Editor’s Note: Remember the fortunes that were made during the internet boom?
The same opportunity is happening with quantum computing right now.
In fact, there’s a $20 company that supplies the essential material that makes light-speed computers possible.
Chief Income Strategist Marc Lichtenfeld projects the stock could see 1,500% gains and rise to $300 as demand explodes.
Find out how to get the ticker symbol here.
– James Ogletree, Senior Managing Editor
I consider myself fortunate to have had a front-row seat to history.
I lived in San Francisco during the dot-com boom. It was a wild time. My wife and I both worked for dot-com startups. Most people we knew either worked for or had some connection to a dot-com company.
Watching the development of the internet unfold in real time and seeing what was going on behind the scenes was an invaluable lesson about new trends, greed, and hubris – and, perhaps most importantly, what it takes for a business to thrive in a new industry.
I was enough of a student of history to realize that what I was witnessing and participating in, while uncommon, was not unheard of. There have been several times that industries completely changed the way Americans – and then the rest of the world – lived. Those disruptions led to immense creations of wealth.
In 1869, the transcontinental railroad was born. By 1880, $50 million worth of goods were being transported each year. (That’s nearly $1.6 billion in today’s dollars.) Within just a few years, there were 364 railroad companies.
Radio was the 1920 equivalent of the dot-coms. In 1921, there were five radio stations in America. Six years later, there were 681.
Radio stocks were a big factor in the Roaring ’20s stock market, with RCA rising 200X.
Of course, there were other industry booms as well, such as autos in the early part of the 20th century and personal computers at the end of the century.
These were all generational changes that drastically improved billions of lives.
Today, we’re on the cusp of another such change.
In fact, we’re on the cusp of two of them.
Surely, you’re familiar by now with artificial intelligence, or AI. Even if you haven’t used it yourself, you’re aware of its capabilities. We’re all just now starting to perceive how much the world is going to change because of AI.
But there’s another quieter change coming that I suspect will be just as important as AI – if not more important.
Quantum computing.
Quantum computing makes today’s supercomputers look like an old Wang PC from 1984. In just minutes, quantum computers can solve complex problems that take today’s most powerful computers years to solve.
In fact, Google developed a quantum computing chip that needed only five minutes to solve a problem that would take the world’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years to solve. (Ten septillion is a 1 followed by 25 zeros.) Think about that in years. Now, think about condensing that to five minutes. It’s absolutely mind-blowing.
You can imagine the potential and what it will mean for the companies at the forefront of this technology (as well as their investors).
Here’s the thing: In every boom, whether it was railroads, radio, or the internet, there was excess, and when the bubble burst, investors got hurt chasing copycat companies that had no real edge.
The ones with lasting power, such as Ford Motor Company, Cisco Systems, Amazon, and others like them, consistently found ways to create value for their customers and shareholders.
There is going to be a lot of money to be made in the AI and quantum computing space over the next few years. But there are also going to be a lot of companies that are simply cashing in on the craze without offering anything unique.
Find the companies that are the early creators of these technologies and that have big leads over new competition. They are likely going to be the big winners that will move the needle in a very big way in your portfolio.
Good investing,
Marc
P.S. The potential of quantum computing technology is absolutely staggering.
Right now, in an enormous facility in the Arizona desert…
One incredible company is doing something that you’ll have to hear to believe…
It’s producing a special material capable of harnessing the raw power of light itself.
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