Intel On The Move After Reporting Results… And “Nonchalant” Market Warning 4/23/26

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One of our traders says it's headed even lower. They're going to lay out the case coming up. Plus, what's got shares of United Rentals jumping? No idea, Joe. Isn't that a Karen? Yes, it is. Nice work. Thank you. I know. I do my... I'm prepared. I'm wearing Lululemon pants. Lululemon goes downward a dog. I'm never sure what to think of that after naming its next CEO. and healthcare headaches, why the chart master sees even more pain ahead for the worst performing sector this year. I'm Joe Kernan, in case you don't know. In for Melissa Lee, coming to you live from Studio B, above where Squawk Box is. But we're at the NASDAQ on the desk tonight. We've got Tim Seymour, Karen Feinerman, Dan Nathan, and Carter Worth. And we're going to start with Intel surging after reporting first quarter results. How much do we own? Can we order in tonight? I mean, as just taxpayers, how much do we do we own? The government. Yes. Yes. Isn't that originally? Isn't it the royal way? I thought you were saying we can own Intel. We can only own. We can only own Versant and happy to do so. But we're ordering in. Yes, because Intel stock did hit an all time high just in after us right now. And what's driving it isn't just the numbers. It's really where the growth is coming from. So data center revenue came in over five billion bucks, well above estimates as agentic AI drives a surge in CPU demand. The CFO, Dave Zisner, told me they're so constrained on the server side that they're shifting PC production capacity over to meet data center demand more so in the second half of the year. They've also been raising their average selling costs for PCs as well as CPUs to offset the supply crunch within the CPU part and then the memory costs on the PC part. But with higher pricing flowing through the second quarter, the CFO said both pricing and improving output will be meaningful contributors to revenue growth. On the foundry front, this is what Wall Street is definitely watching. The segment still has essentially one internal customer. The CFO said 18A yields, which is a more advanced manufacturing process, are tracking better than expected. And 14A, which is not expected until 2028, is already ahead of where 18A was at the same stage. In other words, they are doing better on both fronts. However, they did not announce a new partner or a new customer. He also said advanced packaging is now shaping up as a multi-billion dollar per customer business. And then lastly, tariff fab. The CFO called the Elon Musk partnership, quote, a great endorsement of Intel's foundry and said there are, quote, many other customers behind, end quote, with Elon. A detail still being worked out, though, with both CEOs. Intel is trying to turn that foundry from a money pit into a competitive asset. So it is a sign of strength, but they didn't finalize any details about that foundry business deal. It's the market cap. I was blown away where it was when it was at 18 because I watched it for 40 years, probably. And I watched the AMD Intel Wars. When AMD was $2? Yeah. And it was always, I remember Jerry Sanders. I knew him. And what's AMD's market cap? All of a sudden, I looked at that after some of the AI deals that it embarked upon. But Intel, this puts it all the way back to about $350 billion. What is it? $497. $497. AMD. Did you know that, Carter? That that was going to happen? I have a number at the top of my mind. Anyway, Christina, thanks. We've got – actually, we do this a certain way, and I always – We talk about it first. Yeah, we're going to. But then we're going to trade it? Or you want to talk about it? Oh, I usually – sometimes I sit here and join in. But maybe not with you. Please do. Please do. And then you can – in fact, you can come in and talk about it tomorrow. I'm personally invited. No, no. The only thing I would add is that the stock – wow, I'm getting a little embarrassed right now for saying that. But the stock has run up a lot because it's been less about fundamentals and more about the narrative. You had President Trump, you know, tweeting about it. Elon Musk. You had Google saying that they're going to extend a partnership. And so maybe this earnings report really shows that revenue is climbing and that they potentially, you know, margins are improving, et cetera. So the numbers are starting to show some of that narrative and proving it. I know you guys are looking at me, but yes. OK, I won't. I'll look at I'll look there. Intel results coming after the Van X semi ETF close at a record. The SMH added a percent with Texas Instruments, Microchip, and OnSemi among the best performers. The SMH up after hours as well, which is not surprising. Tim. Yes, sir. First of all, Joe, it's so great to have you. Watch how naturally I say this. Tim. Oh, yes. You've been pointing to semi-out performance. It's so nice if you don't notice that, Joe, over the last couple months. I knew she liked United Rentals, right? Well. But I knew you'd been talking about. And we knew you were going to bring your special flair today. So it's great to have you. Thank you. It's been a long day. It's nice you were welcoming me. And it is hard. It's hard work. It's hard to get back in here. Well, again, you put in a long day. So great to have you. And it's, I mean, semis seem like they'd put in a hard day going into today. And yet look at this move. The fact that we're opening the show with Intel, to me, is startling. Not because it wasn't a startling number and the move in the stock hasn't been extraordinary. But because Intel has been so irrelevant, this renaissance in the CPU, which is what we've talked about. I mean, it's kind of the game is kind of played right into their hands. I still think that the market is doing too much with this whole concept of Lipitan's ability to asset sales, potentially strategic deals. We're hearing about Tesla now. I mean, a lot of this feels a little bit like the Tesla model. Look over here while I'm doing this. The reality is that that there are exciting things going on. But there's a limit to what they I think they can do on the production side, given some supply constraints and some balance sheet constraints. Having said that, as you referenced, Joe, semiconductors are going through maybe their most extraordinary period in the market. I mean, outperformance and I mean, outright absolute moves to all time highs, more so than they have at any time in the last three years when all we've done is talk about semis. That's extraordinary, seeing as I don't know what inning we're in, hopefully in Flushing, where it seems like it's late innings early here. I do think we're in middle innings here, and it's extraordinary, considering we've had a big run. Do you have a lot on Intel? Well, I do find this quarter just absolutely stunning. And going in, the bar was, I think, getting higher and higher. Obviously, the stock has had a huge run. But the magnitude of the revenue beats is really extraordinary. 10%? 10%? 10% or depending on which data centers. No, but just overall. Overall, on every metric. And Munster says that's headed up. That's gigantic. Supposedly. And you were talking to Santoli. I was. You know, inside out. Well, here's the thing. I'm less interested in the 10% beat on revenue and the guidance up 9%. I mean, this is a company that's growing earnings off a very low base. So if you wanted to say it was a huge beat, I read that a couple times here. Here's the last time the stock was 70 bucks. OK, you got to go back to 2021. There was peak earnings in sales that year. OK, they basically did $79 billion in sales, $5.47 in earnings. They had 57% gross margins. OK, so this year it's at the same spot. Let's just assume numbers are going to go up kind of big, right? They're expected to do $60 billion in sales. I'm just going to throw that out there as far as the guide, if you want to kind of move that out. They're going to have, what, I don't know, 55 cents in earnings. Let's call that a dollar. OK. And 37 percent gross margin. So we all know how to do math. All right. So the last time a stock was at 70. Just like that. Just think about that. So the multiple here is absolutely insane for it to grow into that is going to be a real problem. And then here's the other thing. They're losing a lot of money on manufacturing. OK, they lost two and a half billion dollars in the quarter. Now they have one customer and maybe this TerraFab thing works out well for them. This company does not have a great track record in manufacturing. Now, I think it's great that they're going to be bringing manufacturing back here to the United States, but that's also going to be costly. And it's also going to be costly if they're shifting production away from PC chips over to these CPUs that they can sell into data centers. So to me, I think it's like it feels like a bubble. That's all I'm saying. And then the SMH is now up 60 percent in a month. I agree with that. I mean, I haven't owned it. I haven't owned it and missed the entire run at every point along the way. I thought it was expensive. And I still think it's expensive. And with the move, I particularly think it's expensive. But if you were owning it today for this, I think you're pretty happy with what these earnings are. So whatever, you know, excitement and forward multiple you want to put into it, I agree that the tariff app is great. But that's, you know, three years down the road. So I can't, you know, the multiple is just way too high for me. But that's been the wrong way to do it. So many ways to look at it. I mean, we know that if it opens where it's indicated now, post-close, it will finally take out its high, all-time high of August. So then what does that mean if you're back to where you were in the year 2000, just of inflation? It means you're still down about 40 percent. So there's so many ways to tell the story. It depends how you want to do the headline. It's also worth note that Intel's relative performance to the tech sector peaked at around 96. And so, again, these are great moments. You can trade this, and that's all true. But as an asset, the greatest one of all, right, a whole, it turned out to be the biggest dot of all, right? This was the number one. It was the number one by far. So the question is, and also Texas Instruments, it's not idiosyncratic. The whole group is doing it. And herein is the rub. The only time where you've gone up 45% in a three-week period, it happens during the last part of the bubble in 98, 99. and it also happened in 01, 02, 03, on the way down, when you have these violent countertrend moves. So we assume we're not in a downtrend, we're in uptrend. Does it mean that we're close to that former peak? It would have to suggest that. Do I have to revise everything I said about the CHIPS Act, how the government can't pick winners? Didn't it look like a bad pick when we gave so much money to Intel and then all of a sudden it's like... It looked like a subsidy, too. It looked like a bailout. They didn't get warrants, though, and they did have to meet certain. But is it working? And I'm not just blaming, you know, it was a bipartisan deal. I'm not blaming Biden. But then the Trump administration went all in on this, too. They know how to pick stocks? Obviously. Yeah. They do? Yes, actually. But didn't they convert the grants to stocks? So, again, that was the trick and have a ball. I mean, that wasn't the dumbest thing we could think of, right? I mean, I can't do it. I have to give credit to both administrations. I think I do. Yeah, do it. Are you going to explode? I don't know. I've never done that before. Let's bring in Gene Munster. For more, he's managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management. Gene it was a story stock on the way up and now it real That what you thinking right now Well let me back up about a year Just at Deepwater we own a lot of AI infrastructure We're big believers. We're in the second inning. And we also sold Intel a year ago, never brought it back. And I think as I listen to the conversation here, we're kind of making the same mistake. We're overthinking this. We're looking at what the multiple is. we can look at the revenue multiple, which trades at about half of where TSM and Nvidia are. So there's a little bit of valuation justification there. But I think we're overthinking this. What's going on here, this is a broken company. This company was on the ropes. I have worked with people who have left Intel because they felt they had no more mojo. And what has happened from going from revenue down 4% in December to up 7% in March, and if they do the same thing to their June quarter in terms of exceeding expectations, exceeding the high end of the same rate, they'll grow at 24 percent. So minus four plus seven plus 24 percent. What's going on here is this is a rising tide. Now, I'm not saying we're going to buy the stock tomorrow. I struggle with missing something this spectacular. But what is going on here is this is testimony to everything that we have been hearing. We are still very early in AI. It's testimony to the concept that Elon's been talking about, which is that chips are a big bottleneck. This advanced packaging piece is a major headache for how we're going to basically fuel the AI brain in the next five years. And Intel, whether they have still dysfunctionality with all of their deficiencies, this defines the rising tide lifts all boats. I don't know what you do with that when it comes to, do you own the stock, do you not own the stock? But let's just call it like it is. That's what's going on here. If Gelsinger were still there, would we be here right now? Do you think? Is he somewhere right now just like is he like this or is he happy? Because he's still got a lot of intel. Probably happy. Probably happy. But I mean, I think that I don't want to take anything away from their team, their leadership, any of that. But again, this is, I think, evidence that this rising tide. I saw NVIDIA is down in the aftermarket. There's going to be this conversation about share taking between NVIDIA and Intel, some sort of a distorted conversation around that. I mean, the reality is, is that we're still very early. And these bottlenecks, we talked about the tariff ab in 2029. I think, Karen, you mentioned that. That's probably the right time to think about it. But think about that context is we're going to be having this conversation for years. So, Joe, I don't know. Again, I don't want to go and pile in, you know, just there's a natural reaction not to do that. But there is something still bigger going on here. And I think that we have to look beyond Intel and look at the broader AI trade and recognize we are still very early. So, but, Gene, how about, you know, I get the fact that we've now rotated into CPUs and we've actually been doing that. And but, you know, what do you do with then a Texas Instruments? Because, again, it's one thing to say Intel has had the market come to them. And I still don't think this bails out Intel, although a lot of people might be throwing money at them. But from balance sheet issues and dynamics that I understand, Lipputana's done a nice job with layoffs and trying to kind of refocus. But what do you do with the other names that weren't this beleaguered, vertically integrated player that, you know, makes everything it then needs to mass produce? Well, not all the stocks are going to kind of equally benefit. Unfortunately, I just don't know a ton about Texas instrument when it comes to the stock. And so I don't want to speak to that. But I do kind of want to speak to, again, back to the broader AI trade. The question comes down to, when I think about this rising tide and impacting a lot of different players, they don't all have to be vertically integrated. There's a lot of suppliers, whether it's on energy or optics, that are having meaningful beneficiaries here. The question is not, at this point, whether or not the revenue numbers are going higher than expectation. The question comes down to, will the market reward that? We have seen NVIDIA continuing to raise and raise expectations, and the stock largely has not been rewarded for that. So, Tim, as I kind of think about the dynamic and think about this rising tide, you know, it's definitely going on. It's going to go on for years. The question is at what point or how much the market is going to continue to expand the multiple on these companies in anticipation of this growth. All right, Gene. Thank you. And keep us posted. with the details from the call. So are you going to tell me whether they buy this or not? Is that traded? No, I think you sell it. I mean, I think it actually gives up a lot of these gains probably tomorrow. I think it's probably pretty exhausted, and maybe this is a bit of a short squeeze. It was probably a short headed into the print, given where the stock ran and the expectations. But, again, I go back to a 10% beat on sales and a 10% beat on the guy. I just don't find it particularly interesting, especially for a stock. You know, it used to be, okay, you beat by 10%. you're up 10%. No, no, not when your revenue's up 10%. You're not counting operating leverage. Okay, but I mean, like, just, you know, okay, 13%. My point is, is like, this is getting a little much. Texas Instruments, again, you know, 9% of their sales. And listen, I'm not like, this is not hurting me one way or another. I'm just saying that if you're going and chasing this right here, I just think you missed it. You missed it once, you missed it twice, you missed it three times. And so it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. And, you know, this is probably one reason, though, If you've seen Broadcom has gone up in a straight line, right? So if you're looking for chip plays, you need to do things that are going to play into inference that are getting more specific. And I think that's one of the reasons why Google, one of the only hyperscalers that's back towards its prior all-time highs in this period that we've been, because they have that TPU exposure and they're getting orders outside of their own usage. So to me, there's other ways to play it. I'd rather buy Google here than Intel. All right. Meanwhile, the software side of tech, that trade dropping the IGV's losses led by ServiceNow, which saw its worst day on record. The company's subscription revenue taking a hit due to the war in Iran and the headwinds dragging down names like Workday, as you can see there, Salesforce, also IBM. Look at IBM. Microsoft also tumbling after it announced its first ever voluntary buyout. About 7% of its U.S. employees are eligible. Karen. Yeah, so I don't own service now, but I do think this, I mean, first of all, IGV has had an enormous bounce back. So I think it was sort of poised to maybe correct a little. But one could make, if you want to make this apocalypse case, the bearish case, you can sort of, I guess, start here. I mean, this is a company normally, you know, Bill McDermott is extremely bullish all the time and and wanted to sound bullish here. And I think the street's just not buying at the moment. Like, could this be the one that we remember? The stock's obviously down a lot already before this, but this is a pretty dramatic response. I mean, just a testament to momentum in both directions. Right. I mean, a stock in an established downtrend that's dropping and gapping. It did it again. Momentum as a factor is the single most robust and most quant models. And the opposite is for a strong stock that gets stronger. At some point, you say it's too far, right? We can get a mean reversion. But buying a stock like ServiceNow just because it's down, there is no known technique that makes that a good one. I'm ready for anyone to say what they want, but they told me to tease. But I want to give everyone a chance. Tim, you're good. I like your pants tonight. How about that? They're Lululemon's. I like yours. You look pretty good in them jeans. I said that to you, too, and I asked whether it's okay for me. But those are not normal, like those you don't buy at a normal place. Those are nice, right? Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks for highlighting that I am wearing jeans. They're not just jeans. Do they begin with a G? They do. And end with an I? They could. All right. Okay. All right. All right. That narrows it down. That's the T's already. That is T's. Okay, now T's again. Coming up, industrials. Oh, you're not the only one. You're not the only one. You're not the only one. I forgot, didn't you? I forgot. Industrials in focus, a couple key names climbing higher in today's session. What's behind the moves and how much higher can they go? Details are next. Plus, we're watching shares of Nike after its latest job cut announcements. The details, plus what the Lulu CEO announcement means for that company. Don't go anywhere. Fest Money is back in just a couple minutes. What made you confident that you could do something that hadn't been done before? I have no fear of failure. Trailblazing women changing the game. One of my favorite pieces of advice, think about what your boss's boss needs. Leadership can look in many, many different forms. It really does come down to just trusting yourself. Life is short and you just got to think big to accomplish big things. Julia Borsten hosts CNBC changemakers and power players. New episodes every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts. And welcome back to Fast Money. United Rentals soaring nearly 23% today after boosting its full year sales guidance last night. The stock trading at its highest levels of the year. And fellow industrial named Caterpillar, meanwhile, closing at a record up another 3% today. It's now up six sessions in a row, 13 out of the last 14, gaining almost 16 percent in that time. And, Karen, as we've been talking about earlier, you are in United Rentals. I am in United Rentals. It's a big position. I've been in it for a long, long time. This was a really, really good quarter. One of the things that happened last quarter when the stock traded down was that they had all these great big projects, but they didn't have the right equipment where they needed to have it ultimately. And it cost them a lot of money to deliver it and move it. And they were very effective in getting that delivery expense way down. That was excellent. So the margins were good. Also, this is a team that likes to under-promise, over-deliver. So they're going to raise guidance. I'm going to believe them. The thing is, it's not super cheap here. So this is a really nice, it's fun, it's up 22%. But if you don't own it today, I don't know that I would have to jump in tomorrow. I'm staying with it for sure for the long term. But good for them. And these projects are going to be multi-year projects. So we know they're going to have good revenue for some time. And how long have you been in it? At least 10 years. 10 years? Yeah. Well, I wasn't expecting that. She's a long-term investor. I'm a long-term investor on a show called Fast Money. Are you the only person here that is in this? I think this is Karen's baby. I mean, she's been on it. She's been right. And I think there's been both a strategic and kind of a secular element of what's been going on in the space. But I'll talk about Caterpillar, if that's fair. What do you think? I'm ready to hear that. I'll jump in there. Well, I mean, I think there's a story with Caterpillar, too, that there actually has been macro that's been very supportive. They're also strategically well positioned in the energy space, especially on pipeline manufacturing. And that's been part of the call for kind of fresh green shoots in the space. But it does at some point. We all know valuation is a terrible timing mechanism. But Caterpillar, as an industrial name, is trading probably 35 to 40 percent more expensive than its five and 10 year historical. It's trading somewhere around 43 times on a trailing 12 month. And it's just, you know, again, I get where they're positioned and I get where there is a lot of infrastructure build out in this country. But at some point, again, this is one of these stocks. It actually looks like it's a data center stock. All right. Great. We're going to go now. Unless Carter, you got a chart wisdom? I think Caterpillar is great. I like that kind of momentum. I mean obviously it expensive but that not a reason to buy or sell a stock Unless of course it 10 years and that a different matter I will point out just maybe we can end this do you know we in the exact times that I never had long capital gains in my life Really? Oh, I'd love to maximize as much as I possibly can. If we ever get married, that would be great. We will offset each other beautifully. Eamon Javers, I am told urgently in my ear, Eamon, what's going on? This is unplanned. Yeah, Joe, that's right. Take a live look inside the Oval Office right now. The president just called White House reporters in. He's introducing ambassadors from various places in the world. He just put out a truth social post. The president said that he has met with the ambassadors to Lebanon and to Israel. You see there the Secretary of State Marco Rubio is talking alongside Vice President Vance and the president himself. The president in his Truth Social post says that the meeting with the representatives from Israel and Lebanon went very well. The United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah. The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended by three weeks. I look forward in the near future to hosting the prime minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, and the president of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun. It was a great honor to be a participant in this very historic meeting. He's now reading out that meeting to the press pool in the Oval Office. So we'll update you with any details. The significance here, a couple of things, Joe. One is the extension of this ceasefire by a three-week period of time now between Israel and Lebanon. That is something that the Iranians had said was crucial to any peace agreement between the United States and Iran. They wanted all along the ceasefire to include Lebanon and Israel to stop their attacks there. The president seems to be going some way here toward what the Iranians want by announcing this extension of the ceasefire. The other language here that's interesting to me, Joe, is the president saying the United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah, suggesting that there are factions inside Lebanon that the United States has some agreement with already to work in a counterintelligence way against Hezbollah. So we'll see what else the president has to announce in the Oval Office right now. Joe, back over to you. Excellent. I'm glad you were ready, Eamon, and thanks for bringing us that. And keep us updated. All right. We'll have more Fast Money in just a couple minutes. Think about what your boss's boss needs. Leadership can look in many, many different forms. It really does come down to just trusting yourself. Life is short and you just got to think big to accomplish big things. Julia Boorstin hosts CNBC Changemakers and Power Players. New episodes every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts. All right. Welcome back to Fast Money. You can see shares of Nike right now, flat or so. Not much happening after the company announced it was cutting about 1,400 jobs. That's Less than 2% of the workforce, but the second round of layoffs this year. And the news comes after, a day after, news that longtime Nike exec Heidi O'Neill was going to be the next CEO of rival Lululemon. And she starts on September 8th. Is this a loss for Nike, a gain for Lululemon? Well, I guess Lululemon thinks not, right? The stock's telling you not. Maybe, you know, obviously Nike has a used to own Nike. I sold it pretty recently. It didn't work. So people seem somewhat disappointed in the choice and that if Nike, this was someone plucked from Nike, where Nike isn't a shining example of what to do as a retailer in the last couple of years. I think they the other thing is when you get a new CEO, if I were the new CEO, the first thing I do, kitchen sink, kitchen sink. Right. That first quarter. Just take it down. Right. No reason to put the bar high. And so they could end up doing that. I mean, I didn't think I would see Lululemon at this P.E. multiple. But, I mean, maybe it really is. We were talking, Carter, about is it an Under Armour situation? I don't know. I'm not long in here. Yeah, it's just the kind of thing, resist the temptation to buy. Cheap is a four-letter word in this business, or five-letter, stay away. Yeah, it's interesting to note, you know, 1,800 jobs, 78,000 base. That's 2%, right? So Meta just announced that they're cutting 8,000 jobs. They also have 78,000 employees, right? So if you're Nike and you're having these execution, I mean, the list goes on and on about their problems. And the stock is trading at levels it hasn't seen in 15 years or so. You'd think that they really would. You're saying kitchen sink of the new CEO. You just got to take things out. You got to turn this thing around and give people a reason to kind of buy it. and just suspect that there's a new plan coming here. I was referring, though, to Lulu as potential Under Armour, not Nike. Yeah, no. Okay. Yeah, no, look, in my neighborhood, we had Aloe and Viore, and, I mean, no one cares about that other than to say, I think there's way too much athleisure, other than Joe I know is a big consumer in that space. I mean, you know. They last, I haven't consumed recently, but I have a lot of Lulu in it. Well, and the argument against Lulu is also, you know, they went into this downturn at peak margin. So we don't really even know what the multiple is. I, you know, look also at Burke, look at, look at, look at Deckers, look at, look at a lot of this trendy, either footwear, outdoor wear. I think there's a flood of it. And I think discretionary in that corner is part of also the over. I think there's a macro concern and I think there's a bottom up. All right, good. Coming up, we're going to talk to Bookvar. He always puts out something called the book report. Get it? Yeah, thank you. He says markets. Good read. And he used to work for a place called Bleakley to match his thinking almost all the time. Anyway, he thinks the markets have gotten too complacent. And where he's still finding opportunity at this point, Fast Money is back in tune. Welcome back to Fast Money. A top investor worries the market is becoming too nonchalant when it comes to risks. CNBC contributor. Peter Bookvar is the chief investment officer at One Point BFG Wealth Partners. I kind of agree with you. And then sometimes I kind of don't, Peter, because I think that at this point, the narrative is changing. And this is kind of a crowded viewpoint that there's a lot of people saying, you know, we totally underestimated the length of this war at this point. We saw the V-shape. It almost looks like Liberation Day, right? And here we are. And, you know, there's estimates it could be months, and then after it does reopen, months to get things going again. So I think everybody's a little bit more—I don't see a lot of complacency right now. Well, at the end of March, when the CNN Fear and Greed Index got to 10, I had wrote that we're ripe for a rally, just trying to figure out what the catalyst would be. And the catalyst was the messaging out of the White House that seemed to be that they wanted to end the war. And I've been optimistic that that's going that was going to happen over the last couple of weeks. But each day that goes by, the supply shortages, the supply chain crunches become more acute. And while, of course, the war is going to end, that's going to reopen at some point. The longer it drags out, the more I'm worried about accidents beginning to happen. And now that we've come as far as we have, that's where I think the complacency is. Now, the market is rewarding those companies that are seeing good business. Anything touching, of course, this AI data center build out is doing well. The spenders on that, the hyperscalers, they're not. Those stocks are still below where they were last October. So I don't care about what the S&P is going to do. I'm trying to find things in between and underneath that are going to do well and avoid things that I think are getting too extended here, like the Sox, which since the mid 90s has never been up in its history 17 days in a row. Well, you would say right now that the backdrop, the current narrative for how this is going to play out is that we're still thinking there's going to be something within days, maybe Friday, some type of agreement to extend the ceasefire and reopen the strait. Because I don't think I don't I don't see that complacence. I know the market has rebounded and maybe the market itself looks complacent. But I think there's still plenty, a huge wall of worry just in sentiment for the market to keep climbing. I think everybody agrees with you right now. Yeah, no, I agree with you. I think that there's obviously clearly plenty of risks. I mean, we're negotiating now, it seems like, with the IRGC. I mean, flip a coin on how that's going to go. But just when you have this speed and rapidity of a rally in a very condensed period of time tells me that the market has pulled forward a lot of optimism. I mean, it is pretty staggering that we broke out to all those new highs right in the middle of this. And once that surprises, maybe you're right. Maybe here there's backing and filling or we could go to new lows. Theoretically, no one's saying that we couldn't. I know some technicians, you know, Katie Stockton, kind of kidding her about it. But she right before the 13 day Nasdaq streak, she said, oh, yeah, I'm 6100 on the S&P and, you know, 58000 on Bitcoin. It's like that could still happen. Peter, it can. And I guess my view or my thought, my question to you, Peter, is what if say war is done and I understand elongating the conflict only continues to add to inflation pressure. So let's just say decks are cleared, pieces here, S&P's at 7100. Where are you now? And I think we see the world the same way, which includes we kind of like the rest of the world, et cetera, et cetera. I'm just curious. Let's just say war has been settled. What do you do with the market here? Well, I'm particularly bullish on commodities. And we know energy prices are going to fall sharply when that happens. And the question, of course, is where oil is going to settle out. But I'm of the opinion that commodities generally are going to see a higher low and that you're going to see 85 being the new 65 when it comes to crude oil, for example. You're going to see global stockpiling and hoarding and strategic reserves of everything. And if that's the case, if commodity prices remain elevated, we're going to see, because of these supply disruptions that will continue even upon cessation of the war, just a general bid, I believe, still to inflation. That's going to make interest rates relatively sticky at current or higher levels. I mean, quietly, the 10-year JGB yield is just shy of its highest level since 1999. The German Bund yield, the 10-year, is just shy of its highest level since 2011. So I still think that those are going to be issues. But I do think we also revert back to maybe a weaker dollar, which can benefit international markets, which certainly had a great year last year after 15 years of underperformance, had a good January, February until the pullback. But they've come roaring back, too, along with the S&P. So, Kerry, we had, you know, a couple of Iraq wars. We had we've had so many like mirror images of what we've seen this time around. And they didn't always have oil as a wild card with the straight clothes. Should this be like the other ones where we shouldn be surprised that we got a V bottom It was worse than when we didn have because we weren self Right That a big part of it That a big part I remember being very bearish when 41 went on the offensive in Kuwait. And that was the bottom. That day was the bottom. Right. And I remember thinking, oh, this is this is terrible. Right. But yes. And this time we knew that. And everybody said, you know, usually you look through the geopolitical. But no one really believed it. And it happened again. How did it happen again? It happened again. We never learned. But is it justified to happen again this time? Or could we all be? Could it be a terrible trap? I guess it could be a terrible trap. But I really believe that you would know this way better than I. He thinks it's a terrible trap. But I think that Trump has really, really not a lot of not a lot of patience for this hurting the market. He'll do whatever it takes to resolve it for the market to get back on its footing. And you can tell a lot of times by what he's responding to, how he's thinking. And he's saying, I don't need to do anything right now. They're the ones that are getting squeezed. We're fine. They don't have any revenue. They can't last. So I'm patient. But when he says that, I think he's... Well, he's under the clock of the midterm as well. Yeah, he is. And the American stomach for a protracted war, which, you know, we had a few of those. So you're the whisperer. What would you say to them? I think you should accomplish what this is. In 47 years, this is not the best time to try to really do something. And the midterms are, I don't know, what are you going to do about those anyway at this point? I do what you need to do. That's what presidents are supposed to do, aren't they? I guess so. All right. Dan, I promised we wouldn't talk. I wouldn't say the T word, and it just came out. I think it was your fault. The T-word is Trump. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh, he's winking. I thought it was TPUs. I thought you meant TPUs, and we already did that in the A block. We're not going to do this. We're not a political show. No, you're not. We're Fast Money. No, the CNBC is not a political network. Far be it from me. Thanks, Peter. Coming up, where Chartmaster Carter Wirth sees the health care sector heading. Next, we're going to dig into the technicals when Fast Money returns. We've got another news alert out of Washington. President Trump making some comments on a soldier that's been arrested for betting on Maduro's removal. Let's get back to Eamon for that. Hey, Eamon. Hey there, Joe. That's right. The president was asked about this ABC News report that crossed us a couple of moments ago. The ABC report says that a special forces soldier was arrested by law enforcement earlier today and accused of making $400,000 in profit in prediction markets, betting on the removal of Maduro. This soldier allegedly participated in the Maduro raid and so obviously would have had insider knowledge of that. The president was asked about that report. He said he doesn't know anything about that particular arrest. But he said, in his view, the whole world has become a casino. He asked whether the soldier bet that Maduro would or would not be removed. And then he said that this is like Pete Rose betting on his own baseball team. He appeared to suggest that this was a corrupt act, but he said he was not aware of this particular soldier and the accusations against him, Joe. Now you're making it personal, Eamon, talking about Rose betting on the Reds was one thing. It was betting against the Reds that would have really been bad. And I don't know whether that actually happened or not. Should he be in the HOF or not, Eamon? If it's me, no. And I rooted for him when he was with the Phillies. I'm on Eamon's team on this one. 4,200 hits? Put me in, coach. How many guys had heads the size of pumpkins after the Roy? Are there any standards? I mean, what about Barry Bonds? Where are we going with this? I mean. I don't know. 20 seasons of 200-plus hits every year. I'm not putting Barry Bonds in the hall either. I think you wiped out the whole steroid era, too. So you don't think that. I'm not saying anything. But you're not from Cincinnati. We have Pete Roseway in Cincinnati. I love Pete. If it's just no Hall of Fame. Yeah. Big Red Machine was as good as it got. Think about it. Think about it. Think about it. You want me to go through? Dreesen. I mean, Joe Morgan. Come on. Ben. Sean Gullett. Perez. All right. You win. We got to go to Carter. Not Gary. Meantime, health care is the worst performing sector this year, down almost six percent. and the chart master thinks it might be ailing for some time. Carter, what do you see? Yeah. You start as I'm kind of with you on the body of work, Hall of Fame for me. But anyway, here we go. Not me, Mr. Rose. Here we go. So here's the chart. What we know is this thing is just meandering and meandering and basically the whole thing has gone nowhere. That's the problem. Two years of nothing. Let's clear that and look at the next one and annotate it a couple different ways. Same chart once again. Is it a double top? It sure looks like that. Let's keep that same annotation. Next iteration. Let's put in the trend line. We are hovering ominously, and you'll see it here coming up. We're hovering ominously right on trend. Next chart if we can get it. And you'll see that the risk is we're going to break trend right here. Let's keep that same trend line in effect since the lows of tariff. Iteration number three. Take a look. Not only is it a double top on the longer term chart, but you'll see here we have something of a head and shoulders. These formations are very real and time-tested. And so let's also look at relative performance. Let's look at a two-panel and end with that. This same setup on top, let's clear. Most importantly, sideways for two years. So what does that mean? Relative performance down and down and down and down. In fact, today, the health care is making 10-year relative lows, the S&P. Wow. No premise to be long. All right. Thank you, Carter. Karen. I am long. Well, the health care, that's broader. I'm long Lily. I'm long Novo. I'm long Merc. Tim and I share Pfizer. Pfizer love. Yes. Yes. Really? Pfizer. They need a weight loss drug, I think, don't they? Meanwhile, shares of Comcast seeing their best day in nearly three years after beating top and bottom line estimates for the first quarter. the former parent of CNBC, saying that its streaming service Peacock is approaching profitability for the first time in the current quarter now. Dan. Yeah, I mean, media has been a tough place, right? So we had that M&A or that actually, I mean, it went on and on and on. We're seeing spinoffs. And I would expect to see as some of the degradation in some of those sub numbers is where like I just can't imagine if Peacock is starting to make money that you're not going to see additional cord cutting. So to me, I think it's a tough place to be. But like you said, that version, that's actually made up a lot of ground. I know you bought it towards the lows here, and it looks like. I bought it. And I admitted it. Yeah. No, I mean. Did you buy under 30? I bought a 41 all the way down to like 34. Yeah, but it trades very well. And it seems like. It's the only thing. Again, we're talking to an audience of one here. But it seems like there's some interesting stuff going on there. You're like Pete Rose betting on his own, too. No. So I don't see EOS when they come in. Don't they take a stake? I know I'm going to work hard for versus. So why wouldn't I? Why shouldn't I be an owner? Why shouldn't I be an owner? Was the president saying he was betting on himself that he was going to get Maduro, this soldier? Is that what he was saying? I'm saying if he knew the game was on, that that that was the part. Oh, OK. No, I'll tell you about Comcast. The thing that was most unbelievable. And you guys haven't lived and died with every quarter of Comcast either, because that was our parent for so long. They finally had broadband ads. You know when the last time they had ads? Met ads? 13 years ago. No, almost. I think 2020 in the fourth quarter of 2020 or 21. So that was a big switch. I think that's why it was up. Meantime, Netflix, Julia would know this. Netflix lost the bidding war for Warner Brothers in February. But could the streamer be looking for another deal now? CNBC's Julia Boorstin has the details. Hey, Julia. Hey, Joe. Well, Netflix today making its first big move in the wake of losing that Warner Brothers deal, announcing a new $25 billion share buyback program. This is in addition to $6.8 billion remaining from a previous share buyback authorization. With $2.8 billion in a breakup fee from that Warner Brothers deal, Netflix isn't just using its cash to bolster its stock, but it also said it has built its M&A muscle. Netflix has said the company will be disciplined and opportunistic around deals. And given the limited big assets up for grabs, its next deals are likely to be smaller companies that accelerate key priorities, including growing its ad business and also competing with YouTube for younger viewers. Now, there are a couple types of types of deals to watch out for. One is rights to sports events like the NFL's five game package that Netflix is currently in talks for. Shows around YouTube creators like Netflix's Mark Rober show to help lure younger audiences. Ad tech companies to help with Netflix building its own ad stack and more AI visual effects companies like Interpositive, which is Ben Affleck's AI company that Netflix bought just last month. So Joe, be an interesting period to watch without those big things up for play. Right. OK, thank you, Julia. Speaking of gamblers and Affleck. Anyway, Karen, what do you think? What do I think? I'm long Netflix. It's not cheap. I think that, I mean, that would have been a very big deal for them, Warner Brothers, and somewhat trajectory changing. So I like it here. I'm staying with it. I hope these are just sort of fill-ins that add to, you know, like the visual effects, which I think could help them on expenses a lot. Okay. We're going to come back in a second with some final trades. final trade time Joe George Foster Davey Concepcion and other members of the big machine Cesar Geronimo Cesar don't buy the IGB okay Karen in the don't buy theme you're right I like it but wait you'll have a better chance and thank you Joe for being here thank you for having me and putting up of the dance yeah Don't buy Intel here. I said that two days ago, but I would not buy it here. In Carter. Healthcare, don't buy XLV. Oh, my God. I've got five seconds. Oh, don't buy. What to do? I was going to think of it. Tommy Helms? Oh, no. That's before that. Mad Men, he starts out. 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