6 Investment Megatrends for Explosive Profits Part 2 of 3
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Hello everyone. So this is part two of
this presentation on these six
investment mega trends that we would see
double digit growth in the next 10 20
years and where we can really position
our portfolio to to beat the markets. If
you have not watched part one, do watch
part one. And in fact, in part one, I
would just focus on one mega trend, not
even one, half the mega trend where I
talked about, you guessed it, uh AI. Uh
and I said that we need to focus on both
the AI enablers, which are companies
that make the AI, both the
infrastructure and the software, as well
as AI uh adopters, companies that use AI
to become more efficient to make better
products. And these are the ones that
would benefit significantly from this AI
revolution.
Now, still on the first mega trend
because the first mega trend was on AI
and robotics. So, let's now talk about
the robotics part of it where now AI
becomes physical. People are now
integrating or have integrated AI into
physical robots. And if you have watched
videos on social media like Instagram,
Tik Tok and and YouTube, you have seen
all these robots in action and they're
becoming very very common. Right now in
China, it's very common where they are
now using robots in concerts, dancing
together with humans. I'm sure you've
seen robots uh making popcorn, serving
drinks in restaurants and bars, becoming
more and more common, especially in
China. In fact, China's ahead of the the
US in in in terms of robotics. And of
course, robots in factories, nothing
new, but now you can see it's way more
advanced. If you look at Amazon, they
are now in the process of deploying a
million robots across their factories.
And of course, robots used in uh
deliveries, whether is it drones or
robots on wheels making food deliveries
and stuff like that. And don't forget
when we talk about robots we have to
talk about autonomous vehicles basically
robo taxis that are now uh in being used
in the US certain uh cities like San
Francisco certain parts of China and if
I'm not wrong yeah I'm not wrong I'm
sure of this this year 2026 Singapore is
beginning their trial for robo taxis in
in certain parts of the island
and what else do we have we have got
robots in sports uh you know China has
got a lot of these robots boxing robots
in in marathons and then of course you
have got uh robots in the adult industry
a lot of high techch AI sex robots
coming out and of course this is not yet
a reality but I can tell you that in the
next 10 years uh it's going to be very
common for humanoid robots to be in
almost every home middle class home uh
doing chores doing dishes helping the
children um and It's going to be as
common as owning a TV. So all this is
happening. So the next huge trillion
dollar market would be the robotics
market. Now how big this market is
projected to be 25 trillion. This is a
robotics revolution. This is a 250fold
market surge from current levels and
it's divided into three parts. First
would be professional service and
service robots. You have got autonomous
vehicles and you have got humanoid
robots which are general purpose
humanoid robots that are projected to
emerge as a major new category. So we
already have this very widespread. We
have this slowly becoming more
widespread and this will be the next
leap forward. Now a common question I
get asked is Adam which robotics company
would you invest in? The answer is
actually none of them. Well let me
clarify. I won't invest in any uh
company that makes generalized robots.
Specialized robots maybe, but not
generalized robots like humanoid robots.
Why? Because it's it's going to be so
competitive. There are so many companies
making them that it's going to be a
bloody rate ocean of competition. And I
don't like to invest in companies that
have a lot of competitors, right? is
going to be so competitive. It's going
to be like a commodity where in the end
no one's going to make money and even
those that make money are going to make
very low profit margins. It's the same
reason why I've never invested in the
airline industry. Now, think about it.
When did airlines become widespread?
Commercial airline flying in the 1920s.
And since then, the uh commercial
airline market has grown uh year after
year after year. Now, it's over a
trillion dollars in in market value for
the airline industry. However, at its
peak, there were about 2,000 airline
companies in the 2000s. Right? Out of
the 2,000 airline companies, 90% have
gone bust or have been acquired. 90%
have died. Only 10% survive today. And
of the 10% of airlines that survive
today, only half of them or 5% actually
make money every year. And those that
make money, the net profit margin of an
airline is about 3%. Even some of the
top airlines in the world like Singapore
Airlines, their profit margins are only
8%. So you can see that even though the
entire market has grown and everyone
flies on planes but collectively if you
add up all the profits of all the
companies it is negative. I won't be
surprised if the same thing happens to
again robotics makers in the future
because they're just going to be too
many of them. But does that mean that we
can't make money from the robotics
industry? No, it doesn't mean that. So
for example again look at the airline
industry. Collectively the airline
companies don't make money but who makes
money? Who makes money are the companies
that sell them the planes like Boeing
and Airbus. So same thing in the
robotics industry. So instead of
investing in companies that make robots
like humanoid robots, I rather invest in
companies that sell them the parts
necessary to make these robots. So,
whoever makes the robots, whether is it
Tesla or Xping or Boston Dynamics,
whoever makes the robots, and there are
so many of them, they all have to order
certain parts from specialized equipment
makers or they need specialized
software. So, I rather own the companies
that make the software, which all the
robots have to use, or make the
specialized parts where most of the
robot makers have to purchase. I think
that is where the profit margin lies. I
think that is where the companies with
the wider economic modes lie versus the
robot makers themselves. Unless the
robot makers are very specialized for
example surgical robots. Yes. Then that
I would consider investing. Yeah. So
again these are a list of all the
robotic stocks like I mentioned for the
humanoid robot makers. I'll be weary
investing in them individually but again
they all need software to run. need a
software to train the robot to walk to
grasp things and stuff like that. And in
terms of robotic software, uh two of the
leading companies would be Nvidia and
PTC. So, one of the reasons why I hold
Nvidia as a big position and going to
hold it for the long run is that Nvidia
is not just a semiconductor maker
anymore. They make AI factories and they
are heavily into robotics software
through their Isaac platform, their Isac
SIM which creates a simulated virtual
world where robots can um can uh be
trained in the virtual world and they
also have got project Groot which which
is which is their specific training
software for humanoid robots. And you've
also got PTC which is another uh
robotics software company. But between
the two of course Nvidia has a much
stronger mode and that's the one I own.
Uh at the same time you can also look at
companies that make specific things that
robots need which are sensors and
perception uh equipment. For example,
you've got mobile eye, you've got and I
won't really invest in these stocks
individually because uh as individual
businesses I wouldn't say they are super
high quality. Now, mobile eye is
actually not bad in the sense that
they've got a narrow mode and their
financials are uh not too bad as well.
Well, they are fairly predictable but
not that that profitable yet. They've
got high growth. They've got a moderate
mode. They've got very strong balance
sheet. Um but if you take a look at for
example Inovvis, you can see there's no
mode and u they rate very lowly on
predictability, very lowly on
profitability. So, they're not
profitable right now. And same with
ouster you can see that they are not
profitable as well and they don't have
an economic mode. So just because they
are in a nice niche nice industry but if
the business itself is not consistently
profitable they don't have a very strong
balance sheet then I would rather not
invest in them individually but maybe
invest in them within a larger ETF. Now
you can also take a look at specialized
robots for example like deep sea robots
that go deep down under the sea. You can
look at healthcare robots and these are
the different companies that specialize
in healthcare robots and I would say
that out of these the one that I would
invest in would be intuitive surgical
ticker symbol ISRG because it's a very
high quality company very strong
economic mode but I've not bought it yet
because it's still overvalued. If you
take a look for example again going back
to stock oracle looking at intuitive
surgical you can see wow very high in
predictability very profitable growth
moderate very strong economic mode
strong balance sheet but valuation low
because it is overvalued the current
intrinsic value is 247 is now selling
like 541 so really good company but
again it's kind of like priced to
perfection there isn't much of margin of
safety. You can see the PE ratio is 75
times earnings. Ford P is still 55 times
earnings. Love to buy this but right not
at this price.
And uh you've got other specialized
robots like uh automation companies,
defense robotics, that's a big thing.
And I do invest in defense robotics but
via another ETF which is the SHLD, the
Global X Defense ETF that has done very
well. I bought it early in 2025 and it's
one of my best performers. It went up
like 75% last year and I'm still
invested in it because uh they own a lot
of the high techch defense companies uh
which includes a lot of these unmanned
drones and and and robotics that are
used for the military. You've got
industrial robotics that are made by
these companies like Honeywell. You've
got delivery robots uh and of course
logistics robots. Uh some of you will
know that Amazon is also one of my core
positions because I think out of all the
companies especially among the mad caps
I think it has the it is the biggest
beneficiary of the robotics revolution.
Why? Because a big chunk of their
business is as you know e-commerce and a
big part of their cost historically has
been labor cost. So now they're
replacing almost every human being in
the factory with robots and that would
significantly increase their
productivity, their profit margins and
their earnings per share. So I expect
their earnings to grow significantly in
the next few years as they fully deploy
uh robots. And some of you would know
that Amazon also owns Amazon Robotics
where they make not just their own
robots for factories but they also sell
robots to other logistics companies but
they don't make humanoid robots but
Amazon does have a stake in agility
robotics that makes the digit
humanoid robot that works in the Amazon
factories. So when it comes to specific
companies within the robotics industry,
I would say personally I'm looking at or
I'm invested in Nvidia uh in Amazon and
definitely would love to take a stake in
Intuitive Surgical at the right price.
Uh and if I want to get exposure to the
other parts of the robotics uh market,
then I could look at ETFs.
if I find the in individual companies
are not high quality enough for me to
buy or they they're overvalued or they
don't have a strong mode. So there are
many robotics ETFs and I think that two
of the highest quality ones through my
research would be number one the global
X artificial intelligence and technology
ETF ticker symbol AIQ
uh followed by Eyesshar's future AI and
tech ETF ticker symbol ARTY. And then
the two robotics ETF would be Robo Aro
as well as BOTZ. Now between those four
ETFs, you can see that the best
performer by quite a margin has been
again AIQ and then followed by ARTY,
uh, Robo and BZ. So for example, if you
want to invest in AIQ, again, don't just
jump in blindly, right? Never just go in
all at once. You want to do dollar cost
averaging for investing. buy in stages
when the price has retraced uh to a
support level. So for example, if you
are taking a look at AIQ
uh you can put in some of the moving
averages
um and I you can look at weekly candles
if you're more of an investor and you
can see historically what happens. You
know wave up, wave down touches the red
line, wave up, wave down touches the red
line. So in shallow retracements, it
finds support at this red line. So you
want to at least wait for a time when
the price retraces
to this red line, which is the 20 EMA on
weekly candles. Let it retrace here to
add. Right? So remember wave up, wave
down, we buy. Wave up. We do not want to
buy after wave up. We want to wait for
the next wave down to add in. But if you
happen to have a deeper correction like
midterm election year this year, we may
have uh bigger corrections along the
way. So I would then want to only add a
bigger position only if it reaches the
50 moving average on weekly candles
which is which is a stronger support
during a bigger draw down. So basically
I like to buy in trenches. Another level
I could uh look at would be here
which is a previous swing low. So these
are three support levels where I would
slowly build my position if I wanted to
build a position in this ETF. So we have
just covered the first investment mega
trend. Five more to go. Am I going to
take 10 hours? Don't worry. The rest are
pretty fast. Now the second investment
mega trend is actually something that
I've already made a video on in more
detail recently. So let me just talk
about it. The second investment mega
trend is the AI energy and
infrastructure mega trend. Remember that
to run AI and robotics and autonomous
vehicles, you need a tremendous amount
of electricity. That's right. So
historically electricity consumption has
only grown at less than 1% a year. But
because of the consumption needs of AI
robotics, the need for electricity, the
demand is going to grow double digits in
the next few decades. So recently it's
been reported by Morgan Stanley that
there's a projected 44 gawatt power
deficit by 2028 because of number one AI
exponential growth needs a tremendous
amount of electricity to run AI
factories 24/7 or data centers. Second
is the electrification of the entire
economy electric vehicles robotics and
onshoring back to the US manufacturing
needs a lot of electricity. So again,
why is this a mega trend? Because as AI
adoption accelerates, as all companies
use AI or people use AI, AI data centers
may drive a 15 to 30% compounded annual
growth rate in electricity consumption
for AI workloads through 2030. Again, I
made a whole video on this about 10 days
ago. So do check out this YouTube video
called a new growth sector. Yeah. So I
was talking about the utility sector as
well as the industrial sector as well.
And again the way to invest in it would
be specific um independent power
producers that are generating the power
for data centers. Independent power
producers like constellation energy like
Vistra for example. And the next thing
is to look at grid infrastructure
companies like Ethon Corporation as well
as uh nuclear power companies and
uranium companies. And as I mentioned in
this video, do watch this video. I say
personally I would I would not invest in
these individual companies uh because
they don't really meet my investment
criteria which is really strict. So I
would rather invest in ETFs and I've
mentioned what are some of the key ETFs
within uh this sector in that video. So
check out that video for the second
investment mega trend. Third investment
bank trend is a big one and I've got
quite a number of positions within this
mega trend. What is that? Healthcare and
the longevity mega trend. What are
drivers of this mega trend? It's the
silver tsunami. By 2050, the number of
people aged 65 and older is projected to
double to 1.6 billion in the world. And
as a result, you're going to see rising
chronic disease like diabetes in the
world. Number two driver, massive
cultural and economic shifts towards
healthy longevity. So as you notice
people around you are getting more and
more health conscious. The third would
be the adoption of AI in drug discovery
and precision medicine. Medicine that's
tailored uh for your specific DNA.
That's another very very big industry.
Now why is this a long-term secular mega
trend? Because people age 65 and over,
I'm soon going to be in that cohort
unfortunately are the fastest growing
demographic in the world now. And as
people age, what happens? They increase
their health care consumption. And the
other good thing about this sector which
is healthcare and longevity is that it
is recession proof. In the worst
recession, you still need to go to
hospitals, you still need medication.
It's recession proof with a very strong
uh trend. So within the health care uh
sector, if you will, there are a few
high growth subsegments within this
sector. The first would be metabolic
health which would be drugs to combat
obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular
risk. Among these the biggest market is
obesity. The two leading companies Novon
Nordis and Eli Liy. Now Novo Nordis used
to have a 80% 90% market share in the
obesity market but because their
management really screwed up their
supply chain management. they didn't
have enough supply to meet the demand
and then we had alternative generic
competition catching up. We have got Eli
Lilly catching up and as a result their
market share from 90% has now dropped
below 50%. And Eli Liy actually
increased their market share to now
above 50%. So right now Eli Lee is the
leader in uh the obesity market because
again Novi screwed up but they fight
their management they got a new
management in and right now they are the
first to introduce the oral uh pill for
weight loss and Eli Liy is going to
launch it very soon but I think it's
delayed to to quarter two. So it's a
fight between the two. Now between these
two companies, Eli Lily is so-called now
the leader and Nova Nautis is like the
underdog that's now trying to catch up.
I bought Nova Nautis some time ago. Uh
and the reason I didn't buy Eli Lily at
the time is because Eli was way
overvalued. But now that Eli has
actually generated huge profits, their
new intrinsic value now puts them at no
longer being overvalued. So now Eli Liy
is also undervalued but not as much as
Novo Nord is. And if you ask me between
the two, yeah, Eli is the much stronger
company. Um, not just because they've
got a higher market share than Novo Nord
is, but also because they don't just
lead in obesity, but they have
leadership in other areas like oncology,
which is cancer, and Alzheimer's
research. All right. Um, so frankly
speaking, if I didn't own
either company, I'll probably buy Eli
Liy first. But again, the reason I
bought Novo at the time was because Eli
was too expensive. I bought Novo because
it was cheap. And now it's still very
cheap. But now it looks like it's
beginning to rebound as they are uh as
they have as a new management has taken
over and now they're beginning to
so-called slowly win back their market
share. In the near future, I'll probably
take a stake in Eli as well so that I'm
exposed to to both of them. But I want
to be careful to not overexpose to drug
companies because drug companies in
general in the long run are one of the
more unpredictable in terms of
healthcare companies. I prefer bigger
stakes in hospitals for example which I
do have a big stake in HCA healthcare
which is the biggest private hospital
chain in the US as well as bigger stakes
in medical devices companies right so
for example if you look at moves you can
see currently it's at $57 it is about
roughly about 35 36% undervalued
uh it remains fundamentals remain very
very strong you can see price is down a
lot right now is slowly beginning to
reverse and I think more or less it has
made its bottom. The way Novo is priced
right now, it is priced
in a way that is only projected to grow
at 4% in the long run, which I think the
market is being overly pessimistic.
Analysts are over pessimistic. I think
that if they can show that they can grow
again
back to double digits, then I think the
share price could easily double from
here. All right. On the other hand, Eli
is analysts are already projecting a 30%
growth in the next 5 years and a 18%
growth in the long run. And based on
that projection, they are worth 1,3 and
at today's share price, they are
slightly undervalued. Other growth
segments number two, robotics and
precision surgery, which I already
talked about in the earlier part of this
video, and the leader in that area is
Intuitive Surgical, ticker symbol ISRG.
Great company. I love to own it. Right
now, still too expensive. Waiting for it
to get cheap. Let's see when that
happens. Next would be medical devices
and diagnostic companies. Companies like
thermopisher, Idex laboratories and
adward life sciences. All three are
great companies of which I own two of
them. And next will be healthcare and IT
platforms. These are basically software
that runs the healthcare industry like
Viva Systems and IQVIA.
And you've got scale managed health care
services or basically health insurance
and managed care services like United
Health and HCA Healthcare. Both are
fundamentally great companies. Of
course, United Health because of
short-term problems and negative market
sentiment, it is still currently very
undervalued. And of course, we know that
Buffett recently took a big stake in
United Health and just in fact bought
more in the last quarter as well. But
now he's retired right now. How about
biotech? Because we know that biotech
can be a very high growth industry. And
biotech, if they come up with a
breakthrough drug, you can have the
share price go up 10, 50, 100fold,
right? But bear in mind that while
biotech names can deliver huge upside,
their economic mode is less durable and
the outcomes are more binary. So in
other words, very high risk, very
speculative. So biotech companies either
make it very big or they die.
>> [laughter]
>> Okay. So, personally for me, I won't
invest in an individual biotech company
unless it's like a short-term trade
uh or unless I buy within an ETF. But to
do a long-term investment in biotech,
it's it's very very risky and uh beyond
my risk appetite. Yeah. So again as
usual as an investor you can look at
individual leaders in these different
segments or simply invest and write the
mega trend through an ETF and there are
many healthcare ETFs. So for example,
you've got the healthcare uh sector ETF
ticker symbol XLV which basically
invests in all the segments whether is
it drugs, manage healthcare,
biotech
and and and medical devices all roll
into one. If you want to invest in
specific subsegments like medical
devices then you can look at ETFs like
IHI which is the Eyesshares US medical
devices ETF. All right, so we covered
the first three mega trends and I'll do
the next three in part three of this
video series. I'll see you guys in the
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In this second part of his investment mega-trends series, the speaker explores robotics, AI energy infrastructure, and the healthcare longevity sector. He argues that the real profit in the $25 trillion robotics revolution lies in 'picks and shovels' like software and specialized components rather than generic robot manufacturers. The video also highlights the massive electricity deficit caused by AI data centers and provides a deep dive into the healthcare sector, specifically comparing obesity drug leaders Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.
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