In short: Harding Loevner (International Developed Markets Equity): listed as a long pitch, but the excerpt is the compilation's only two-handed argument and reads more as sector commentary than a buy case. The constructive half: "virtually all semiconductor manufacturers… remain committed to expanding capacity," funded by record profits — SK hynix using ADR proceeds for lithography "almost certainly supplied by ASML," Samsung vowing "to be more disciplined with memory capacity capital expenditure," Micron tying capex "to customer demand and directed toward AI memory." Hence: "statements of disciplined capacity growth from the three largest memory makers suggest that prices and margins could stay higher for longer than in past decades." Then the reversal: "the same customer demand… is now incentivizing capacity additions that should eventually bring utilization into better balance. For the companies, such investments may be rational. For the stocks, it could prove more complicated. Scarcity has been a powerful driver of recent earnings growth and investor enthusiasm. If capacity catches up, the balance of enthusiasm may shift as well… we suspect that past patterns of industry profitability will reassert themselves." Marked Neutral here on the fund's own wording.
Infineon appears in this compilation as a long pitch, but the passage attached to it is the only genuinely two-sided argument in the entire document, and it is worth reading precisely for that.
The constructive half: every chipmaker, in logic and memory alike, is committed to expanding capacity and has the profits to pay for it. More interestingly, the three big memory makers have all said they will be disciplined — Samsung explicitly promised more restraint than in past cycles, Micron said its expansion would follow customer demand. Harding Loevner's inference is that prices and margins could therefore stay high for longer than history would suggest.
Then the reversal. The very demand producing those profits is also funding the new capacity, and capacity eventually arrives. "For the companies, such investments may be rational. For the stocks, it could prove more complicated." Scarcity has driven both the earnings and the enthusiasm; if supply catches up, both change. That is a direct challenge to the eight other memory and AI-hardware pitches in this same compilation, and the reason this row is marked Neutral rather than Positive.
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