{"id":25148,"date":"2025-08-27T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/?p=25148"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:57:38","slug":"three-stocks-that-repeated-apples-breakout-performance-and-how-to-find-the-next-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/three-stocks-that-repeated-apples-breakout-performance-and-how-to-find-the-next-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Stocks That Repeated Apple\u2019s Breakout Performance \u2013 And How to Find the Next One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card card-body bg-light mb-4 mt-4\">\n<p><strong>Managing Editor&rsquo;s Note:<\/strong> InvestorPlace senior analyst Luke Lango has a system that can help you identify the best times to invest. It&rsquo;s powerful enough to sense what will happen in the next six months&hellip; or even the next 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>He calls it Nexus. It&rsquo;s an AI-powered system that helps determine when a stock is about to enter a breakout moment where major returns happen.<\/p>\n<p>Nexus has a phenomenal track record. Over the past several months, it&rsquo;s identified AI winners including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR). 290% gains in five months (and a subsequent well-timed sale).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>AppLovin Corp. (APP). 500% gains in five months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>BigBear.ai Holdings Inc. (BBAI). 100% gains in just a few weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, Luke is so confident in his system that he&rsquo;s issuing an <em>AI Income Challenge<\/em>, to see how many people can use Nexus to generate cash &ndash; potentially turning $5,000 into $30,000 &ndash; in the next six months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.investorplace.com\/?cid=MKT844990&amp;eid=MKT847062&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC233831\">Join him<\/a> then read on to learn more about the system&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Three Stocks That Repeated Apple&rsquo;s Breakout Performance \u2013 And How to Find the Next One<\/h2>\n<p><strong>BY LUKE LANGO, SENIOR ANALYST, INVESTORPLACE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One August morning in 1981, Steve Jobs sat at <strong>Apple Inc.&rsquo;s (AAPL)<\/strong> headquarters with a<em> Wall Street Journal<\/em> folded under his arm.<\/p>\n<p>The headline: IBM Corp. (IBM) was entering the personal computer market.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, barely 5 years old, suddenly found itself up against Big Blue.<\/p>\n<p>With trademark audacity, Jobs turned the moment into theater. Apple ran a cheeky full-page <em>WSJ<\/em> ad: &ldquo;Welcome, IBM. Seriously.&rdquo; Later, in a 1983 speech, Jobs cast Apple as the rebel, warning &ldquo;IBM wants it all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That spirit paid off. The Macintosh, launched in 1984 with its iconic Super Bowl ad, made Apple the symbol of insurgent tech. Since then, Apple stock has soared nearly 175,000%, while IBM is up just about 2,500%.<\/p>\n<p>Apple isn&rsquo;t alone in this story.<\/p>\n<p>History shows transformational breakthroughs usually come from upstarts, not incumbents. Each innovation cycle produces Davids that topple Goliaths.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we&rsquo;re in the AI innovation cycle, let&rsquo;s look at three Davids whose &ldquo;AI Income Events&rdquo; rewarded investors with huge gains.<\/p>\n<p>Their biggest moves are likely largely past &mdash; so I&rsquo;ll also show you how my team is spotting the next round&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three &ldquo;AI Income Event&rdquo; Case Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AI has become the great equalizer. Any small firm can now harness it to leap ahead of giants.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is spotting when hype (Phase 1) flips to adoption-driven growth (Phase 2). That&rsquo;s where my Nexus system comes in.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll tell you more about Nexus in a minute, but first let&rsquo;s take a look at three AI Income Events it uncovered&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case Study #1:<\/strong> Back in October 2023, most investors had never heard of our first case study.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Microsoft partner in cloud software &mdash; a solid business, sure, but hardly front-page material. Then on October 10, this company unveiled an AI-powered information lifecycle management platform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That was the spark for AvePoint Inc. (AVPT).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nexus flagged it immediately. Not just because the word &ldquo;AI&rdquo; appeared in a press release, but because my system detected a shift in business momentum &mdash; the transition from Phase 1 story to Phase 2 execution.<\/p>\n<p>We moved in.<\/p>\n<p>Within a month, we had partial profits of +12.9%. By May 2024, we booked another +24.1% gain.<\/p>\n<p>And by August 2025, we cashed in for a total gain of +105%.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the kind of AI Income Event that can turn a modest stake into serious cash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case Study #2:<\/strong> If you&rsquo;ve ever applied for a mortgage, you know how painful it can be. Endless forms. Weeks of back-and-forth.<\/p>\n<p>Our second case study was already digitizing the process &mdash; but in September 2023, it rolled out an AI chatbot to streamline mortgage applications.<\/p>\n<p>Nexus went off again.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 12, 2023, I recommended <strong>&nbsp;Blend Labs Inc. (BLND)<\/strong> to my members. Within weeks, the stock sprinted for a quick +22% gain, then kept running to +40%. By March 2025, it had surged to +108%.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not a sleepy dividend drip. That&rsquo;s not a 10-year bond.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s a stock doubling in less than 18 months &mdash; all because an AI Income Event creating efficiency overnight in an old, inefficient industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case Study #3:<\/strong> Our third and final case study builds next-generation drones and autonomous warfare systems. It was embedding AI into defense hardware in a way that seemed niche a few years ago &mdash; until geopolitics suddenly made it urgent.<\/p>\n<p>Nexus picked up the signal on <strong>Kratos Defense &amp; Security Solutions Inc. (KTOS)<\/strong> early, in May 2023, before the mainstream had caught on. We rode this position with phased trims, ultimately locking in a monster +324% gain.<\/p>\n<p>This was the definition of a hidden AI Income Event: not obvious, not hyped, but absolutely transformative once the market realized the power of the AI catalyst behind Kratos&rsquo; growth.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&rsquo;s take a look at how Nexus works&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How Nexus Spots the Shift<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The stock market has phases. In fact, every innovative trend follows a predictable progression:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phase 1 &ndash; The Speculation Stage:<\/strong> All hype, headlines, and early whispers&hellip; stocks with more story than substance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phase 2 &ndash; The Growth Stage:<\/strong> Real products, real adoption, real numbers. This is where the biggest gains happen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phase 3 &ndash; Maturity:<\/strong> Widespread adoption and slower, steadier growth as the trend becomes mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, AI itself is solidly in Phase 2. And Nexus can detect when an individual company within makes that critical leap from Phase 1 to Phase 2.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s when we see an &ldquo;AI Income Event.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I believe we&rsquo;re only about a year away from AI as a whole entering Phase 3 &ndash; that mature stage where growth slows and adoption is everywhere. That means the window for Phase 2 AI Income Events is closing.<\/p>\n<p>Every month you wait is another month when stocks like AvePoint, Blend Labs, or Kratos could slip past you.<\/p>\n<p>Most people won&rsquo;t capture these moves &ndash; just as they missed Apple&rsquo;s first few years &ndash; betting instead on larger, more established companies &hellip; and then saying it &ldquo;was obvious all along&rdquo; after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why I created the to encourage everyday investors to step off the sidelines and see if they can use my strategy to capture $30,000 in cash payouts in just six months. The opportunities are there, but seizing them requires action now.<\/p>\n<p>I just put together a <strong>special free broadcast<\/strong> going into far more detail on Nexus &ndash; you can <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.investorplace.com\/?cid=MKT844990&amp;eid=MKT847062&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC233831\">go here to join me in the <em>AI Income Challenge<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and start targeting your first $30,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"light-img\" src=\"https:\/\/image.exct.tradesmith.com\/lib\/fe8213727c6200757c\/m\/16\/e8576e8d-147b-422b-af6e-1a0b2fe4a3a0.png\" alt=\"Luke Lango signature\" width=\"175\" border=\"0\" style=\"height: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 500; text-align:left;\">Luke Lango<br \/>Senior Analyst, <i>InvestorPlace<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History shows that breakthroughs usually come from upstarts, not incumbents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[],"person":[115],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-25148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","person-luke-lango"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25160,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148\/revisions\/25160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25148"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=25148"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=25148"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=25148"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=25148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}