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I get it. Your portfolio is red, and you've checked it three times today, and the headlines are telling you that the crash is coming, and your coworker is telling you that he sold all of his stocks, and some part of you is thinking, "Hey, maybe I should, too."
But, you know what? If you'd put $10,000 into Nvidia in March of 2020, when the entire world was shut down with COVID, that money would be worth roughly $270,000 today. My point is that the fear that you're feeling right now does have a price tag. And in this video, I'm going to show you exactly what that is. I'm also going to show you why I'm doubling down on these growth stocks right now. And like many of my videos, I will show you my complete breakout on how I would invest in each of these.
But, as far as the fear, I I completely get it. This is personal for me, because when I was in college in 2001, my roommate worked at Micron, and he lost half of his 401k overnight. And then, of course, he lost his job. I watched it completely happen in real time, and I didn't know what to do about it, like everyone else. And then, of course, 7 years later, in 2008, my coworkers, now that I had a career, and I we were all going through this exact same thing.
But, this time, I I wasn't in college, and I wasn't watching from the sidelines. This time, Buffett's mantra was very fresh in my mind, to be greedy when others are fearful. So, I completely flipped the script. I was greedy when everyone around me was completely freaking out, and they were selling everything. And I'm not going to lie to you, it it felt completely wrong, because it went against every fiber of my being. Psychologically, everything was telling me to sell, like everyone else was doing. But, instead, I doubled down, and I invested heavily during that downturn. And of course, my story goes, 5 years later, I finally became a millionaire. I've already seen this movie play out twice before, and the data on what happens next, in my opinion, is overwhelming. I recently covered what happens in market downturns, and now I'm taking advantage, and I'm buying into my top five stocks right now. even more rich without really making me lose any sleep at night.
Let's go ahead and begin with the first company of Marvell, where they design custom chips and high-speed networking gear, and keep the entire data center moving forward. Their custom accelerator chips are built specifically for hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to run their own AI workloads. And they're one of the only handful of companies on the planet that's building the next generation of technology called silicon photonics, which moves data with light instead of copper wires. As I've explained in prior videos, it runs faster and cooler, and it uses a fraction of the power, and that's exactly where data centers need to go. Just a week or two ago, Nvidia announced a $2 billion investment and a product partnership to plug Marvell's custom accelerators directly into Nvidia's new NVLink Fusion Fabric, essentially naming them the only company on the planet with the optical interconnect expertise to break the copper wire bottleneck inside the world's biggest AI clusters. Here's what tells the real story. 18 months ago, they were losing nearly a billion dollars a year, and today, they're making nearly 2.7 billion in profit. Revenue grew 42% in a single fiscal year to a record $8.2 billion. And 2 years ago, data centers were roughly 40% of their business, and today, it's over 74%. Analysts have Marvell forecasted with 11.7% upside over the next 12 months.
All right, let's move on to the next company of Broadcom, where they build the wireless chips inside nearly every single iPhone, AirPod, and Apple Watch on the planet, locked in by a multi-year $15 billion supply agreement that makes them Apple's primary wireless chip supplier. They also designed the custom AI accelerators that Google uses to train and run its own models, and the networking switch that move traffic inside hyperscaler data centers. And they also own VMware, the software that runs the virtualized backbone of every single Fortune 500 company. Meaning, if Broadcom happened to raise their prices tomorrow, the biggest companies on Earth would have no choice but to pay. And the news just keeps getting bigger, where Anthropic just placed an $11 billion order for custom AI chips, making them the newest mega customer alongside the likes of Google, Meta, ByteDance, and OpenAI. And last quarter, a fifth hyperscaler customer was quietly disclosed that hasn't even been named yet. And Broadcom just started shipping the industry's first 2 nanometer custom AI chip, the most advanced chip ever put into volume production. Here's what really tells the story. Their revenue grew 167% over 5 years, and their free cash flow more than doubled over that same stretch. And last quarter, they posted the highest quarterly revenue in company history, and net income nearly quadrupled in a single year as the VMware acquisition turned into a complete cash machine. Analysts have Broadcom forecasted with 43% upside over the next 12 months.
And that brings us to today's sponsor, North American Niobium and Critical Minerals Corporation, where they plan to mine several of the US's top critical minerals. Now, because the US has a massive problem when it comes to critical minerals, there are zero niobium mines in the US today, and there's only one in Canada. On February 2nd, the US officially declared critical minerals a national priority, because these are the minerals that are behind the F-35 fighters, magnets, precision-guided munitions, drones, AI servers, and even medical imaging. Our reality is that modern armies rely on very specific critical minerals and rare earths. And this all comes down to scarcity and need. Brazil controls 90% of the global supply of niobium, and when it comes to rare earth processing, China controls 85% of it. That means the entire Western defense, space, and medical industries are at the mercy of supply chains that we don't even own. Right now, critical minerals are the new oil of this century. That's why on March 4th, the Defense Logistics Agency issued urgent request for proposals to boost domestic supply of 13 critical minerals. And North American Niobium just got authorized to drill in three projects that they own in Quebec. This mining sector essentially doesn't exist in North America quite yet, which puts them at the earliest window of the rebuilt domestic supply chain. Without a doubt, the demand is there, and the supply is tight and vulnerable. And as always, do your own due diligence on North American Niobium and Critical Minerals. So, please check out the link down in the description.
The next company on the list is Alphabet, where they own the most used search engine on the planet, the largest video platform in YouTube, an Android operating system that runs over 70% of the world's smartphones, and the only cloud business growing faster than Amazon or Microsoft. On top of all of that, they also own Waymo, the robo-taxi service now running in 500,000 paid rides every single week, a tenfold increase in just 18 months, with Tokyo and London expansion soon on deck. 12 months ago, the entire tech world thought that Google had lost the AI war to OpenAI. And today, Gemini 3.1 Pro is the benchmark leader on the hardest reasoning tests on the planet, beating both GPT 5.2 and Claude. But, I have a feeling that's going to flip and switch every single week. And they just crossed 750 million monthly active users. And ChatGPT's US market share collapsed from 87% down to 68% in a single year, while Gemini surged from a simple low 5% to over 18%. That is the most violent share shift in the history of artificial intelligence. Granted, it's only a couple years old. And Google is the only company on Earth that owns the AI model, the chips that train it, and the cloud that runs it all, and the search engine that distributes all of it. Now, if we look at the numbers, their revenue grew 121% in just 5 years, and net income more than tripled over that same stretch. And last quarter, they posted the highest quarterly revenue in company history. This is starting to sound like a trend. Google thinks that they could grow 48% year over year, faster than Amazon or Microsoft. And in 2026, they are spending $185 billion on AI infrastructure. That's nearly double what they spent in 2025. It's the largest single-year AI infrastructure commitment any company has ever made. Once again, this is another item that I think is going to change over the next month or so. Analysts have Google forecasted with 25.7% upside over the next 12 months.
Moving to our next pick, which is the most obvious pick, is Nvidia, where they sit at the very center of every AI dollar that's being spent on the planet. Nvidia just recently started sampling its Vera Rubin, their next-generation AI chip, to every major cloud provider on Earth. Rubin delivers two and a half times the AI performance of today's Blackwell, and is the first chip ever built with HBM4 memory. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle have all lined up to deploy it in the second half of this year. And Nvidia has reportedly booked the entire server plant capacity for the rest of 2026 just to build Blackwell and Rubin systems. On top of all that, they just finalized a $30 investment into OpenAI and a $10 investment in Anthropic, meaning they own equity in the two biggest AI labs on Earth, and they sell them every chip that those labs use. Here's where the numbers get very loud. Revenue grew nearly 13 times in 5 years. In just the last 2 years alone, their revenue more than tripled, and net income more than quadrupled. Last quarter, they posted the highest quarterly revenue in company history, up 73% year over year. Once again, you can start to see the same trend with each of these companies. And their data center revenue alone has scaled nearly 13 times since ChatGPT launched in late 2022. And Nvidia is now the most valuable company on the planet, worth over $4 trillion, larger than any company has ever been in history of the global markets. And a lot of people are worried that Nvidia is overpriced. And the reality is fundamentally they keep hitting and exceeding all of their numbers. And that's why analysts have Nvidia forecasted with a 56.5% upside over the next 12 months.
Our next pick on the list is Micron, where they make the DRAM and the high bandwidth memory chips that sit inside every AI server on the planet. And more critically, they're the only major memory player headquartered on US soil with a US-based supply chain. And I'll get to that in a second. And the reason why that's important is because of the Iranian strikes on Qatar's Ras Laffan complex, one of the largest helium production hubs on Earth. And that destruction has completely choked off the ultra-pure gas that every chip fab needs to etch silicon. And when you roll that back to South Korea, they're home to Samsung and SK Hynix, where they import nearly 65% of its helium from Qatar, where the spot prices have already doubled. And Korean fabs are now rationing their supplies. Meanwhile, Team USA with Micron, they source all of their gases domestically. So they're completely insulated from this choke point entirely. Their HBM 4 memory sits inside Nvidia's new Vera Rubin platform. The same Rubin that we just talked about. And every wafer of 2026 HBM capacity, it's already committed to, which means there's zero near-term uncertainty for them. Now, here's where it gets interesting, because just two fiscal years ago, this company lost nearly $6 billion. But this past quarter alone, they printed over $5 billion in profit in just 90 days. Revenue exploded 196% year-over-year. And their gross margin surged to 75%. And next quarter's guide calls for over 200% growth. And their free cash flow nearly doubled in the last 12 months. And here's the part that I think that the market hasn't fully priced in. That Qatar disruption isn't just simply a one-week headline. There is no timeline for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen. Helium contracts are now carrying 30% plus premiums. And that's on top of the doubled spot prices that were already there. And the Korean competitors, well, they're scrambling for US suppliers. The same ones that Micron already locked down. That margin gap is going to hold for at least the next 12 months. And every quarter it persists is another quarter of pricing power flowing straight to Micron's bottom line. And that's probably why analysts have Micron forecasted with a 47% upside over the next 12 months.
So if I was going to wrap this all up in a bow, here's how I would be putting $100 to work across these five names today. And here's exactly how I would break it up. Going with the big dog, I'm going to put $30 into Nvidia. They are the center of gravity for every AI dollar that's being spent on the planet. Vera Rubin is already sampling and the backlog is booked for years out. This is the anchor of the entire basket. And it gets the largest slice because the conviction for me is the highest. Next, I'd put $20 into Alphabet. You get the most used search engine on the planet, you get YouTube, Waymo, Gemini, and a trillion-dollar cash machine trading at a valuation that still looks cheap relative to the rest of big tech. It's probably one of the safest names on this list. And it's how I'm going to stay in the game when the rest of the basket gets a little bit volatile. Next, I'd put $20 into Broadcom. Custom silicon for five of the biggest hyperscalers on Earth, the wireless chips inside every iPhone, and VMware running inside 100% of the Fortune 500 companies. This is the quiet compounder, the name that most people underestimate until they look at the five-year chart. Next, I'd put $20 into Micron. They're the only major memory player with a US supply chain while their Korean competitors scramble for helium. HBM 4 is sitting inside Vera Rubin and a 12-month margin runway that the market has not fully priced in. And next, I'd put $10 into Marvell. This is the asymmetric pick. It's kind of the smallest name on the list and it's the highest volatility and the biggest potential multiple if the Nvidia partnership plays out the way that I think it will.
There you have it. That's what I'd have for my full allocation. Now, of course, you would have to adjust the sizing to your own risk tolerance, but the ranking for me kind of stays the same. I hope that you found something useful in today's video. And as always, thank you so much for watching.