The New AIIP Deep Dive Report is here.
First, thank you for your support and for taking part in our April poll. This report is built directly on what you asked for:
Top-performing AI stocks
A Deep Dive report on key AI stocks
The top stocks on our watchlist
The free newsletter continues every Thursday. The Deep Dive Report is the analytical layer underneath.
AI investing is full of jargon and can be complex to understand. This report aims to explain each stock in plain English. No jargon left unexplained.
The Three Stock Picks
Each edition picks three stocks using a fixed method: one from the AIIP Watchlist, one from the past four weeks' best performers, and the one you picked - AVGO.
Ciena (CIEN): "duopoly play" + "147% YTD" + "AI training stretches across multiple data centres".
Sterling Infrastructure (STRL): "An 'AI stock' that pours concrete” - The heavy civil contractor preparing land for hyperscaler data centres.
Broadcom (AVGO): "The Nvidia alternative" - Custom AI chips for Google’s TPUs, Meta and Open AI.
What you will get in the report
For each stock (Sterling, Ciena, Broadcom):
What the company does
Where it sits in the AI chain
Its dependency on the chain
Why it is hard to replace
The numbers worth watching
What could go right and wrong
The bottom line
Across the report:
How each layer of the AI Stack is performing
The Top 15 AI stocks so far this year
The full AIIP Watchlist with proprietary scoring
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The BCDDP Stack: Five Layers
AIIP groups the AI universe into five macro layers (Build, Connect, Develop, Deploy, Power), known as the BCDDP Stack. Each layer depends on the layers around it.
Build: chips, memory, storage, test equipment. Nvidia, AMD, TSMC, Broadcom, Micron, Seagate.
Connect: the networks moving data between AI compute nodes. Ciena, Arista, Marvell, Credo, Cloudflare.
Develop: the tools to build, train, and run AI models inside organisations. Palantir, Databricks, CrowdStrike, Datadog.
Deploy: AI wrapped into everyday software products. Salesforce, ServiceNow, Adobe.
Power: energy, cooling, and site infrastructure for data centres. Sterling, Vertiv, Bloom Energy, Constellation.
How the Five Stacks Are Performing
Equal-weighted average return for every stock in the AIIP universe, grouped by macro layer. The table below shows where the money has actually gone, and where it has been pulled out, over four time horizons.
Stack | 1 Week | 1 Month | 6 Month | YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Build | +11.7% | +37.1% | +73.8% | +76.5% |
Connect | +8.8% | +20.9% | +86.9% | +84.2% |
Develop | +6.0% | +14.8% | -23.7% | -19.1% |
Deploy | +2.7% | +9.2% | -19.6% | -16.8% |
Power | +11.9% | +29.4% | +49.2% | +70.5% |
Universe (all 195 stocks) | +6.8% | +19.8% | +18.6% | +23.4% |
How the AIIP scoring works
Every stock in the AIIP universe (195 stocks as of May 2026) gets scored weekly. The Combined Score (out of 200) sums a Fundamental Score and a Relative Strength Score.
Fundamental Score (out of 100): growth-weighted by design. Growth (60%) scores quarterly revenue and EPS growth against thresholds that scale with company size (a small-cap clearing 30% is achieving more than a mega-cap clearing 30%). An acceleration bonus of up to 30 points rewards businesses that are speeding up. Quality (40%) covers gross margin level (60%+ is software-grade; below 20% is structurally challenged), margin trajectory (contraction triggers a penalty), and 20 flat points for positive free cash flow per share.
Valuation gate: any stock with a forward PEG above 5 is excluded from the Watchlist, regardless of how strongly it scores elsewhere.
Relative Strength / RS (out of 100): performance against the rest of the AI universe, not the S&P 500. RS combines 1-year and 6-month percentile ranks (50/50), with a 52-week-high penalty so a fading momentum stock cannot hide behind a strong 12-month print. RS 80 puts a stock in roughly the top 20% of the AI universe.
Watchlist tier: Fundamental 70+, RS 80+, and PEG gate cleared. This edition: 14 stocks.
The report itself is written in plain language. If something sounds like jargon, that is a mistake on our part, not something you should have to Google.
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About AIIP - The AIIP Index tracks 195 AI-focused public companies across the full AI stack, serving as our benchmark for sector performance. All scores are proprietary and calculated using data from Finbox (powered by S&P Global Intelligence). AIIP Total Score (0–100) combines metrics for sales and EPS growth, financial quality, and valuation to assess overall business strength. AIIP Relative Strength (RS) Score measures a stock’s price performance relative to the AIIP 173 AI stocks. Ranking Status is based on score combinations: Fundamental: Total Score ≥ 70, RS < 80. Momentum: RS ≥ 80, Total Score < 70. Watchlist: Total Score ≥ 70 and RS ≥ 80
