Folks,
The market right now is a tug-of-war between two scenarios — Trump backs off on Iran, or the conflict drags on. Every headline swings portfolios 10, 20, even 40%. It feels like investing in 2026 requires a crystal ball. But it doesn't. It requires opening up the chart.
Zoom out on any quality asset and the pattern is the same. The scariest sections — the drawdowns, the triple-layer dips — end up looking like minor speed bumps on a long-term chart that trends up and to the right.
The biggest so-called fool who bought before an entire downtrend still got a better entry than much of what came after. The short term does not equal the long term. And because something is down right now does not mean it is going to keep going down.
Here are four stocks that got caught in the storm but still have the fundamentals to reward patient investors.
1. Robinhood (HOOD)
Robinhood has been cut in half since its October highs. The price-to-sales ratio dropped from 31 to roughly 14. The stock got cut in half, but the business didn't.
Underneath the sell-off sits a maturing fintech platform that has aggressively built out well over a dozen distinct business lines — brokerage, options, crypto, futures, margin lending, credit cards, retirement accounts, prediction markets, and a venture fund — each generating meaningful revenue on its own. The Gold subscriber tier keeps growing and producing reliable recurring revenue. Average revenue per user keeps climbing. And the company is not just adding accounts — it is deepening relationships with the ones it already has.
On top of all of that, Robinhood was just named alongside BNY Mellon as one of the platforms to run the new federal Trump accounts program — government-created savings accounts for American children funded with a federal contribution at birth. That is a government-backed mandate putting Robinhood in front of an entire generation of investors before they even make their first trade.
- Wall Street's median price target implies north of 70% upside from current levels.
- Management just authorized a massive share buyback — they are not panicking, they are buying.
- The platform now has a government-mandated pipeline to the next generation of American investors.
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2. Nike (NKE)
Nike hit its all-time high in November 2021. Today, it sits near prices last seen in 2014. Twelve years of stock market gains completely erased from the most recognized athletic brand on Earth.
There are real reasons for it. The prior CEO made three disastrous decisions. First, he pulled Nike away from wholesale partners like Dick's and Foot Locker and tried to force everything through direct digital channels, destroying the brand's physical presence. Second, he stopped innovating on performance products and leaned into classic franchise lines — Dunks, Air Force Ones, Jordans — pumping them so aggressively that the market got completely saturated and the shoes lost their appeal. Third, while Nike was busy flooding shelves with its own classics, competitors like On Running, Hoka, and New Balance stepped into the performance gap and built loyal younger audiences Nike still hasn't fully recaptured.
That CEO is gone. The new CEO is Elliott Hill, a 32-year Nike veteran who came out of retirement specifically for this role.
He has begun unwinding all three mistakes at once. The turnaround will take time, and markets have priced that in — which is exactly why the discount looks so severe. At current prices, the brand alone appears worth well more than what the stock trades at.
3. Salesforce (CRM)
Salesforce peaked just above $365 in December 2024. Today it sits around $185 — a roughly 50% decline on one of the most deeply embedded enterprise software companies in existence. The PE ratio has fallen to around 22.5 times earnings, about half of what investors were paying a year ago.
Software is in a massive bear market as everyone panics over which companies AI will destroy. But Salesforce is not a company that gets destroyed by AI — it is one that gets massively helped by it. Once a company builds its entire sales operation, customer support workflow, and marketing automation on the platform, ripping it out is a multi-year, multi-million-dollar nightmare. That switching cost is one of the most valuable moats a software company can have, and the market is completely dismissing it.
- Salesforce closed roughly 29,000 Agentforce deals in fiscal 2026, with paid transactions growing approximately 50% quarter over quarter.
- The U.S. Department of Labor deployed Agentforce for citizen support. The Veterans Health Administration deployed it to save thousands of staff hours in frontline veteran care.
- Agentforce represents one of the most important product launches in company history — real enterprise AI deployment, not theoretical pilots.
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4. Applied Digital (APLD)
Applied Digital peaked around $42 in late 2025 and has pulled back roughly 40%. That drawdown is extreme considering the earnings report that just dropped. The Street expected around $76 million in revenue. Applied Digital printed $126.6 million — a beat of nearly 66% over estimates and revenue up 139% year over year. The company also delivered positive adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net income.
APLD designs, builds, and operates massive data centers engineered specifically for the extreme power density and cooling requirements of AI and high-performance computing — GPU clusters running model training and inference around the clock. The anchor of the business is the CoreWeave relationship.
CoreWeave, one of the most important Nvidia-backed AI cloud companies in the world, chose Applied Digital to build and operate its AI compute infrastructure through a multi-billion-dollar, multi-year contract tied to the company's North Dakota campus.
- The company just broke ground on Delta Forge 1, a new 430-megawatt campus in Louisiana, actively expanding the pipeline.
- Rather than constantly diluting shareholders, management has financed construction by borrowing against the data centers themselves as physical assets — similar to how airports or toll roads are financed.
- Revenue is up 139% year over year with a 66% earnings beat, and the stock is still sitting 40% below recent highs.
The world needs a lot more compute. This company is right in the middle of building it, and it happens to be doing so at a steep discount to where it traded just months ago.
These four names got caught in a macro storm driven by geopolitics and sentiment — not by anything breaking inside their businesses. For investors focused on the next two, five, and ten years rather than the next two weeks, that kind of dislocation tends to look very different in hindsight.
Anyways...
That's all for now!
Until Next Time,
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