Melissa Lee (Host) 00:00.070
our next guest expects the AI trade to shift from broad enthusiasm to a more selective environment in the new year wall street legend rick sherland is founder of sherland partners and recently joined wedbush investment banking as a senior advisor rick great to have you with us
Melissa Lee (Host) 00:12.590
nice to see you
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 00:13.910
melissa thanks for having me and i should caution you that i no longer wear the analyst at so i'm going to be ducking some stock questions probably
Melissa Lee (Host) 00:22.190
that is fine we we want to get into your head rick in terms of how you're thinking about this AI trade so when you say shift from broad enthusiasm to being more selective what do you mean and and you know what we saw today in terms of the enthusiasm behind the hardware names
Melissa Lee (Host) 00:36.270
versus some of the others you know does that play into your thinking
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 00:40.950
i think this year has been one of kind of a monolithic trade people think of the max seven it's now about thirty five percent of the S and P but i think twenty twenty six you're going to see that trade broaden out very substantially you've got a whole universe of SAS companies
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 00:57.710
that the the streets kind of looking beyond right now they're some issues with respect to is the architectural architecture flexible enough to accommodate AI is the business model at risk so they've been favor but i do think you're going to see some of those come back where
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 01:13.910
they've made good progress on both sides of adopting AI and the business model changes you'll see a very robust IPO market because there are a lot of the private AI companies that have gotten to scale and some of the SAS companies that didn't get out in the peak of the market in
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 01:30.390
twenty twenty one will likely be coming coming to market where they've made good traction on AI and the business model shifts M and A of course is going to be a big thing next year all the big enterprise companies need to add AI into their own architecture and an easy way to do
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 01:48.750
that is through acquisitions so i i think that all the derivative beneficiaries of AI in the streets and you guys have been looking at pretty closely i think there's a lot more of that that we'll see next year not just within software but broadly across the economy so it'll go
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 02:06.800
ahead yeah
? (Analyst) 02:07.680
sorry rick tried to cut you off because that's exactly where i wanted to go and to better understand your thoughts and i'm not gonna ask you to pick stocks here but when you talk about enterprise adoption and really really the follow through from the are we talking though about
? (Analyst) 02:20.950
the industrial sector and people finally or you know banks places that have had a great run industrials have rallied all year i think on some level because they were already running their business more efficiently are you really talking though about the platforms a little closer
? (Analyst) 02:32.670
to home especially whether you are talking about the hardware names i certainly agree that software has underperformed here as people have been concerned about the hardware and i think you'll get follow through but please just clarify this this enterprise adoption dynamic sector
? (Analyst) 02:45.470
wise if you can