
Rockwater
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Rockwater
@RockwaterX
Trading is my Sudoku – love the game.






I’ve finally pulled the trigger on a new position that I think is going to be a cornerstone of my holdings for the next decade. I’m officially long $OUST (Ouster, Inc.). If you’ve been following my "long-term trilogy"; $ONDS, $KRKNF, and $AMPX then you know my vibe. I’m looking for companies that aren't just "tech stocks," but the actual backbone of the next industrial revolution. I’ve added more to those three recently, and $OUST is joining them as a permanent fixture in the long-term bucket. Here is the lowdown on why I’m so high on this one. One of my favorite Peter Lynch rules is the "Mall Walk" test. Basically, if you can see a company’s products working in the real world, you’re onto something. With $OUST, it’s everywhere if you look: Warehouse tech: Those autonomous forklifts and robots moving boxes? That’s often Ouster’s 3D vision. Smart Cities: Ever see those sensor pods on traffic lights? They’re replacing those old-school wires in the asphalt to make intersections safer. Security: High-end perimeter sensors that don't freak out every time a cat walks by? That’s Ouster’s "Gemini" software at work. We talk a lot about AI in the digital sense (like ChatGPT), but "Physical AI" is where things get real. Machines need to "see" and "think" in 3D to move through our world. Ouster is the leader in Digital LiDAR. While their competitors are mostly using "analog" tech (think vacuum tubes; clunky and expensive), Ouster has shrunk the tech onto two simple chips. It’s the same shift we saw from film cameras to digital. It’s cheaper, it’s smaller, and it scales way better. When I look at who is actually using this tech, it’s a "who’s who" of heavy hitters. We aren't talking about speculative startups; we’re talking about +850 customers including: > Retail/Logistics: $AMZN & $SERV > Industrial Giants: $DE (John Deere) > Government: NASA, US Army, US Navy, @anduriltech If the Army and NASA trust your "eyes" to guide their hardware, you’ve probably got the best tech on the block. Right now, the TAM is solid, $OUST sit on around 4% of the market, but we’re only scratching the surface of a +20% CAGR in the immediate sensing market. However, the future potential TAM is where the "tenbagger" potential lives. As we move toward fully autonomous shipping, port automation, and mass-market vehicle safety, the ceiling for LiDAR basically disappears. If you look at the chart, $OUST has been beaten up lately. It’s down about 35% over the last six months. The whole market is jittery about interest rates and oil. They had a huge Q4, but some of it was a one-time royalty check. The "smart money" used that as an excuse to exit, but the actual product sales are still growing like crazy (shipped 25k+ units last year). The company is debt-free with over $210M in cash. In Lynch terms: a company that has no debt can’t go bankrupt. They have a 7-year runway to just keep innovating even if the economy stays weird. Final Thoughts I’m treating $OUST just like my positions in $ONDS, $KRKNF, and $AMPX. This is a conviction play. This case requires patience. It won’t go to the moon tomorrow. But with their tech advantage and customer base, I truly believe $OUST is a potential tenbagger over the next 5 to 10 years. Stay patient, stay long. -BP Please note: This is not financial advice.

Am I that popular? I did get a lot of dm requests to manage their capital recently. But only here to help out regular retail investors succeed on their own with ideas like $SIVE or $SOI. I feel like anything else would be a bit of a distraction.





There ya have it. Rocket Lab ($680M revenue biz) market cap meets Northrop's ($43B revenue biz).




𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬. There's been a lot happening at IREN recently. Expansion across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The NVIDIA partnership. The Mirantis acquisition. New GPU deployments. New customer discussions. A growing global footprint. Underneath all of it is a fairly simple view of where the world is heading, and a deliberate strategy for how we position IREN within it. That strategy is built on three layers. Together, they compound into a structural advantage that gets harder to replicate every quarter we execute. Layer 1: Physical infrastructure. Power, land, substations, data centers, cooling. The foundation that everything else sits on. Layer 2: Compute infrastructure. The GPUs, servers and networking that go inside those buildings. Deployed at scale. Generating revenue. Building execution track record. Layer 3: Software and operational capability. The orchestration, deployment tooling and enterprise expertise that makes the first two layers work harder for customers, and opens the door to a broader, higher-value market over time. Layers 1 and 2 are where the overwhelming majority of IREN's value is being created today. Layer 3 is where that advantage compounds further over time, but only because Layers 1 and 2 are built, owned and controlled at scale by IREN, not subscale nor contracted from a third party. Think of Amazon. They didn't win e-commerce by building a great website. They won it by controlling the fulfilment infrastructure at a scale nobody else could replicate. The foundation you don't control becomes the ceiling on your business. That is exactly how we think about IREN. The physical infrastructure - the land, the power, the substations, the data centers - is owned and controlled by us. The compute deployed into it generates the revenue and execution track record. And the software, orchestration and enterprise capability we are more methodically building on top is what turns the total product into a vertically integrated AI Cloud platform that compounds over time and deepens into a competitive moat. AI is still early. The bottleneck is increasingly physical. And we have spent eight years building the foundations.









