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Black Panther Capital @BlackPantherCap · Apr 1

THE AI SUPPLY CHAIN — COMPLETE MAP

I've spent a few hours mapping the entire AI supply chain. Hyperscalers are spending $750 billion. These are the 42 companies building, powering, and deploying AI from start to finish.

Every layer. Every sector.

Bookmark it. Feel free to add companies in the comments.

Layer 1: Chip Equipment (the machines that build the machines):
$ASML
$AMAT
$LRCX
$TSEM

Layer 2: Foundry & Fabrication (where chips are born): $TSM
$GFS
$INTC

Layer 3: GPU / ASIC / CPU (the AI compute engines): $NVDA
$AVGO
$AMD
$MRVL

Layer 4: Memory & HBM (the bandwidth bottleneck): $MU
$WDC

Layer 5: Photonics & Optical Interconnects:
$COHR
$LITE
$AAOI
$POET
$MTSI
$ALMU

Layer 6: Data Center + Space (the physical home of AI):
$IREN
$NBIS
$CIFR
$WULF
$EQIX
$RKLB
$ASTS
$PL

Layer 7: Cybersecurity (every new AI system is a new attack surface):
$CRWD
$PANW
$ZS
$NET
$S
$FTNT

Layer 8: AI Software & Automation (where the ROI shows up):
$PATH
$PLTR
$NOW
$HIMS
$DDOG
$SNOW
$MDB
$SOFI

Layer 9: Defense & End-Use (where AI becomes operational):
$ONDS
$OSS
$RKLB
$AMPX
$LHX
$RTX
$NOC
$PNG.V

Every company on this list has either government budgets, hyperscaler contracts, or can potentially benefit from the AI build it somehow.

Save this. And if you found this valuable, you should follow me.

The market won't be red forever.

-BP

Please note: This is not financial advice.

$AAOI $ALMU $AMAT $AMD $AMPX $ASML $ASTS $AVGO $CIFR $COHR $CRWD $DDOG $EQIX $FTNT $GFS $HIMS $INTC $IREN $LHX $LITE $LRCX $MDB $MRVL $MTSI $MU $NBIS $NET $NOC $NOW $NVDA $ONDS $OSS $PANW $PATH $PL $PLTR $PNG $POET $RKLB $RTX $S $SNOW $SOFI $TSEM $TSM $WDC $WULF $ZS

Black Panther Capital @BlackPantherCap · Mar 15

Retail is about to buy the wrong defense stocks. Again.
Everyone's loading up on $LMT and $RTX.

Here's why that's the dumbest trade in 2026 and what actually wins the Iran war as an investment:

The 2026 Iran conflict is not an F-35 war.

It's a mine war. A drone swarm war. A maritime autonomous systems war.

Iran built a "denial navy", not to beat the US fleet, but to drain it.

Fast boats.
Mines in the Strait.
Autonomous submarines.

The defense trade looks completely different when you understand that.

Iran's Azhdar UUV is a stealth underwater drone with lithium-battery propulsion.

Quiet. Cheap. Deployable in shallow water where conventional sonar is blind.

Deploy enough of them and you've created a subsurface minefield that forces the entire US fleet into reactive, costly defensive mode.

High-end US interceptors vs. $50K drones.

That math doesn't work for $LMT shareholders.

Meanwhile, on March 13, buried under oil panic headlines, the US Army dropped the biggest defense tech contract in history.

$20 BILLION to Anduril.

Not Lockheed. Not Northrop.

Palmer Luckey's six-year-old startup just became core infrastructure for how the US military fights.

120+ separate procurement actions collapsed into one enterprise deal.

This is the signal.

The procurement shift is structural, not temporary.

"Legacy defense contractors have dominated Army contracts for generations. But they've been flat-footed on autonomous systems."

LMT and NOC both dipped on the Anduril news.

The market is telling you something.

Now let's talk $PLTR.

Media calls it a "war trade." Wrong frame.

Palantir's Maven Smart System is compressing the sensor-to-shooter chain to seconds.

US government revenue: +66% YoY in Q4.

CEO is rationing the product, demand is so strong they're holding off selling to allied governments.

That's not a war premium. That's a backlog.

The numbers:

> $4.4B total revenue in 2025 (+56% YoY)
> $7.19B projected for 2026 (+61%)
> 75% EPS growth consensus for 2026

The Iran conflict doesn't create Palantir's moat. It validates it.

Rosenblatt raised target to $200. UBS upgraded to Buy.
It's still trading 28% off its 52-week high.

The actual portfolio for this conflict:

$PLTR; AI targeting, intel backbone
$KRKNF: Maritime surveillance, subsea drones
$ONDS; Autonomous drone systems
$LHX; Electronic warfare, comms glue
$OSS; Rugged edge AI

The meta-trend nobody is talking about:

The Anduril $20B contract means the Pentagon is now buying platforms, not individual programs.

Software-defined. Modular. Scalable.

This is the US military equivalent of what AWS did to enterprise IT.

The winners aren't the hardware OEMs.

They're the operating system.

Here's the irony of retail piling into $LMT right now:

The F-35 costs $80M per unit.
The drone that might attack costs $43K.

The US is literally reverse-engineering Iranian Shahed drones (Spektraworks, $30M contract) and deploying them back against Iran.

That cost curve tells you everything about where defense spending is going.

Iran built an asymmetric denial navy. The US response is autonomous, AI-driven, and software-defined.

The old defense primes are losing procurement share in real time.

Watch Anduril's IPO when it comes.

Avoid the muscle-memory trade.

Time will tell.

-BP

As always, please note: This is not financial advice.

$KRKNF $LHX $LMT $ONDS $OSS $PLTR $RTX

Balder @Balder13946731 · Mar 15

不管油价上涨还是下跌，军工行业一定是战争的赢家 $LMT $RTX

只是他们的上涨节奏不是所有人都可以适应。你想想按照特朗普说的计划，美国军工厂将会扩产4倍。

$LMT $RTX

Balder @Balder13946731 · Mar 15

保持目前的高油价将为美国的石油行业额外带来1000亿美元现金流。

$XOM $CVX $OXY

现在已知的战争明确受益者还包括 $LMT $RTX

但是他们赚的钱都是从美国消费者和其他企业额外增加的成本里吸出来的。

The Kobeissi Letter: This is absolutely insane:

Prior to the Iran war, US oil companies were generating ~$62 billion in annual free cash flow with oil prices at $55/barrel.

Now, with oil prices at $100/barrel, US oil companies are expected to generate $163 billion in annual free cash flow, if

$CVX $LMT $OXY $RTX $XOM

Balder @Balder13946731 · Mar 7

川普宣布美国军费可能飙升至1.5万亿，比目前0.9万亿再增长67%
✅$LMT $BA $RTX
1.5万亿其实是合理的，也就是5%GDP
但是这样赤字就别想降下来了

zerohedge: *TRUMP: WE MAY GO TO $1.5T IN MILITARY BUDGET

$BA $LMT $RTX

Balder @Balder13946731 · Mar 4

如果真打八周 $LMT $RTX 铁定要继续涨

*Walter Bloomberg: TRUMP TO DISCUSS WEAPONS SUPPLY WITH DEFENSE CONTRACTORS

President Trump will meet Friday with defense executives to address U.S. weapons production amid Middle East conflicts. He maintains the U.S. has a “virtually unlimited supply” of medium- and upper-medium-grade weapons.

$LMT $RTX

Balder @Balder13946731 · Feb 19

RT Evan
All these stocks hit new 52 WEEK HIGHS at some point today

Lockheed Martin $LMT
Deere $DE
Chevron $CVX
General Electric $GE
Fedex $FDX
Johnson & Johnson $JNJ
Union Pacific $UNP
Baker Hughes $BKR
$BP
CBOE Global $CBOE
CF Industrials $CF
Ciena $CIEN
ConocoPhilips $COP
Coterra $CTRA
Cenovus $CVE
Devon Energy $DE
Edison $EIX
Equinor $EQNR
Dimondback $FANG
Frontline $FRO
Halliburton $HAL
Huntington Ingalls $HII
Kinder Morgan $KMI
Linde $LIN
Lumentum $LITE
Northrop Grumman $NOC
New York Times $NYT
Ovintiv $OVV
Quanta Services $PWR
Raytheon $RTX
Shell $HSEL
Suncor Energy $SU
Targa Resources $TRGP
Texas Pacific $TPL

$BKR $BP $CBOE $CF $CIEN $COP $CTRA $CVE $CVX $DE $EIX $EQNR $FANG $FDX $FRO $GE $HAL $HII $HSEL $JNJ $KMI $LIN $LITE $LMT $NOC $NYT $OVV $PWR $RTX $SU $TPL $TRGP $UNP

TraderGoku @tradergokux · Feb 13

美国历史上的几次超级 CAPEX 周期：

1880s 铁路时代 → 占 GDP 6%
1920s 电气化时代 → 占 GDP 4%
1960s 冷战军工复合体 → 占 GDP 3%
2026 AI 基建时代 → 占 GDP 2%（仍在加速）

每一轮这种级别的基建扩张，
最后都诞生了一批跨时代的长期赢家。
$CVX $UNP $GE $T $RTX $LMT

$CVX $GE $LMT $RTX $T $UNP

Value Sense @ValueSense_io · Jan 27

Major stock after today's earnings:

🇺🇸$UNH United Health = -20%
🇺🇸$UPS UPS = +2.5%
🇺🇸$GM General Motors = +6%
🇬🇧$KMB Kimberly-Clark = 0%
🇺🇸$NOC Northrop Grumman = +1%
🇺🇸$RTX Raytheon = +2%
🇺🇸$AAL American Airlines = -2.5%
🇺🇸$JBLU JetBlue = -5%
🇺🇸$BA Boeing = -2.5%
🇺🇸$UNP Union Pacific = +2%

$AAL $BA $GM $JBLU $KMB $NOC $RTX $UNH $UNP $UPS

TraderGoku @tradergokux · Jan 27

$KTOS 关注强势股的均线回踩，可能是很好的入场机会。

$RKLB $RTX $KRMN

TraderGoku: $KTOS 过去一年里表现最好的军工股之一，正尝试在 EMA21 附近反弹。

$KRMN $KTOS $RKLB $RTX

TacticzHazel @TacticzH · Jan 26

The Thematic Supercycle of 2026:

AI / Compute / Semicon
$ASML • $SSNLF • $NVDA • $MU • $AMD • $TSM

Nuclear & Power
$CEG • $VST • $GEV • $OKLO

Data Centers & Power Infrastructure
$NBIS • $IREN • $VRT • $CRWV • $CIFR

Batteries & Storage
$FLNC • $EOSE • $TE

Defense & Aerospace
$KRKNF • $RHM • $LMT • $BA • $LHX • $RTX

Drones & Autonomous Systems
$AVAV • $RCAT • $ONDS

Space
$RKLB • $ASTS • $LUNR

Copper
$FCX • $RIO • $TECK • $IE

Rare Earths
$MP • $UUUU • $CRML • $TMC • $IDR

Quantum
$QBTS • $IONQ • $RGTI

Crypto
$BTC • $ETH

Emerging markets
$DLO • $MELI • $SE

Healthcare
$NVO • $LLY

What is your favorite theme for 2026?

$AMD $ASML $ASTS $AVAV $BA $BTC $CEG $CIFR $CRML $CRWV $DLO $EOSE $ETH $FCX $FLNC $GEV $IDR $IE $IONQ $IREN $KRKNF $LHX $LLY $LMT $LUNR $MELI $MP $MU $NBIS $NVDA $NVO $OKLO $ONDS $QBTS $RCAT $RGTI $RHM $RIO $RKLB $RTX $SE $SSNLF $TE $TECK $TMC $TSM $UUUU $VRT $VST

TacticzHazel @TacticzH · Jan 26

RT TacticzHazel
The Thematic Supercycle of 2026:

AI / Compute / Semicon
$ASML • $SSNLF • $NVDA • $MU • $AMD • $TSM

Nuclear & Power
$CEG • $VST • $GEV • $OKLO

Data Centers & Power Infrastructure
$NBIS • $IREN • $VRT • $CRWV • $CIFR

Batteries & Storage
$FLNC • $EOSE • $TE

Defense & Aerospace
$KRKNF • $RHM • $LMT • $BA • $LHX • $RTX

Drones & Autonomous Systems
$AVAV • $RCAT • $ONDS

Space
$RKLB • $ASTS • $LUNR

Copper
$FCX • $RIO • $TECK • $IE

Rare Earths
$MP • $UUUU • $CRML • $TMC • $IDR

Quantum
$QBTS • $IONQ • $RGTI

Crypto
$BTC • $ETH

Emerging markets
$DLO • $MELI • $SE

Healthcare
$NVO • $LLY

What is your favorite theme for 2026?

$AMD $ASML $ASTS $AVAV $BA $BTC $CEG $CIFR $CRML $CRWV $DLO $EOSE $ETH $FCX $FLNC $GEV $IDR $IE $IONQ $IREN $KRKNF $LHX $LLY $LMT $LUNR $MELI $MP $MU $NBIS $NVDA $NVO $OKLO $ONDS $QBTS $RCAT $RGTI $RHM $RIO $RKLB $RTX $SE $SSNLF $TE $TECK $TMC $TSM $UUUU $VRT $VST

RonnieV @TheRonnieVShow · Jan 24

3 Big Themes that will CRUSH 2026 all Year:

1. Nuclear + Power
$CEG • $CCJ • $VST • $BWXT • $FLNC
$OKLO • $SMR • $UEC • $LEU • $EOSE

2. AI Compute & Infrastructure
$NVDA • $AMD • $MU • $AVGO • $ASML
$TSM • $VRT • $NBIS • $CIFR • $IREN

3. Defense / Aerospace
$LMT • $RTX • $NOC • $GD • $LHX • $ONDS
$KTOS • $BA • $HWM • $RCAT • $RKLB

Choose your theme for 2026 👇

$AMD $ASML $AVGO $BA $BWXT $CCJ $CEG $CIFR $EOSE $FLNC $GD $HWM $IREN $KTOS $LEU $LHX $LMT $MU $NBIS $NOC $NVDA $OKLO $ONDS $RCAT $RKLB $RTX $SMR $TSM $UEC $VRT $VST

RonnieV @TheRonnieVShow · Jan 24

Ohhhh, that’s why Defense and Drones have been running so hot this year…

$LMT $RTX $ONDS $DPRO $RCAT

War Radar: BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. officials are preparing for what could be the largest conflict the Middle East has ever seen against Iran, expected to be brief but extremely destructive.

$DPRO $LMT $ONDS $RCAT $RTX

RonnieV @TheRonnieVShow · Jan 22

TRUMP: "WE HAVE A MASSIVE ARMADA HEADING IN DIRECTION OF IRAN"

Add these Defense Tech Stocks to your watchlist NOW:

1) $AVAV 11) $BWXT
2) $KTOS 12) $PLTR
3) $RTX 13) $HWM
4) $LMT 14) $CW
5) $NOC 15) $OSIS
6) $LHX 16) $ONDS
7) $GD 17) $DPRO
8) $HII 18) $HEI
9) $TDG 19) $FLY
10) $DRS 20) $RCAT

$AVAV $BWXT $CW $DPRO $DRS $FLY $GD $HEI $HII $HWM $KTOS $LHX $LMT $NOC $ONDS $OSIS $PLTR $RCAT $RTX $TDG