Last week, one of the “safest” stocks on Wall Street dropped 18% in a single day. And it’s not the last one.

Houston breaks down what happened and why it matters for your portfolio in yesterday’s Daily below.

But here’s what you should know first.

While “safe” tech stocks are getting destroyed by AI, our Asymmetric Edge subscribers have outperformed the S&P 500 by 3x since we launched in December. One position already delivered a 139% win. Another has 1,833% upside potential.

These aren’t the same AI stocks everyone is chasing. These are the companies AI can’t live without.

See what they’re buying right now.

I’m only 32. That’s young enough that I’m supposed to feel like time is on my side. But after the health scares I’ve had in the last two years, I don’t feel that way anymore.

I’ve had an upper endoscopy. I’ve had tubes stuck down my nose at least four times. I wake up in the middle of the night feeling like there’s a piano on my chest, making it hard to breathe… And the doctors can’t figure out why.

Medication helps at first, but then the chest pain always comes back.

It’s made me think about time differently. I think about money differently now, too.

When you’re healthy, it’s easy to tell yourself you can wait 10 years for a stock to come back. It’s easy to treat a bad investment like a temporary inconvenience. It’s easy to say, “I’ll make it back later.”

But when life reminds you how quickly things can change, “later” starts to feel like a dangerous word.

You start thinking about your parents getting older. About the family you want to build. About the kind of financial foundation you’ll need if life doesn’t move in a straight line.

I don’t want that foundation tied to a guessing game over which AI software stock Wall Street decides to bless next quarter.

Maybe your future looks different than mine. Maybe it’s the retirement you’ve spent decades working toward… The years when you finally get to travel, spend real time with your grandkids, take that cooking class, do what YOU want WHEN you want.

Those years don’t have a do-over. Neither does the portfolio that’s supposed to fund them. That’s why what happened with ServiceNow last week matters.

The “Safe” Stocks in Your Portfolio Are Now Ticking Time Bombs

A few weeks ago, investors were bracing for the worst as the Iran war scare rattled markets. Then the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ripped back to fresh all-time highs so fast that anyone waiting for a clean entry point got left behind.

That kind of “lockout” rally makes people want to chase. But chasing the wrong stocks after a vertical move is exactly how you turn a short-term frustration into a long-term mistake.

We saw that with ServiceNow last week.

On Thursday, it had its worst trading day ever, with shares falling 18%. It dragged the broader software sector down with it. Major software names like Salesforce, Workday, and Intuit dropped as much as 9.4%.

Now, this isn’t just some tiny speculative tech stock. It’s one of the most important enterprise software companies in the world, with 8,700 customers and $13 billion in revenues.

It sells workflow software to large corporations… Which is exactly the kind of business Wall Street has spent years treating as a bulletproof compounder.

Think about it. Enterprise software stocks are buried inside nearly every major index fund. So even if you don’t own ServiceNow directly, you likely still have exposure to the same kind of risk.

And if AI can turn a “safe” blue-chip software stock into a landmine overnight, I don’t want to be blindly chasing the rest of the pack.

Why Even Great Companies Are Getting Crushed

ServiceNow didn’t suddenly become a bad company. It got hit because investors are starting to ask a hard question: What happens if AI doesn’t help software companies but disrupts their business models instead?

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) companies built their entire businesses around human workflows. For years, they were valued based on the understanding that every new employee meant another seat, another license, another recurring payment.

ServiceNow’s $13 billion in revenue exists because 8,700 companies pay for software humans use to manage other humans. But AI agents don’t have seats. They don’t log in.

The question for software companies like ServiceNow then becomes: Do their pricing models survive a world where the “users” are AI agents? In other words, do bots really need software as a service?

It’s the modern version of the mistake Daily Editor Teeka Tiwari has been warning you about. Here’s what he wrote in the April 10 Daily…

In the year 2000, Microsoft, AOL, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Coca-Cola, Walmart and Intel had near monopolies in their respective industries. They were printing stadium-sized stacks of cash. There was no debate. These were great companies.

But if you held these stocks equally from their peaks in 2000… By 2015, your total gain, including dividends, would’ve been minus-36%. You had a diversified basket of the best names of the day and still got financially wrecked.

That’s what the market is starting to price in with ServiceNow.

It’s realizing AI may break the seat-based SaaS pricing model that made these “safe” software companies so valuable in the first place. It’s why even the strongest SaaS names can drop 18% on a decent earnings report.

That’s what makes this market so confusing. Investors know many software companies are in big trouble in this new AI world. They just can’t figure out which ones. It’s a “sell-now, ask-questions-later” kind of market.

It’s not the time to blindly chase the same AI software names as everyone else. Instead, the question you should be asking is: Who makes money no matter which AI tech company wins?

These Businesses Win No Matter What

That’s the message Teeka has been sharing with you for months now. And over at The Asymmetric Edge, it’s paid off for our subscribers.

Since we launched that research service on December 23, our model portfolio has returned 11% overall. Compare that with just 3.7% for the S&P 500 and 5.4% for the tech-heavy Nasdaq.

Meanwhile, popular AI plays like Microsoft, Palantir, and Oracle have gotten crushed, down 23%, 31%, and 50% from their recent highs.

How have our subscribers outperformed the major indexes by as much as 3x? Because we’re not paying nosebleed prices for companies that still have to prove AI will improve their margins instead of cannibalizing them.

Instead, we’re focused on the companies AI cannot grow without.

The energy providers powering the data centers. The grid infrastructure companies upgrading America’s outdated electrical backbone. The industrial firms using AI to make legacy businesses faster, leaner, and more profitable.

These are the overlooked companies becoming essential to the next phase of the AI buildout. That’s where, based on our research, we believe the biggest gains will be made over the next 5-7 years.

The Better Way to Buy This Rally

In a market like this, the real edge is finding the companies with asymmetric upside before the crowd fully understands the story. That’s exactly the type of company you’ll find inside The Asymmetric Edge.

In our special report, The Genesis Mission: The Top Three Companies Powering the AI Revolution, Teeka identified the companies he believes will profit most from AI, no matter which chatbot model wins or which software names survive the shakeout.

One of these companies provides critical backup power to the PJM, which is the largest electricity grid in North America.

Another is positioned to benefit from surging demand for domestic uranium enrichment as data centers look for cleaner, more reliable power sources. 

Based on our research, it has the potential to deliver gains of up to 1,833% as the AI energy buildout accelerates.

And a third, called Bloom Energy (BE), sells around-the-clock power directly to data centers. It already allowed our subscribers to book a 139% win for a “free ride,” with plenty more room to run.

If you’re interested in the full list of the stocks Teeka considers a screaming “buy” right now, you can watch his recent briefing to learn more.

With the market consolidating for seven months, there’s a lot of pent-up energy. Our research shows this is the beginning of a much bigger move higher. And you want to be positioned in the stocks that win no matter which way the AI race goes.

Because missing the first leg of the broad market rally doesn’t mean you missed the whole move. It just means that, as we saw with ServiceNow, you need to be more selective about what you buy next.

AI is turning yesterday’s safe SaaS names into today’s big question marks. But no matter which tech companies win the AI race, we know they will ALL need more power, more data center infrastructure, more copper.

Don’t Watch the Future Happen. Own It!

Houston Molnar

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