Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. APD

Bloom Energy (BE) earned nearly 90% of its latest quarterly revenue from selling its power equipment. In fiscal Q2 2026, a record quarter for the company, those equipment sales reached $935 million. Over the past year, the stock returned 314%, against 16.8% for the S&P 500. A stock that has run this far would be exposed if those sales slowed. Should investors in Bloom Energy worry that its record quarter came mostly from one kind of sale.

Most of Bloom Energy's customers never own the power equipment they use. You probably expect the story to be AI data center demand, which is real. But demand is not what investors have missed. The shares fell 13.8% in three months as the S&P 500 rose 5.0%. So who does pay Bloom Energy (BE) for its equipment.

Some companies grow quietly because their customers physically cannot leave them, and four stocks have turned that structural trap into decades of compounding returns most investors overlook entirely.

Ashland Inc. (NYSE:ASH) has long anchored its investment thesis on dependable operating cash flow generation, high free cash flow conversion, and disciplined balance sheet capital allocation. Much like how peers in the broader specialty materials sector deploy targeted capital into mission-critical niches, similar to how Air Products is quietly cornering high-margin chip fab supply chains, […]

Bloom Energy (BE) stock gained 228% over the past year, against 16.7% for the S&P 500. The record second quarter it reported in July came late in that run. Over those twelve months Bloom took a business built on power for hospitals and factories and made it a supplier the major U.S. hyperscalers now approve. Today's price assumes that keeps paying.

On September 16, Air Products (NYSE:APD) said it had signed a long-term deal to supply high-purity gases to a leading chipmaker, backed by roughly $250 million of its own money in Arizona. It is the company’s second semiconductor supply win, and the two projects together carry more than $900 million of investment. That is a […]

Three longtime Dividend Aristocrats are closing in on a milestone only a handful of US companies have ever reached, but only one of them is genuinely standing on the doorstep of joining the most exclusive income-investing club in the market.

In mid-September 2026, Air Products Inc. announced it had signed a long-term agreement with a leading semiconductor manufacturer and will invest about US$250,000,000 in Arizona to build, own and operate high-purity gas supply infrastructure for the customer’s expanding U.S. manufacturing and advanced packaging facilities. This second recent semiconductor manufacturing supply win, bringing combined investments in the segment to over US$900,000,000, highlights Air Products’ deepening role in...

A CNBC analyst says the world's largest industrial gas supplier is already locking up the contracts that will define the AI chip buildout, yet the stock is priced like a utility. Here is why that gap may not last.

Air Products (NYSE:APD) today announced it has signed a long-term agreement with one of the leading semiconductor manufacturers to supply high-purity industrial gases and related infrastructure to support the customer's plant and production expansion plans in the United States (U.S.). This is the second semiconductor manufacturing supply win Air Products has recently announced with a combined investment of more than $900 million overall with the two projects.

Air Products (NYSE: APD) will highlight new industrial gas supply innovations as well as glass melting and downstream process technologies at the 87th Conference on Glass Problems in Toledo, Ohio, from Sept. 14-17.