Stocks to get impact from GTC 2026

Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $5,000,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on larger, more established companies.
   • Rationale:
     • GTC (NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference) primarily moves sentiment and expectations around major players in AI, semiconductors, and cloud infrastructure.
     • Larger firms are more likely to:
       • Be suppliers, partners, or direct competitors to NVIDIA.
       • Feature prominently in analyst reports and media coverage tied to GTC announcements.
     • This filter removes micro/small caps that may not have clear, direct exposure to GTC themes or may move for unrelated reasons.

2. Beta: HighRisk (High Beta)

   • Purpose: Capture stocks that typically react more strongly to major tech/AI news and events.
   • Rationale:
     • High-beta stocks tend to move more than the overall market when catalysts occur.
     • GTC can be a significant sentiment driver (e.g., new GPU launches, AI roadmap updates, ecosystem announcements); high-beta tech/AI names are more likely to show noticeable price impact—positive or negative—around such events.

3. Themes: AI Beneficiary, Semiconductor Equipment & Materials, Cloud Computing, Technology

   • Purpose: Target companies whose business models are most directly connected to what GTC is about.
   • Rationale (by theme):
     • AI Beneficiary:
       • GTC is heavily focused on AI workloads, models, and infrastructure.
       • Companies building AI software, platforms, or services—or whose demand is driven by AI investment—are prime candidates to be impacted by GTC news and NVIDIA’s AI roadmap.
     • Semiconductor Equipment & Materials:
       • NVIDIA’s roadmap influences GPU demand, fab capacity, and capex across the semi supply chain.
       • Equipment and materials vendors (e.g., lithography, etch, deposition, substrates) can see changing expectations based on GPU demand signals disclosed at GTC.
     • Cloud Computing:
       • Hyperscalers and cloud infrastructure providers are major buyers and deployers of NVIDIA GPUs and AI infrastructure.
       • Any shifts in AI infrastructure strategy, new GPU platforms, or partnerships announced at GTC can directly affect cloud providers and related ecosystem companies.
     • Technology (broad):
       • Captures other tech firms that may not be pure-play AI or semi but still function within the broader stack (software, infrastructure, platforms) that interacts with NVIDIA’s technologies.

4. Region: United States

   • Purpose: Limit the universe to U.S.-listed companies.
   • Rationale:
     • GTC is a global event, but U.S. markets and U.S.-listed tech names tend to be most actively traded and most closely followed in relation to NVIDIA.
     • U.S. firms are more likely to have:
       • High analyst coverage around AI and GTC.
       • Immediate price reactions that retail and institutional U.S. investors can access and trade.

5. News Driver: Positive or Negative

   • Purpose: Include stocks currently seeing meaningful news flow (good or bad) related to relevant themes.
   • Rationale:
     • “Expected to be impacted” often correlates with companies already being discussed in the news or research as AI/NVIDIA-related beneficiaries or risks.
     • By including both Positive and Negative drivers, the screen doesn’t assume GTC will only be bullish:
       • Positive: potential beneficiaries of AI demand or partnerships.
       • Negative: potential competitive threats, margin pressures, or capex concerns from new GTC disclosures.
     • This helps surface names that the market is already actively reassessing in an AI/NVIDIA context.

6. Is Optionable: True

   • Purpose: Restrict to stocks with listed options.
   • Rationale:
     • Event-driven traders often use options to position around GTC (volatility trades, directional bets).
     • Being optionable is a proxy for higher liquidity and institutional interest, increasing the odds that GTC-related news will translate into meaningful price and volume reactions.

Why Results Match the GTC 2026 Question

• The filters collectively narrow the universe to U.S. large-cap, liquid, high-beta tech/AI/semi/cloud stocks—the group most likely to:
  • Be directly referenced at GTC (partners, suppliers, competitors).
  • Experience noticeable price moves in response to AI/GPU roadmap updates.
• The theme filters focus specifically on segments where GTC announcements have the most fundamental and sentiment impact (AI, semis, cloud).
• The news driver and optionable filters emphasize names that:
  • Are already in the market’s AI/NVIDIA conversation.
  • Have the liquidity and derivatives activity that often amplifies event-driven reactions.

So, while we can’t know in advance exactly which names will move or in what direction, these filters are designed to isolate the set of stocks with the highest likelihood of being meaningfully influenced—positively or negatively—by GTC 2026 developments.