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2026-07-08

Serenity leans into conviction as space valuations reset and Meta expands, brushing off drawdown fears

A noisy macro tape gave Serenity, the stock-picker tracked here, plenty to react to on Tuesday, but his message was one of steadiness: hold the upstream chokepoints through the volatility.

Space valuations reset higher. Serenity flagged a report that Blue Origin is raising roughly $10 billion at a $130 billion valuation, arguing the private-market anchor is good news for listed space names by comparison. He tied it to Rocket Lab (RKLB), the reusable-rocket maker he considers SpaceX's chief listed rival and a long-term conviction holding he says he has owned since around $16. He also mentioned AST SpaceMobile (ASTS), a satellite-to-phone play whose valuation hinges on getting hardware launched — a name he watches but does not own. His framing: if SpaceX and Blue Origin command such rich private marks, the public comparables look cheap by relative anchoring. Separately, he touched on SpaceX (SPCX) itself, noting xAI's Grok 4.5 appears to have reached top-tier model quality at lower cost, a dynamic he compared to Chinese vendors competing on price and adoption.

A conviction manifesto during drawdowns. The centerpiece of the day was a post pushing back on retail's tendency to panic-sell 30–60% drops as "falling knives." Serenity reframed those declines as chances to accumulate long-term ownership at cheaper valuations, so long as the underlying thesis is intact. He named his anchors: Nebius (NBIS), the Dutch AI-cloud "Neocloud" he calls a future hyperscaler and cites as projecting $7–9 billion in annualized revenue by Q4; AXT Inc (AXTI), the indium-phosphide (InP) substrate maker he argues controls roughly 40% of the InP supply chain — InP being the compound-semiconductor material behind high-speed lasers and photonics; and Sivers (SIVE), the tiny Swedish maker of CW DFB lasers, the continuous-wave light source that feeds co-packaged optics (putting the optical engine next to the switch or GPU die). He also cited CCXI, which he frames as a US humanoid-robotics play inside a future trillion-dollar theme. He stressed this is not advice, noting a crash would be devastating for anyone investing rent or tuition money, and that timeframe and risk tolerance should govern each person's choices. His own approach: trim margin or hedge if needed, but don't sell a thesis that hasn't broken.

Meta capex, defended again. Serenity highlighted Meta Platforms (META) planning a new $10 billion data center in Canada, using it to rebut media narratives that the company is overbuilding or cutting AI capex. Meta remains his profitable-hyperscaler anchor — a mega-cap he argues still grows 30%-plus while its AI spending delivers real returns, and one whose cash flow effectively funds his more speculative upstream semiconductor and photonics bets.

He also noted the day's geopolitical headlines — a reported collapse of a US-Iran memorandum and trade threats against Spain — with a wry acknowledgment that markets remain hard to read.

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