MongoDB, Inc. (MDB)

It has more than tripled though remains down over 30% from its late-2020 peak. Generative AI is a huge boost for them which is why shares have caught fire. Last year they turned a profit and this year their profits should double. The valuation is huge, but the street predicts it will become the King of the Cloud.

A cloud company that does database management, beloved by app developers. It's soared 10x since its IPO less than four years ago, including a 173% run in 2020. This (and cloud stocks) peaked earlier this year at $428 in February then plunged to $238 in its May lows. Since then, it's roared back to $390 and now $350 today. It's volatile. At the end of June, it lost some momentum with a secondary offering. The stock is down 2% YTD. It's growing 32% annually, but is pricey at 30x this year's PE estimates. (Snowflake is at 70s, though.) He's conflicted.

Hold your winners, and trim if a position grows too large in a portfolio. MDB is in a hot area in tech. Traditional enterprises are struggling with how to make use of cloud computing; it's a complicated issue with the big question being, what do you do with databases? Oracle has long been dominant here, but many companies feel trapped in their relationship with Oracle. MDB arrives from a different direction--open-sourced that allows users the flexibility to move that data. That said, MDB is a complicated sale; it's lumpy and chunky. It's a volatile stock, and he'd own only a small holding.