$CRDO is ripping +5.4% After Hours for a very specific reason. At $150 it feels like a gift.
The company that actually builds the AI racks and switches just told the market demand is exploding.
$CLS (+16.8% AH) :
• Revenue +83%.
• Networking +102%.
• Guiding 2027 to nearly double ($40B).
• Explicitly named 800G & 1.6T.
• 2028 demand forecasts even higher.
Inside those racks, copper still wins and $CRDO owns ~95% of that market.
The stock just dropped 20% on “1.6T is slowing” fears.
Turns out the demand pipe is accelerating into 2028.
Most people still haven’t connected it.
That’s the move.
We are long and bullish $CRDO. NFA.
This is not the optics rally.
This is the appetizer.
$LITE, $COHR, $AAOI, $CIEN, $AXT, $CRDO… the whole stack moved today.
Most people still don’t understand how tight the optical bottleneck is getting.
$CRDO is doing something special after hours. Will drop an explanation later.
Thank me in Q1, not yet.