A group of small- and mid-cap Nasdaq names, from AI consulting and enterprise software to a freelance marketplace and a defense-tech outlier, shows how uneven the road to profitability has become as companies court corporate spending in the age of generative AI. The Hackett …
Grouping five companies under one headline is a convenience, not a thesis. Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR), Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX), Aether Holdings (NASDAQ:ATHR), i3 Verticals (NASDAQ:IIIV) and OptimizeRx (NASDAQ:OPRX) sit at opposite ends of the size and quality spectrum, from a profitable multibillion-dollar SaaS platform to a …
Bitcoin US Dollar traded at $76,899 on Tuesday, September 15, decreasing $1,260, or 1.61%, since the previous trading session.
TheNasdaqComposite entered September 2026 near record territory, but theindexno longer moves as one bloc. Beneath the megacap AI trade, second-tier software and technology-services companies are being judged on their own numbers: recurring revenue, margins,Cash Flowand whether "AI" is a slide or a line item.
The chip cycle turned during the first half of 2026, and by mid-September the recovery is no longer a forecast, it is showing up in reported numbers. Yet the five tickers in this headline do not move as one block. Two of them, Microchip …
The AI story that pushed theNasdaqComposite to fresh records through the summer of 2026 is usually told through a handful of megacap names. But the machinery behind that rally reaches far below the marquee designers. It runs through the foundries that fabricate specialty analog …
Walk down the electronic-technology aisle of theNasdaqComposite in September 2026 and the range of outcomes is striking. Analog Devices (NASDAQ:ADI) just booked its first $4 billion quarter. Onsemi (NASDAQ:ON) is retooling around AI power and physical AI through a major acquisition. Gilat (NASDAQ:GILT) is …
Every leap in artificial intelligence eventually runs into a physical bottleneck: someone has to manufacture the chips. That reality has pushed semiconductor-equipment and advanced-manufacturing stocks toward the center of theNasdaqComposite conversation this year. When hyperscalers commit tens of billions to data centers, the money …
TheNasdaqComposite spent the summer of 2026 testing new ground, having pushed above the 20,000 mark on the back of artificial-intelligence enthusiasm and hopes for easier policy. Yet beneath that headline sit companies moving in almost opposite directions.
The story of semiconductors in 2026 has not been about a single leading-edge chipmaker. It has been about the wider machinery around artificial-intelligence compute: the memory that feeds accelerators, the equipment that inspects wafers, the packaging that stitches silicon together, and the power and …