It is the first of the series of earnings previews for Q4. We chose Lam Research, AMD, Teradyne, Nvidia, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, and Qualcomm for the Semiconductor sector. To understand valuations across semis and how the sector is positioned moving into earnings, please reference our analysis, “I/O Fund’s Semiconductor Q4 2021 Earnings Preview.”

I/O Fund recently initiated a position on Snowflake given its performance in revenue growth, net retention rate, and percent gain since becoming public over a year ago.

Last August, I predicted that Nvidia could surpass Apple on market cap. Here is what I said in my Forbes article: “I believe Nvidia is capable of out-performing all five FAAMG stocks and will surpass even Apple’s valuation in the next five years” and I expanded on this by stating, “We believe [Nvidia] can surpass Apple by capitalizing on the artificial intelligence economy, which will add an estimated $15 trillion to GDP.

The memory market needs to find new solutions to increase storage capacity and keep up with cloud computing. One such solution is 3D NAND and Micron is pioneering this technology.

I/O Fund’s Lead Tech Analyst Beth Kindig shared her views on cryptocurrency in the Finimize X Ledger Crypto Summit 2021. Here is the video “How to Value the Next Big Crypto Play” and an overview of the discussion.

Beth Kindig shared her views on Square’s name change to Block, Jack Dorsey stepping down as Twitter’s CEO, and the upcoming opportunities to watch in an interview with CoinDesk. Here’s an overview of the discussion.

Cloudflare is excelling as a company in website and application security in addition to Zero Trust and R2 Storage products. Doubtlessly, it will deliver. But at its current valuation, Cloudflare as a stock isn't as attractive to us.

CEO and Lead Tech Analyst Beth Kindig of I/O Fund discusses the current hybrid and work from home trend in relation to cloud companies, specifically Asana. As working from home becomes more commonplace, key cloud-based tools like Asana reap profits.