The Market Rotates Back To Our Core Themes
Big moves in AI infrastructure, reindustrialization, and domestic energy capacity names.
Rotation Returns To Our Core Themes
Yesterday’s tape didn’t look like much if you only watched the indexes. The S&P barely budged, the Dow slipped a little, and the Nasdaq chopped sideways. Nothing to see there.
But under the surface, something very different was happening.
A rotation—the first real one in weeks—ripped straight into the parts of the market that had been hit hardest during the recent pullback, including many of the names tied to our core themes of AI infrastructure, reindustrialization, and domestic energy capacity. These are the same themes I wrote about in my November 23rd post, The Market Pullback Has Been Worse Than It Looks
The pullback didn’t reflect deterioration in the businesses; it reflected fear and de-risking. Yesterday looked like the first reversal of that process.
It showed up most clearly in one of our Top Ten names from Wednesday night: USA Rare Earth (USAR 0.00%↑). USAR was the subject of one of the two top names trades in our trade alert Thursday morning.
After we published that alert, USAR jumped 24.68%.
That move wasn’t just random noise. It reflected a combination of fundamental news, policy developments, and a broader rotation back into real-economy enablers of the AI boom.
What Lit The Fuse Under USAR
USAR’s surge wasn’t purely sentiment. It had real catalysts behind it. As Seeking Alpha News noted yesterday:
Early Thursday, the company announced that its newly acquired Less Common Metals subsidiary had signed a supply agreement to provide high-quality rare-earth materials for Arnold Magnetic Technologies, a major U.S. producer of advanced permanent magnets.
That follows USAR’s recent $100M acquisition of LCM, the only proven ex-China producer of both light and heavy rare-earth magnet metals at scale.
And then in the afternoon, a Trump administration official said the U.S. government plans to take more equity stakes in critical-minerals companies.
A one-two punch: commercial validation and national-security tailwind.
But that still doesn’t fully explain a +24.7% move in a single session. To get that kind of follow-through, you needed something bigger:
A rotation back into names aligned with the AI industrial build-out.
And that rotation showed up across our existing positions—which is exactly why we noticed it so clearly.
More Signals The Rotation Is Real
Every one of the companies below is a name we already had open trades on, which made the move especially apparent. These weren’t isolated pops—they hit across the themes we’ve been positioned in for months:
Eos Energy (EOSE 0.00%↑)—utility-scale battery systems enabling grid reliability for AI-driven power loads—+15.06%
NuScale Power (SMR 0.00%↑)—modular nuclear reactors addressing the growing power deficit tied to data-center expansion—+13.46%
UiPath (PATH 0.00%↑)—enterprise automation software accelerating labor productivity—+24.36%
ASP Isotopes (ASPI 0.00%↑)—advanced isotope production supporting nuclear, medical, and defense supply chains—+16.4%
Oklo (OKLO 0.00%↑)—fast-reactor micro-nuclear systems designed for high-density, long-duration energy demand—+15.59%
Rocket Lab (RKLB 0.00%↑)—launch and space infrastructure enabling satellite deployment—+10.4%
These weren’t meme surges or short squeezes. These were coherent, theme-aligned moves across the companies powering the real-world infrastructure behind AI, electrification, and domestic manufacturing.
When all of your positions tied to the same long-term industrial themes start jumping in a flat tape, the message is clear:
The market is rotating back to where the secular growth actually is.
Why This Matters For PA Top Names
Because the system didn’t predict the news.
It didn’t need to.
It identified USAR as one of the highest-potential names on Wednesday night—and when the catalysts and rotation arrived, the setup was already there.
That’s why Portfolio Armor’s top names have historically outperformed. Across 127 rolling six-month periods since December 2022:
Portfolio Armor Top Ten average six-month return: +20.20%
SPY average six-month return: +10.13%
Performance page: https://portfolioarmor.com/performance-top-names
When sentiment returns to fundamentally strong themes, it tends to return fast.
What’s Next
We’ll have another Top Names trade alert going out later today—a name aligned with the same reindustrialization and embodied-AI themes that surged yesterday.
For now, the takeaway is simple:
Yesterday wasn’t noise—it was a signal.
And our system had us positioned for it.