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These chip stocks on Josh Brown's list have been home runs, and can continue rising

Cnbc · · 1362 words · By Josh Brown; Sean Russo; Joshua Brown
Financial Promotion Technical Analysis Growth Investing
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“This June we'll be rolling out an asset management strategy at my firm, Ritholtz Wealth Management, based on our Best Stocks research.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Ritholtz Wealth Management launched an equity SMA strategy called 'Porterhouse' in partnership with Franklin Templeton.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Altruist (legally Altruist Corp.) is an American financial technology company headquartered in Culver City, California which provides a digital custodial platform for independent registered investment…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is an American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch av…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ronald James Read (October 23, 1921 – June 2, 2014) was an American philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant. Read grew up in Dummerston, Vermont, in an impoverished farming househ…
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“As of April 13 , there are 176 names on The Best Stocks in the Market list.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ketan Parekh is a former stockbroker from Mumbai, who was convicted in 2008 for involvement in the Indian stock market manipulation scam that occurred from late 1998 to 2001. During this period, Parek…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company based in Menlo Park, California. It provides an electronic trading platform that facilitates trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinhood_Markets
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling a…
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“the stock had been up 56% in 2023, 9% in 2024 and another 94% in 2025.”
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While KLA Corp is identified as a company, the specific percentage gains for 2023, 2024, and 2025 are not present in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CVS Health Corporation is an American multinational healthcare company that owns CVS Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; and Aetna, a health insurance provide…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — KLA Corporation is an American company based in Milpitas, California that makes wafer fab equipment. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLA_Corporation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry. Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, which…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research
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“so far this year the stock is up another 42% YTD since we wrote about it here.”
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The provided evidence does not contain the specific YTD percentage increase for KLA Corp in 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — KLA Corporation is an American company based in Milpitas, California that makes wafer fab equipment. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLA_Corporation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry. Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, which…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CVS Health Corporation is an American multinational healthcare company that owns CVS Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; and Aetna, a health insurance provide…
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“KLAC is a services and equipment provider for semiconductor manufacturing process control and yield management.”
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Wikipedia and the official KLA website explicitly state that KLA Corporation supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry.
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web search NEUTRAL — Find the latest KLA Corporation (KLAC) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KLAC/?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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web search NEUTRAL — KLA Corporation is an American company based in Milpitas, California that makes wafer fab equipment. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLA_Corporation
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web search NEUTRAL — KLA is a leader in process control using advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, and computational analytics. Keep Looking Ahead.
https://www.kla.com/
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“KLA guided the March 2026-ended quarter to gross margins of 61.75% (up one percentage point)”
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The evidence provided for KLA does not mention a specific gross margin guidance of 61.75% for the March 2026 quarter. One result mentions a different company (Connections) with a 36% margin.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — KLA Corporation is an American company based in Milpitas, California that makes wafer fab equipment. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLA_Corporation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry. Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, which…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30…
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“KLAC currently trades at a forward 36x PE with 32% EPS expected for their next fiscal year.”
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web search NEUTRAL — KLA Corporation is an American company based in Milpitas, California that makes wafer fab equipment. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLA_Corporation
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web search NEUTRAL — KLA is a leader in process control using advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, and computational analytics. Keep Looking Ahead.
https://www.kla.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Find the latest KLA Corporation (KLAC) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KLAC/?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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“The stock ended 2025 up an astounding 139%, and it's up another 51% so far this year.”
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The provided evidence confirms Lam Research is a semiconductor equipment supplier but does not provide the specific stock price performance percentages for 2025 or 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry. [2] Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, w…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research
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web search NEUTRAL — Everyone at Lam is a deep listener, in tune with what customers, suppliers, and key stakeholders in the entire ecosystem expect. And in turn, we’ve created an environment based on effective communicat…
https://www.lamresearch.com/
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“Lam Research supplies wafer fabrication equipment that is used to manufacture semiconductor chips.”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment to the semiconductor industry.
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“LRCX is targeting a 2x in revenue and profit growth over the next five years.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Lam Research's specific targets for revenue and profit growth over the next five years.
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“in the past four years the company increased manufacturing capacity 2x and launched state of the art automated warehousing in 2025.”
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“Lam Research tried acquiring KLAC for $10.6 billion in 2015, but terminated the deal in 2016 over antitrust concerns.”
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“In 2015 LRCX had a $12 billion market cap while KLAC was about $10 billion.”
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“LRCX has more than 20x'd trading at a $329B market cap, followed by KLAC also 20x'ing at a $227 billion market cap.”
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