Holistic analysis · derived

@aleabitoreddit's investment universe

Every name he discusses, judged by reading his whole post history per company — not scored tweet-by-tweet. Distinguishes what he actually owns from what he merely covers.

180

Companies

Owned / likely

114

Coverage only

US 129 · Europe 20 · Asia 18 · Other 13

By region

Estimate, not disclosed holdings. Positions here are reconstructed from public posts by a language model and a deterministic ledger — sizes are inferred, not stated, and the result is often approximate. Not investment advice. How accurate is this? · Updated 2026-06-16

The whole picture · 2026-01-11 → 2026-06-16

He front-runs the AI photonics buildout by buying the obscure upstream chokepoints — lasers, substrates and epiwafers — that feed NVDA's and the hyperscalers' optical roadmap.

Across the full 6 months (1,231 tweets, Jan 11 - Jun 16) @aleabitoreddit runs a concentrated, supply-chain-mapping book centered on the AI optical-interconnect / co-packaged-optics (CPO) supercycle. He starts from NVDA and the hyperscalers (GOOGL, META, MSFT, AMZN) as the demand anchor, then works backward to the smallest, most overlooked upstream suppliers and buys those: InP lasers (SIVE — by far his largest position at 270 mentions, a ~$140M Swedish small-cap he calls his next 10x), InP substrates (AXTI), SOI substrates (SOI/Soitec), compound-semi epiwafers (IQE), photonics foundries (TSEM, XFAB), US transceivers (AAOI), and glass-core/advanced-packaging tooling (LPK, AEHR, ONTO, AMKR). LITE and COHR are his large-cap optical anchors. Around this core sit a memory supercycle sleeve (MU, SNDK, EWY as a Samsung/Hynix proxy, SIMO), a neocloud sleeve (NBIS long, CRWV/IREN as shorts), and a rotating set of satellite themes: AI power/grid (XLU, HPS.A, NVTS), defense/drones (AVAV, LASR, OSS), space (RKLB, SPCX), fintech/crypto (CRCL, COIN, HOOD, ETOR), and a few high-margin software compounders (RDDT, RPI, META). The universe is 172 names but heavily concentrated — the top ~15 tickers carry most of the volume, and ownership is explicit and high-conviction in the photonics core, with mega-caps mostly used as context rather than positions.

His framework

Supply-chain back-mapping plus "buy what's upstream of NVDA." He treats NVDA's roadmap (HBM, CoWoS, CPO/photonics, 800V DC) as a telegraph of where demand will land, then hunts the smallest merchant chokepoint supplier (laser, substrate, epiwafer, foundry, packaging tool) that the big names quietly depend on, favoring deep-value small/micro-caps validated by design-wins, CHIPS-Act/policy catalysts and OSINT discovery, and holding with conviction.

Themes

AI photonics / optical interconnect (CPO)peak Persistent Jan-Jun; peaked Mar-May as SIVE (first 3/16) and SOI (first 3/1) ramped into the highest-volume months

His dominant theme by a wide margin: the light-source and substrate chokepoints for co-packaged optics and silicon photonics. Spans his single largest position (SIVE, InP lasers), upstream materials (AXTI InP substrates, SOI/Soitec SOI, IQE epiwafers), photonics foundries (TSEM, XFAB, GFS), US transceivers (AAOI) and large-cap optical anchors (LITE, COHR, plus MRVL, POET, MTSI). Sustained the entire period and intensified after SIVE entered in mid-March.

Memory / NAND-DRAM supercyclepeak Steady from January onward; a foundational early theme that stayed live all period

Structural AI-driven memory shortage thesis: DRAM/HBM/NAND price hikes and multi-year prepayments. MU and SNDK are the core longs, EWY a leveraged proxy for Samsung/SK Hynix, with SIMO as a backdoor controller play and ONTO/AEHR/FORM as memory-packaging metrology/test.

$MU $SNDK $EWY $SIMO $ONTO $FORM

Advanced packaging & semicap chokepointspeak Built through Q2; LPK turned active long in April

Tooling and OSAT bottlenecks for HBM/CPO: glass-core substrate equipment (LPK), burn-in/test (AEHR), metrology (ONTO), OSAT/packaging (AMKR, ASX, TOWA). Framed as the 'made-in-America' reshoring and capacity-constraint trade.

$LPK $AEHR $AMKR $ONTO $TOWA $ASX

AI power / grid bottleneckpeak Peaked Feb-Apr (XLU pitched Feb, cooled by April); HPS.A picked up early April

The 'boring sector about to re-rate' on data-center electricity demand: utilities (XLU), transformers/switchgear (HPS.A), and 800V GaN/SiC power (NVTS, WOLF). Pitched via LEAPS and macro framing.

$XLU $HPS.A $NVTS $WOLF $VRT $VICR

Neocloudspeak Live all period; the bearish IREN/CRWV calls sharpened mid-period

AI cloud capacity plays, expressed as long-short: NBIS as his favored sum-of-parts long versus CRWV and IREN as the structurally weak, over-levered shorts.

$NBIS $CRWV $IREN

Defense / drones & spacepeak Drones peaked Jan-Feb then faded; space (SPCX) spiked late May-June around the IPO

War-trade exposure on US military escalation: drones (AVAV, OSS, ONDS), directed-energy lasers (LASR), and space (RKLB, SPCX). The drone sleeve was an early-year winner that he admits soured by March.

$AVAV $LASR $OSS $RKLB $SPCX $RTX

Fintech / crypto & high-margin compounderspeak CRCL peaked Feb-Apr on its double; RPI ramped Feb-Mar

A satellite sleeve: stablecoins (CRCL), exchanges (COIN, HOOD, ETOR, IBKR) and undisruptable network-effect 'money printers' (RDDT, RPI, META). CRCL and RDDT are genuine high-conviction longs; BKKT/PYPL serve as dilution/value-trap cautionary shorts.

$CRCL $COIN $HOOD $ETOR $RDDT $RPI $META

How his focus evolved

Jan 11 - Jan 31 (~82 tweets)

Lays the foundational map. Establishes the optical/photonics and memory cores almost immediately — AXTI (1/12), MU & TSM (1/11), LITE, IQE, COHR, POET, AEHR, SNDK and NVDA all enter in January — alongside an early defense/drone and crypto burst (AVAV, ONDS, CRCL, COIN, RKLB). Lowest-volume month; thesis-building phase.

Feb (~167 tweets)

Volume doubles. Adds the AI-power/grid trade (XLU pitched ~2/19, VRT, CEG) and broadens semicap/packaging (TSEM enters 2/11, CAMT, KLIC). RPI introduced as a 'fun' long (2/16) and HIMS, FN, AAPL appear. Memory and optical cores deepen.

March (~290 tweets, peak month)

His busiest month and the pivot to his signature trade: SIVE enters 3/16 and instantly becomes the dominant position, SOI taken as a sizable long (first 3/1), JBL (3/19) emerges as Sivers validation, ARM (3/24) and a wave of upstream materials/rare-earth and OSAT names appear. Drone sleeve (AVAV) admitted as a loser. Photonics supply-chain mapping goes into overdrive.

April (~271 tweets)

Consolidation around winners. LPK (4/3) turns into an active flagship long, HPS.A (4/7) added as the transformer/grid play, ALRIB (4/8) folded into 'owned European monopolies.' XLU cools to just-one-of-many. Heavy single-mention breadth (a 4/3 and 4/11 idea-dump) shows wide scanning around a stable core.

May (~289 tweets)

Re-acceleration on the photonics core. XFAB enters late May (5/27) on the EU CHIPS Act 2 catalyst; POWI and SPCX (5/25) appear. SIVE/SOI/AXTI/LITE keep compounding mentions; victory-lap posts on RPI, CRCL, SOI. Memory and packaging names persist.

June 1 - 16 (~132 tweets, partial)

Holding the core into period-end. SIVE, NVDA, AAOI, AMD all carry mentions to the final day; SPCX IPO tracking continues; XFAB, ALRIB, LPK still active. Tone shifts to 'just seeing how things go' on held core-basket names — a maintain/monitor posture rather than new initiations.

Rotations: He rotated through satellite themes while keeping the photonics/optical core constant. The period opened with a defense/drones + crypto burst (Jan), which faded fast — he admitted by March that drones (AVAV, ONDS) had become his biggest losers and de-risked. February brought the AI-power/grid trade (XLU, HPS.A) to the front, which itself cooled by April into 'one name among thirty.' The decisive rotation was in March, when SIVE/SOI/JBL turned the optical theme from one sleeve among several into the unambiguous center of gravity, pulling upstream materials (AXTI, IQE) and packaging (LPK, AEHR) along with it. Late-period rotations were policy-driven add-ons rather than pivots — XFAB on the EU CHIPS Act (May), SPCX around its IPO (late May-June) — layered onto an essentially unchanged photonics-and-memory core that he simply held and monitored into June.

All names

AllOwnedCoverage·All regionsUSEuropeAsiaOther180 names

Ticker	Company	Region	Owned?	Centrality	Conviction ▼	Stance	Posts
$AXTI	axt inc	US	YES	CORE	10	bullish	152
$SIVE	sivers	Europe	YES	CORE	10	bullish	270
$3105	Win Semiconductors (WIN Semi)	Asia	YES	CORE	9	bullish	10
$3363	FOCI Fiber Optic Communications	Asia	YES	CORE	9	bullish	12
$6451	Shunsin Technology	Asia	YES	CORE	9	bullish	15
$6830	MSSCorps	Asia	YES	CORE	9	bullish	8
$AAOI	applied optoelectronics	US	YES	CORE	9	bullish	93
$AEHR	aehr test systems	US	YES	MAJOR	9	bullish	40
$EWY	iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (Samsung Electronics / SK Hynix proxy)	Asia	YES	CORE	9	bullish	49
$IQE	iqe plc	Europe	YES	CORE	9	bullish	65
$LPK	lpkf laser & electronics	Europe	YES	CORE	9	bullish	35
$MU	micron technology	US	YES	CORE	9	bullish	63
$NBIS	nebius group	Europe	YES	CORE	9	bullish	50
$RDDT	reddit	US	YES	CORE	9	bullish	33
$SOI	soitec	US	YES	CORE	9	bullish	64
$TSEM	tower semiconductor	Other	YES	CORE	9	bullish	53
$BKKT	Bakkt Holdings	US	coverage	MAJOR	9	bearish	11
$BMNR	bitmine immersion	US	coverage	MINOR	9	bearish	6
$LWLG	lightwave logic	US	coverage	MINOR	9	bearish	14
$8147	Nextronics Engineering	Asia	YES	CORE	8	bullish	5
$ARM	arm holdings	Europe	YES	MAJOR	8	bullish	24
$AVAV	aerovironment	US	YES	MAJOR	8	bullish	11
$CRCL	circle internet group	US	YES	MAJOR	8	bullish	28
$HPS.A	hammond	Other	YES	MAJOR	8	bullish	17
$INTC	Intel Corporation	US	YES	MAJOR	8	bullish	42
$RKLB	rocket lab	US	YES	MAJOR	8	bullish	26
$SIVEF	Sivers Semiconductors	Europe	PROBABLY	CORE	8	bullish	12
$SNDK	sandisk	US	YES	CORE	8	bullish	72
$TOWA	Towa Corporation	Asia	YES	CORE	8	bullish	5
$XFAB	x-fab silicon foundries	Europe	YES	CORE	8	bullish	20
$XLU	Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU)	US	PROBABLY	MAJOR	8	bullish	13
$BOT	BOT (humanoid robotics holding vehicle with a Figure AI stake)	US	coverage	MAJOR	8	bearish	4
$CRWV	coreweave	US	coverage	MAJOR	8	bearish	13
$IBKR	interactive brokers	US	coverage	MAJOR	8	bullish	11
$IREN	iris energy	Other	coverage	MAJOR	8	bearish	33
$NVDA	NVIDIA	US	coverage	CORE	8	bullish	130
$PYPL	paypal holdings	US	coverage	PASSING	8	bearish	11
$SLNH	Soluna Holdings	US	coverage	MINOR	8	bearish	4
$VCX	VCX (private-AI/space exposure ETF-style fund; holdings include SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Anduril)	US	coverage	CORE	8	bearish	6
$ALRIB	riber	Europe	YES	MAJOR	7	bullish	25
$AMKR	amkor technology	US	PROBABLY	MAJOR	7	bullish	16
$ETOR	etoro group	Other	YES	MINOR	7	bullish	10
$IBIT	iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (BlackRock)	US	YES	MAJOR	7	bullish	6
$LASR	nlight	US	YES	MAJOR	7	bullish	12
$LITE	Lumentum Holdings	US	YES	MAJOR	7	bullish	230
$META	Meta Platforms	US	YES	MAJOR	7	bullish	39
$ONTO	onto innovation	US	YES	MINOR	7	bullish	11
$RPI	raspberry pi holdings	Europe	YES	MAJOR	7	bullish	34
$SIMO	silicon motion technology	Asia	YES	MINOR	7	bullish	8
$TSM	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC)	Asia	YES	MAJOR	7	bullish	41
$6324	Harmonic Drive Systems	Asia	YES	MAJOR	6	bullish	6
$AEVA	aeva technologies	US	YES	MAJOR	6	bullish	9
$AMSC	American Superconductor Corporation	US	PROBABLY	MAJOR	6	bullish	5
$COHR	coherent	US	YES	MAJOR	6	bullish	52
$COIN	Coinbase	US	YES	MAJOR	6	mixed	11
$CPSH	cps technologies	US	YES	MINOR	6	bullish	4
$CVX	Chevron	US	PROBABLY	MINOR	6	bullish	9
$FLNC	—	US	YES	MAJOR	6	bullish	7
$HIMS	hims & hers health	US	PROBABLY	MAJOR	6	mixed	21
$LPTH	lightpath technologies	US	YES	MINOR	6	bullish	14
$MRVL	marvell technology	US	YES	MAJOR	6	bullish	63
$OSS	one stop systems	US	YES	MINOR	6	bullish	13
$VPG	vishay precision group	US	YES	MAJOR	6	bullish	24
$AVGO	Broadcom	US	coverage	MAJOR	6	bullish	50
$CODA	coda octopus group	US	coverage	MINOR	6	bullish	6
$GLW	corning	US	coverage	MINOR	6	bullish	11
$KRKNF	kraken robotics	Other	coverage	MINOR	6	bullish	7
$MP	mp materials	US	coverage	MINOR	6	bullish	7
$MXL	—	US	coverage	MINOR	6	bullish	4
$VNP	5N Plus Inc.	Other	coverage	MINOR	6	bullish	4
$VST	vistra corp	US	coverage	MINOR	6	bullish	4
$AIRO	AIRO Group Holdings	US	YES	MINOR	5	bullish	7
$CIFR	cipher digital	US	PROBABLY	MINOR	5	bullish	7
$CRDO	credo technology group	US	YES	MINOR	5	bullish	9
$DPRO	Draganfly Inc.	Other	YES	MINOR	5	bullish	3
$MSTR	MicroStrategy (Strategy)	US	PROBABLY	MINOR	5	bullish	7
$NVTS	navitas semiconductor	US	YES	MINOR	5	bullish	11
$P4O	planoptik ag	Europe	YES	MINOR	5	bullish	4
$PLPC	Preformed Line Products Company	US	PROBABLY	MINOR	5	bullish	3
$TTD	the trade desk	US	YES	MINOR	5	bullish	3
$VLN	Valens Semiconductor	Other	YES	MINOR	5	bullish	7
$3081	LandMark Optoelectronics	Asia	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	4
$AMZN	Amazon	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	60
$CAMT	camtek	Other	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	7
$COPX	Global X Copper Miners ETF	US	coverage	PASSING	5	bullish	3
$FORM	formfactor	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	11
$JBL	jabil	US	coverage	MAJOR	5	bullish	41
$JPM	JPMorgan Chase	US	coverage	PASSING	5	bullish	5
$LMT	—	US	coverage	PASSING	5	bullish	6
$NOC	northrop grumman	US	coverage	PASSING	5	bullish	7
$PL	planet labs	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	4
$SMCI	super micro computer	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	7
$SMTC	semtech	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	6
$TER	teradyne	US	coverage	PASSING	5	bullish	9
$U	Unity Software	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	3
$UMAC	Unusual Machines	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	3
$USAR	usa rare earth	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	5
$VIAV	viavi solutions	US	coverage	PASSING	5	bullish	3
$VICR	vicor corp	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	8
$VRT	vertiv holdings	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	8
$XLE	Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE)	US	coverage	MINOR	5	bullish	3
$GDRZF	Gold Reserve Ltd	Other	PROBABLY	PASSING	4	bullish	5
$GOOGL	Alphabet (Google)	US	PROBABLY	MAJOR	4	bullish	50
$HOOD	robinhood	US	YES	MAJOR	4	mixed	29
$INFQ	Infleqtion	US	YES	MINOR	4	bullish	3
$AMBA	ambarella	US	coverage	PASSING	4	bullish	4
$AMD	Advanced Micro Devices	US	coverage	MINOR	4	bullish	33
$ASTS	ast spacemobile	US	coverage	PASSING	4	mixed	3
$BULL	Webull	US	coverage	PASSING	4	bullish	3
$ETH	Ethereum	US	coverage	MINOR	4	bullish	4
$LPKFF	LPKF Laser & Electronics	Europe	coverage	MINOR	4	bullish	3
$PINS	pinterest	US	coverage	PASSING	4	bullish	4
$VECO	veeco instruments	US	coverage	MINOR	4	bullish	7
$XOM	Exxon Mobil	US	coverage	PASSING	4	bullish	3
$5801	Furukawa Electric	Asia	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	4
$ALAB	astera labs	US	coverage	MINOR	3	mixed	5
$ALMU	Almu (quantum dot / photonics technology company)	US	coverage	PASSING	3	mixed	4
$AMAT	Applied Materials	US	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	6
$ASML	ASML Holding	Europe	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	10
$ASX	ASE Technology Holding	Asia	coverage	MINOR	3	bullish	13
$ATEYY	advantest	Asia	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	3
$BESI	be semiconductor industries	Europe	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	3
$CEG	constellation energy	US	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	4
$DUOL	duolingo	US	coverage	PASSING	3	mixed	6
$FIG	—	US	coverage	PASSING	3	mixed	4
$FLKR	Franklin FTSE South Korea ETF	Asia	coverage	MINOR	3	bullish	3
$FN	fabrinet	Other	coverage	MINOR	3	bullish	20
$GFS	globalfoundries	US	coverage	MINOR	3	bullish	30
$GLXY	Galaxy Digital	US	coverage	MINOR	3	bullish	4
$KEYS	keysight technologies	US	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	6
$KLAC	kla corporation	US	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	6
$KLIC	kulicke & soffa	Asia	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	3
$MSFT	Microsoft	US	coverage	MINOR	3	bullish	40
$MTSI	macom technology solutions	US	coverage	MINOR	3	bullish	27
$NEO	Neo Performance Materials	Other	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	3
$ON	on semiconductor	US	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	4
$ONDS	ondas inc	US	coverage	MINOR	3	bullish	10
$ORCL	Oracle	US	coverage	MINOR	3	mixed	17
$PLAB	photronics	US	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	4
$PLTR	palantir	US	coverage	MINOR	3	mixed	11
$POET	poet technologies	Other	coverage	MAJOR	3	mixed	38
$POWL	powell industries	US	coverage	PASSING	3	bullish	5
$SNAP	snap inc	US	coverage	MAJOR	3	mixed	11
$SPCX	SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies)	US	coverage	MAJOR	3	bullish	11
$TSLA	Tesla	US	coverage	MAJOR	3	bullish	30
$WOLF	wolfspeed	US	coverage	MINOR	3	mixed	10
$AAPL	Apple Inc.	US	coverage	MINOR	2	bullish	31
$AIXA	aixtron se	Europe	coverage	PASSING	2	mixed	3
$APH	amphenol	US	coverage	PASSING	2	neutral	5
$ASPI	asp isotopes	US	coverage	PASSING	2	mixed	3
$BE	bloom energy	US	coverage	PASSING	2	bullish	3
$BIRD	Allbirds	US	coverage	MINOR	2	bearish	3
$CDNS	—	US	coverage	PASSING	2	neutral	3
$CIEN	ciena	US	coverage	PASSING	2	bullish	3
$EOS	electro optic systems	US	coverage	PASSING	2	bullish	3
$ETN	eaton corporation	Europe	coverage	PASSING	2	bullish	5
$HIMX	himax technologies	Asia	coverage	MINOR	2	mixed	8
$IFNNY	Infineon Technologies	Europe	coverage	PASSING	2	bullish	3
$NEE	—	US	coverage	PASSING	2	mixed	3
$OPTT	ocean power technologies	US	coverage	PASSING	2	bullish	3
$OUST	—	US	coverage	PASSING	2	neutral	3
$SLV	iShares Silver Trust (silver ETF)	US	coverage	MINOR	2	mixed	6
$TDY	teledyne technologies	US	coverage	PASSING	2	neutral	3
$UMC	united microelectronics	Asia	coverage	PASSING	2	bullish	3
$WDC	western digital	US	coverage	PASSING	2	bullish	3
$APPL	Apple	US	coverage	PASSING	1	neutral	7
$ASST	strive asset management	US	coverage	PASSING	1	bearish	8
$BA	Boeing	US	coverage	PASSING	1	neutral	3
$CSCO	Cisco Systems	US	coverage	PASSING	1	neutral	3
$NOK	nokia	Europe	coverage	PASSING	1	bullish	14
$NVO	Novo Nordisk	Europe	coverage	PASSING	1	mixed	13
$POWI	—	US	coverage	PASSING	1	neutral	5
$QLCM	Qualcomm	US	coverage	PASSING	1	neutral	5
$RGTI	rigetti computing	US	coverage	PASSING	1	bearish	5
$RTX	rtx corporation	US	coverage	PASSING	1	neutral	8
$SPY	SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	US	coverage	MINOR	1	neutral	7
$STM	stabilus	Europe	coverage	PASSING	1	neutral	3
$YSS	York Space Systems	US	coverage	PASSING	1	bullish	5
$AMC	AMC Entertainment Holdings	US	coverage	PASSING	0	neutral	5
$ERIC	ericsson	Europe	coverage	PASSING	0	neutral	4

Caveats

Derived from per-company judgments and tweet-timing metadata only — no raw post text was read, so all characterizations are paraphrase and inference, not his own words.
Mention volume (tweet_count) measures attention, not position size or P&L; only a few names carry any stated weight, and 'likely_owned' is an inferred label, not confirmed holdings.
Timeline phases are reconstructed from first/last mention dates and monthly tweet counts, which proxy when a name entered the conversation, not when he actually bought or sold.
The June bucket is a partial month (through the 16th), so its lower volume is a truncation artifact, not necessarily declining activity.
Ownership/stance labels carry intrinsic uncertainty (PROBABLY / PROBABLY_NOT / UNCLEAR values exist), and bearish/validator names (CRWV, IREN, NVDA, AAPL, JBL) appear in the data as coverage, not positions.
A single-day idea-dump (e.g. the 4/3 and 4/11, 5/12 clusters of one-mention tickers) inflates breadth and can overstate the number of genuine themes versus passing commentary.
This is descriptive analysis of a stock-picking influencer's public posting behavior, not investment advice and not an endorsement of any thesis.