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ONTO · Onto Innovation $258.78 +8.75 (+3.50%) 2026-SEP-18 12:49 EST

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2026-JUN-29 · Joe Terranova · CNBC Halftime Report (audio edition) · Positiveinsight · read ↗ · source page ↗$321.53

In short: "A name I gave the other day" — ~$17B market cap, a player in memory; he frames it as a derivative trade to capture alpha after the parabolic moves in the memory leaders (the 2nd-order play off Micron).

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Onto Innovation is a smaller (~$17 billion) maker of inspection and measurement tools used in making memory and advanced chips. Terranova frames it as a "derivative" — a second-order play. Once the obvious memory leaders (like Micron) have already made huge "parabolic" moves, the easy money there is gone, so he hunts for a less-crowded name that benefits from the same boom but hasn't run as far.

He's explicit that this is a "trade to capture alpha" — a tactical position to squeeze extra return out of the memory theme after the leaders have spiked, rather than a core long-term holding. The idea travels: when a leader goes vertical, look down the supply chain for the cheaper, smaller beneficiary.

SOD $321.53
2026-JUN-25 · CNBC · CNBC Halftime Report (audio edition) · Positiveinsight · read ↗ · source page ↗$342.34

In short: Terranova's small-cap momentum pick — memory-oriented semi-equipment, sub-triple-digit valuation, up ~121% YTD, "participating in this AI story."

SOD $342.34

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