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AI chipmakers dominated the market's biggest boom, but Goldman Sachs sees a new AI trade emerging
Investors are increasingly questioning which companies will turn massive AI spending into real earnings growth.
TL;DR
- Investors are increasingly looking for AI winners beyond semiconductor and infrastructure companies.
- Goldman Sachs believes the current AI dynamic, with chipmakers booming while others in the ecosystem spend aggressively, is unsustainable.
- The bank predicts that hyperscalers and AI deployment firms will outperform semiconductor companies in the next phase of the AI trade.
- Hyperscaler stocks could benefit if enterprises show returns from AI spending, leading investors to pay higher multiples.
- A risk to this view is hyperscalers continuing to invest heavily in AI infrastructure without seeing meaningful enterprise adoption returns.