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2/14/2026 09:45:00 PM

This AI powered retailer outperformed NVIDIA

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Saturday, February 14, 2026

Investors have serious FOMO when it comes to AI stocks.

But ask most people what these companies actually do (beyond spending staggering amounts of money).

That's why I've never been comfortable chasing high-flying tech stocks promising to "change the world."

The upside looks exciting, but the risks are almost always misunderstood.

Sure, you can make extraordinary gains betting on the next big thing.

But there's another way to participate in every major technology cycle—one that's often overlooked.

It involves investing in boring, well-known consumer businesses that quietly use new technology to improve margins, pricing power, and execution.

Over the last 20 years, that approach has helped me compound my capital more than 70x!

Not by chasing hype, but by understanding how technology actually shows up in real businesses.

On Thursday, February 19th at 4pm ET, I'm going to walk you through exactly how this works.

I know that sounds crazy, but take a look at this chart.

You'll see AI hardware companies like NVIDIA, TSMC, and ASML…

AI software companies like Palantir, Microsoft, and Alphabet…

And a "boring" consumer brand your kids and grandkids have probably told you about a million times that outperformed them all.

Build-a-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW) went from $2 in early 2021 to an all time high of $76 per share in September 2025 – a 3,700% increase!

And unlike the high flying technology stocks that have futuristic products you probably don't understand…

With valuations that make absolutely no sense…

Build-A-Bear is a profitable company trading at a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 11.6, compared to an estimated forward P/E ratio of 23.6 for the S&P 500.

They operate at a 55% growth margin that any software investor would drool over…

And they have ZERO debt on their balance sheet.

This means there's still plenty of room for the stock to compound returns WITHOUT runaway valuation issues or diluting the crap out of investors.

And importantly, its growth didn't depend on speculative, unproven technology that required billions in capital.

They sell teddy bears at malls.

If you wanted to do your own research, you could have walked into a store, tried the product, and talked to customers.

That's a lot easier than trying to reverse-engineer how a hyperscaler or AI platform really makes its money.

Build-A-Bear's story is a familiar one in retail: a "turnaround rerate" driven by better leadership and better execution.

And quietly, it's also shaping up to be an undercover beneficiary of AI—using personalization, automation, and data to increase single-store sales and improve margins.

So why didn't most investors hear about it?

Because it wasn't marketed as a "pure AI" stock.

It was a consumer business using technology the right way…

Improving business metrics investors care about and reward!

I know it can feel like the only way to build serious wealth is by betting on speculative technology stocks everyone else is talking about.

But I've found the most sustainable way to grow capital is by investing in businesses you actually understand—especially during major technology shifts.

That's what we'll cover on Thursday, February 19th at 4pm ET.

If you've ever felt like you were guessing on a tech stock because "everyone else owns it," this session will be a relief.

You don't have to be a technology expert to make life changing gains from technology trends.

You just need a framework for identifying companies that are leveraging technology into higher earnings.

If you'd like to learn the approach I've used to consistently beat the market with a focused portfolio of 8–10 "boring" consumer stocks…

Block off 45 minutes on Thursday, February 19th at 4pm EST and I'll show you how you can do the same.

Jeff Macke | The Macke Portfolio

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2/14/2026 09:30:00 PM

The AI panic is real (and it's not going away)

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Saturday, February 14, 2026

Welcome to The Strazza Letter, a free note with market insights from me, All Star Charts Chief Market Strategist Steve Strazza.

DeepSeek just dropped a model that's cheaper, faster, and arguably better than anything OpenAI or Anthropic has put out.

And in response, the market absolutely nuked big tech. Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, Google—all down double digits. Over $1 trillion in market cap gone in a matter of days.

Now every SaaS company, every software business, every "AI-powered" startup is scrambling to figure out if they even have a moat anymore.

Because if a Chinese lab can build something better for a fraction of the cost, what exactly are you paying premium multiples for?

And here's the uncomfortable truth: This isn't going away.

This is the new reality. AI isn't just disrupting other industries anymore—it's disrupting the companies that were supposed to BENEFIT from AI.

The cannibalization is happening in real time, and retail traders are getting slaughtered.

But here's what most people don't understand: When money flows OUT of one sector, it flows INTO another. That's a rotation.

And if you know how to read them, you don't sit there bag-holding Microsoft hoping it bounces back. You pivot. You follow the flow. You position where the money's actually going.

That's exactly what we did in October. While everyone was still piling into tech, I started seeing institutional accumulation in energy. The charts were building bases. Volatility was compressing.

The Squeeze Engine was lighting up on Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon.

So we positioned. And over the next four months, we caught seven straight winners. Chevron ran 925%. ConocoPhillips 582%. Kinder Morgan 549% in six days.

Not one loser. Not one.

And now it's happening again.

I've got five setups on my watchlist that are showing the exact same structural patterns energy showed back then.

Tight consolidation. Accumulation. Volatility compression. Relative strength starting to diverge from the broader market.

These aren't tech stocks. These aren't AI plays. These are names in a sector that's being completely ignored right now while everyone panics about DeepSeek and ChatGPT. And that's exactly why they're setting up.

Inside Breakout Multiplier, you'll see these five setups in real time. You'll get the alerts when we enter.

You'll be in the weekly strategy sessions where we walk through how to manage the positions as they develop.

And if the pattern holds like it did with energy, you'll be sitting in multi-bagger winners while everyone else is still trying to figure out if Microsoft is done falling.

Right now through Monday at midnight, you can lock in $1,000 off annual or $100/month off. After that, we're back to full price.

Join Breakout Multiplier before Monday's deadline

The AI panic isn't going away. But you don't have to sit there and bleed with everyone else. There's a rotation happening right now. You can either see it or you can't.

Steve Strazza | Chief Market Strategist, All Star Charts

P.S. I'm not here to tell you tech is dead forever. I'm here to tell you that RIGHT NOW, the money is flowing somewhere else. And if you're not positioned for it, you're going to miss it just like you missed energy.

Stop bleeding. Start positioning. Join before Monday

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2/14/2026 01:30:00 AM

The Dollar General Breakout

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Friday, February 13, 2026

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Bifurcation continues, as the market punishes former leaders and lifts beaten-down laggards off the mat.

Here's today's standout:

Dollar General Corp $DG is currently exhibiting a Squeeze Score of 94.60.

Here's what the chart looks like:

DG is pushing higher out of a tight coil within the context of a massive trend reversal.

Price is attempting to reclaim the VWAP anchored to the COVID lows, while volatility on the Strazza Indicator remains compressed near recent lows.

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2/13/2026 09:45:00 PM

The easiest money in AI

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Friday, February 13, 2026

This week has been an absolute bloodbath in the stock market.

Why? Because the market has finally decided artificial intelligence might be really bad news for legacy software companies.

Hundreds of billions of dollars were erased this week as panic level selling triggers double digit drops in price.

And while everyone else is trying to figure out if they should be buying or selling AI and software stocks…

I'm getting ready to make some of the easiest money in AI over the coming weeks and months ahead.

So if you're at all worried you missed out on your chance to win big on AI stocks…

Forget about chip makers, data centers, and software companies.

The next 10x opportunities will come from boring consumer stocks.

Here's why…

We've seen this before in every major tech cycle.

Infrastructure and platforms led the story…

But the lasting wealth was created by the businesses that actually used the new technology to sell more, at higher margins.

In the late 1990s, over $750 billion was poured into fiber-optic networks and telecom infrastructure. Most of those companies went bankrupt. But Amazon used the cheap bandwidth they built to become the most dominant retailer in history.

In the late 2000s, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google spent billions building the cloud. The first winners were SaaS software companies. But Domino's Pizza — a pizza chain that rebuilt itself as a tech company — used cloud infrastructure and digital ordering to deliver a 90x stock return from 2010 to 2020, outperforming every single FAANG stock over that period.

In the 2010s, Apple built the iPhone and Facebook figured out mobile ads. But Starbucks used mobile ordering and its rewards app to nearly quadruple revenue. Its app became the second most-used mobile payment platform in America — behind only Apple Pay.

Every time, the same thing happens: Trillions go into building the infrastructure and the platform companies get the headlines.

But the boring consumer brands that actually use the technology to sell more stuff, at higher margins, end up capturing the biggest and most durable gains.

AI is now entering that same phase…

Over the next 12–24 months will determine which retailers and consumer brands become this cycle's Domino's, Starbucks, and Amazon…

And which will become the next Sears.

Want to find out more about how you can win big investing in boring retailers and consumer brands?

I'm hosting a private webinar on Thursday, February 19th at 4pm ET (click here to register)

You don't need to try to learn everything about semiconductors and software companies to win big on AI.

All you need to do is own a handful of plain-vanilla consumer stocks that use AI to grow faster, expand margins, and get re-rated by the market.

That's exactly what this live event is about.

On this call, you'll discover:

How a concentrated portfolio of 8–10 consumer names is positioned to capture the AI productivity boom — without betting on chips, models, or data centers
Why "boring" brands like pizza chains, discount retailers, and coffee shops have quietly produced 10x–90x returns in previous tech cycles — and which ones are set up to do it again
The 4-box framework I use to separate the next Domino's from the next Sears — before Wall Street catches on.

This may be the only AI strategy where you already know — and shop at — every company in the portfolio.

All you need to do is show up next Thursday at 4pm EST to find out how you can turn shopping at the mall into your next 10x winner.

Click here to sign up.

Jeff Macke | The Macke Portfolio

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