u/Johnny_Yukon ·
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· May 11, 2026 at 01:16
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Spent the last month going through every layer of the AI infrastructure stack. Power, cooling, networking, optical, memory, foundry, packaging, equipment. Roughly 30 companies. I wanted to find value somewhere in the chain… I mostly failed.
Power and cooling names like Vertiv are trading at 70x trailing earnings. Optical networking companies like Coherent, Lumentum, and Ciena are up 200-400% in 12 months with gross margins that don’t justify the multiples. Fabrinet is a great business but runs on 12% gross margins at $700 a share. Amkor looked interesting at $30 but doubled to $70 in a few weeks with insiders dumping nearly a billion dollars of stock on the way up.
The only name I can build a real value case for is TSM. 20x forward earnings on 41% revenue growth, 46% net margins, 36% ROE, and a literal monopoly on advanced chip fabrication. The business would be cheap at 25x. At 20x it feels like a gift considering every dollar of AI capex flows through their foundries regardless of who wins the chip design war.
Am I missing something? Is there a layer of the stack that hasn’t been driven up yet? Anyone finding value here or has the market priced in the entire AI buildout already?