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SCHD's rulebook kicked out one of the market's hottest chip stocks before its biggest run, and the reason it happened reveals a hidden cost that no expense ratio will ever show you.
Applied Materials (AMAT) sold a record $7 billion of chipmaking tools in fiscal Q3 2026. That was about 77% of its $9.1 billion in revenue for the quarter. When you own the stock, you mostly own those tool sales. A record that large is easy to read as the new normal. So what might Applied Materials investors be overlooking about those tool sales.
Qualcomm (QCOM) stock is up 46% over six months. It still trades about 26% below its high of the past year. At 21 times earnings, about the market's level, the price appears to assume Qualcomm keeps growing as Apple sales shrink. Qualcomm plans to fill that gap with car and data center chips, and is raising prices as memory costs climb. Both plans are under way. So is there a case for waiting before you buy Qualcomm.
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