The sectors best positioned amid AI uncertainty, tech volatility

Yahoo Finance Video and Josh Lipton

Thu, February 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM GMT+9

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Market volatility persists as Wall Street tries to make sense of the latest AI concerns emerging in certain corners of the tech sector.

Emerald Advisers deputy CIO and portfolio manager David Volpe names several of the sectors best-positioned for this uncertainty.

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Video Transcript

00:00 Speaker A

I’m just curious how you would sort of broadly describe the market mood we find ourselves in right now, Dave. Just in in terms of the the market action, investor sentiment. How how would you characterize it?

00:15 Speaker B

Well, Josh, I should say it’s uh cautious at this point in time. After the last five weeks, you had the Nasdaq down uh five weeks in a row. Uh, you’ve seen a big um, sector rotation away from, you know, certainly software uh into is hardware, into some of the safer areas of the market, into areas such as materials and energy that really the people perceive is not uh being able to be supplanted by AI. So, again, caution, but at the same time, there’s certain areas of the market that are really, really working. Uh maybe not so much on the mega caps, uh but certainly the rest of the market, there are areas that are that have been strong.

00:59 Speaker A

Well, what’s on that theme, David? I guess I’m curious. What what are the sectors that you think, okay, against that backdrop, in that environment you described, what what are the sectors you think these these are relatively best positioned?

01:14 Speaker B

Josh, we like to say, well I like to say that um, you stay with the date that you brought to the dance. And for us, that means uh aerospace, that means AI infrastructure, that means um areas like healthcare. We’re really strong in healthcare, so a lot of the growthier names are acquisition candidates. Uh material names, energy names, but again, AI infrastructure in particular, whether it’s power, connectivity, um uh other areas uh in terms of cooling uh in AI. So, uh as long as these names, you know, you have rumors, you have stories, but it’s the same as your date. You listen to if you listen to those stories, you know, maybe you’re not going to go home with that date. In this case, you got to go through you got to see through that a little bit and um that’s what we’ve done.

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