not bullish. The market post covid has turned into escalator up (certain sectors go up seemingly every day; there's little concern for valuation aside from "price-to-narrative", so where as stocks would previously 5 steps forward, 2 steps back they just turn into a FOMO fest pile-on.) Eventually a lot of people get complacent/110% risk-on and all the sudden you get the elevator down (price-to-earnings suddenly matters again, everyone 110% risk-on can't dial-up so they de-risk.) Also, for all the talk about AI, people not talking about things like Gold Miners (GDX up 123% YTD), Copper Miners (COPX +66% YTD) and critical minerals in general (SETM +75% ytd.) While the AI trade goes on, there's a real assets trade clearly at work that has done better than the Mag 7 (MAGS +20% ytd) and tech (VGT +23% YTD.) Lastly, the fact that Cathie is actually having a good year with ARKK up 65% should be concerning, as is the fact that that fund is up 65% YTD and is still negative over the last 5 years.

justaniceguy66

OKLO, SMR, NNE, CEG, VST are some obvious names

No-Analyst-7896

CEG, VST, TLN are my picks

Whipitreelgud

VST

GitDaHellOuttaDoge

Don’t forget VST for energy nuclear and widely held by hedge funds

kintarogolden

NBIS, RKLB, PL and VST are my high potential hold stocks that i bought a year ago, so far so good

thatsmymayo

So VST can go lower. Not sure why I needed to find out the hard way but whatever I guess.

jarkon-anderslammer

Dead-cat bounce on VST ANET + AMD. Maybe exit AMD if it starts pooping the bed again.

Beginning_Bus4969

Not even $VST?

johndeery27

STZ is a falling knife with no clear support in sight so idk why u would buy that u should be green now on WELL so secure profits ALGN is not a bad play for the downside, but I wouldn’t have taken that anyway NRG is still on a bullish trend and didn’t break support so i don’t understand why u thought grabbing puts now was a good idea u should be green on RJF VST doesn’t look bad now, but u shouldn’t have grabbed calls just yet UBER is a good play, but u bought short time. traders still don’t seem to understand that the biggest reason for their losers is because they DON’T buy long-dated contracts. when i started buying longer-dated contracts, meaning 2+ months ago, my trading consistency changed DRASTICALLY i don’t see why u thought buying TPR was a good idea, there’s no clear support in sight i think ur problem is ur focusing on too many plays at the same time and ur focusing on names that barely have any volume or open interest. stick to fewer plays, buy long-dated contracts, don’t buy random shit at random levels. be picky with ur trades and make sure ur plays have good flow because it adds conviction. u see whales dumping millions worth of calls or puts into a stock with a chart that looks good for upside/downside, assume those whales know something that u don’t because most likely that’s actually the case

Beginning_Bus4969

VST???

g3nericc

VST is going to pump today with the 1:1 chip manufacturing order

snyder810

I agree in principle, but nobody really knows when the spend will turn off for these data center/neo cloud operators. Infrastructure companies like VRT, VST, CRDO, ALAB, etc have 10X into becoming $30-$60B companies, that flow through run rate spend is now picking up among the next level. $300 for IREN is far fetched, but I also wouldn’t bet against those types getting to ~$50B level of cap either before things start breaking down. Heck, CRWV sits there right now.

Beginning_Bus4969

Only hope VST and STZ

TheFondestComb

Fuck you my VST shares I bought back in 2021 are printing like they’re NVDA

thatkid1010101

Hi fellow regards, as someone who works in O&G, more specifically natural gas, I would highly recommend looking into energy companies of all kinds (upstream, midstream, downstream). None of this compute is possible without electricity generation. Open AI 10GW center will suck as much electricity from the grid as New York City. For a fucking chatbot. AR, EQT, VST Leaps

Ecstatic_Wheelbarrow

Power companies to make consumers subsidize the costs until these moonshot nuke plants exist at a meaningful scale (if they ever exist). VST has been on a tear this year. TSM will continue building everything that everybody uses as well.

dvdmovie1

76 RSI, +21% in the last month. Has generally stuck fairly close to the 20day moving average and the times this year when it's gotten too far above it, it's often returned to it or close to it. Top holding is OKLO which is up about 1,600% in the last year despite not having any revenue until 2027. It's already overbought, but if market momentum continues could get more overbought. I like the power theme with AI, but I liked it starting in late 2023. At this point a lot of this stuff feels like a known/has already run very significantly. Could it keep running much further? Sure - but the data center power theme definitely feels like a known at this point with how much these names have run in the last 2.5 years or so. The power names are heavily, heavily reliant upon the continued strength of the data center theme and any blip in that (like you saw early this year) and these names get rug pulled. VST lost just shy of 50% in a few months. Certainly more than rebounded since, but a lot of these things are basically utilities turned into growth stocks. Not saying the AI story will turn imminently or something but if it eventually did, the re-rating on these names will be significant. So could it be a decent investment in the next 3-6 mo? Sure, if the market momentum/AI theme momentum continues - but it's definitely not early and has ramped lately/is technically overbought in the very short-term (although doesn't mean it can't get more overbought.)

dvdmovie1

VST is up 1,100% in 5 years and the other IPPs are up huge. GEV up almost 400% since spin-off in March 2024. OKLO is up 1,600% in the last year despite not expecting revenue until 2027. AVGO was $130/140 in April now it's $350 and up 850% in the last 5 years. Cloudflare is another - that was in the 80's in April now it's $230. PLTR was in the $60's at the bottom it's now $180. There's certainly things that I continue to like long-term but a lot of the stocks have already ran - "a still very young industry" was 18-24 mo ago. I wouldn't be investing in AI today as if it was first inning.

xDeadBang

Wondering who will be powering all those gigawatts. CEG, VST? Or "innovators" like Nuscale, Oklo?

Jbball9269

So buy VST and CEG. Companies that are actually producing nuclear.

Next_Past_2588

Victory square Technologies on the Canadian stock exchange is going wild! Ticker VST

limezest128

First off, I’ve been investing for 2 years and have limited experience. But to answer your question, I read news, mostly on Yahoo Finance, and in November last year I had an aha moment when I realized that just like AI needed chips (Nvidia etc) they also need immense power. And in November there was an article about this, and about different American energy companies. I made a watchlist of all of them + others I found, and then I watched them over time. I invested early in VST because it seemed less volatile and less ”fame driven” than OKLO with the connection to Sam Altman. I saw OKLO go from 18 to 50, then down again to 20 in March 2025, the up and up and up after that. The point of my story here is to be curious, make watchlists so that you get to know the movement of the stock over time. FWIW my energy watchlist is CCJ, CEG, NUKL.DE, OKLO, SMR, TLN, VST, XLU. I also bought Siemens in Germany for similar reasons. Disclosure, I hold OKLO, VST, CCJ and Siemens. Wish I had bought TLN early as well. I have other lists for eg quantum computing and for minerals.

Think-State30

VST Good luck

OpshunsWriter

NVDA has always been a good play for cash covered puts. I just sold an October 17 $180 put for $8.05 this week and now that NVDA has pulled back to 177, it’s looking pretty good. But, if the stock runs up past $180 and I get the shares delivered to me at a net cost of $171.95, I’ll be happy. Which strikes did you sell on VST and XYZ?

TradeVue

Nice work, this is exactly how options should be run systematic , premium focused, fully cash secured. The numbers tell the story: $1,696 in a week on $105k deployed is a 1.61% ROC, and annualized that’s huge without taking directional bets. selling premium with defined mechanics gives you consistency, and using cash instead of margin keeps the blow up risk off the table. The focus on strong names like NVDA, VST, and XYZ with puts is a smart way to stay aligned with underlying fundamentals while still collecting edge from volatility. This is the side of options most people never see. it’s not about doubling an account in a month, it’s about stacking small, repeatable high probability trades and letting the law of large numbers work for you.

GarbageTimePro

I posted some on my blog early this morning. I ended up doing really well with two of them - NVDA and VST [https://www.mlabstrading.com/posts/boring\_puts\_watchlist\_2025\_09\_10](https://www.mlabstrading.com/posts/boring_puts_watchlist_2025_09_10)

trader_dennis

OKLO URA and TLN VST and VRT We are just getting started with generating energy for AI.

Cantthinkofacoolnam

!banbet VST 200 7d

StrawberryOk8459

ALAB and CRDO plus AVGO. If Alab is too high, can get into Labx for exposure. Anything AI that is helping to build data centers is my focus. I've held all of these for a minute, and all are 100 over my buy price. I also love VST and it is currently in a buy zone. RMBS and SNDK with NTNX are low lying stocks beginning their blow up. Data centers are being built everywhere so for the next 5 years expect these companies companies to blow up. Of course I own all the above WSB stock plays but seriously real investors aren't just playing them. Anet and Net and NVDA. I can go on definitely keeping my Sofi and Rddt.