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Why $NOW May Be One of the Most Misunderstood AI Stocks Right Now

I think ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW) is getting caught in the broader “SaaS is dead” narrative and Wall Street may be overlooking what the company is actually becoming.

Right now the market seems obsessed with the idea that AI will destroy traditional SaaS companies:

• fewer employees = fewer software seats
• AI agents replace workflows
• cheaper AI-native competitors appear overnight
• enterprise software margins compress

And honestly, I understand the fear. A lot of SaaS companies probably *will* get disrupted.

But I think the market may be lumping NOW into the wrong category.

Most people still think of ServiceNow as:

“enterprise ticketing software.”

But increasingly it looks more like:

an operating layer for enterprise AI workflows.

The key thing I think investors are missing is that AI inside enterprises creates *more orchestration complexity*, not less.

Large companies still need:
• governance
• permissions
• workflow automation
• compliance
• approvals
• audit trails
• cross-platform integrations
• data coordination between departments

AI agents don’t magically eliminate those problems — in many ways they make them more important.

That’s where NOW seems uniquely positioned.

The company already sits deeply embedded inside enterprise operations:
• IT
• HR
• customer service
• security
• procurement
• operations workflows

Once those systems are integrated, switching costs become enormous. The platform becomes part of the company’s operational infrastructure, not just another software subscription. Several investors and analysts have highlighted this “process entrenchment” and high switching-cost moat recently.

What’s interesting is the stock has been heavily derated anyway because of broader AI/SaaS fear.
Despite strong AI product growth, raised guidance, and expanding AI offerings, NOW has sold off dramatically from prior highs amid worries that AI could compress traditional SaaS economics.

But the bear case may actually be creating the opportunity.

The market seems to be pricing NOW like:
• a mature SaaS company,
• with slowing growth,
• vulnerable to AI disruption.

Meanwhile the bull case is that NOW becomes:
• the orchestration layer,
• governance layer,
• and workflow control system
for enterprise AI adoption.

That’s a very different valuation framework.
I’m not saying it’s risk-free. Valuation is still premium relative to many software names and AI disruption risk is real. Even bulls admit the stock has historically traded at aggressive multiples.

But I think there’s a real possibility Wall Street is underestimating how valuable workflow ownership becomes in an AI-driven enterprise environment.
Curious what others think:

Is NOW a future AI infrastructure winner?
Or is this still just an overvalued SaaS company being disrupted in slow motion?

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u/bindytrades — 4 days ago
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u/Beyos — 3 days ago
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DRAM or SOXX

Do u guys think the memory industry is bound to have a correction or keep going?

still a good time to buy into dram, or soxx?

Tryna avoid fomo hahah

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u/EmptyChain8453 — 5 days ago
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I day traded up from £5k to £10k, needed the profit so have withdrawn. I want longer term stocks to invest in

As title says. Work has picked up so I can’t day trade any more, need safe(ish) stocks which will increase well over the coming months years. If anyone has some advice it would be appreciated.

I’m currently in CLNN SOUN and RUM and around 10% down. Looking to cut my losses today and invest roughly £5/£6k into stocks I don’t need to check every 5 minutes.

Thanks!

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u/That_East_9587 — 15 hours ago
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🚨 POET Might Be One of the Most Explosive AI Infrastructure Plays Nobody Fully Understands Yet

Everyone is chasing GPUs… but what if the real bottleneck in AI isn’t compute anymore?

What if it’s moving data fast enough between chips, racks, and data centers?

That’s where POET Technologies comes in.

POET ($POET) has been absolutely ripping lately, gaining roughly 50% last week as investors pile into the photonic networking narrative tied to AI data centers.

The thesis is getting harder to ignore.

🔦 The Big Picture: AI Infrastructure Is Hitting a Wall

Traditional copper interconnects are becoming a massive problem for hyperscale AI clusters:
• Too much heat
• Too much power consumption
• Signal degradation at ultra-high speeds
• Scaling limitations for 800G → 1.6T networking
• Photonics solves this by using light instead of electricity to move data.

Think:
• lower latency
• lower power draw
• higher bandwidth
• better thermal efficiency

This is becoming one of the most important themes in next-gen AI infrastructure.

Why POET Is Suddenly On Everyone’s Radar

POET isn’t trying to compete with Nvidia.
They’re trying to become a critical layer underneath the AI ecosystem through their Optical Interposer platform — designed for optical engines, transceivers, and photonic integrated solutions for hyperscale data centers.

Recent catalysts:
• Strategic partnerships with LITEON, Lessengers, Sivers, and others
• Growing interest in 800G and 1.6T optical networking
• Massive AI data center capex wave
• Retail speculation about potential order announcements during earnings
• Hundreds of millions raised to scale commercialization

The company is basically transitioning from:

“interesting photonics R&D story”

to:

“possible real AI infrastructure supplier.”

🧠 The Bull Case

If POET executes:
• photonics demand could explode
• AI networking spend could become enormous
hyperscalers may desperately need more efficient optical solutions
• small-cap valuation leaves huge upside potential

The market is beginning to realize that AI isn’t just about chips anymore.

It’s also about:
• connectivity
• networking
• optical scaling
• thermal efficiency
• power consumption

And POET sits directly in that conversation.

⚠️** But Don’t Ignore The Risk**s
This is still highly speculative.

The company:
• is not meaningfully profitable
• still has limited revenue traction
• has diluted shareholders multiple times
• needs successful execution + customer adoption
• trades heavily on future expectations

Even bullish investors acknowledge that the “show me the orders” phase is now critical.

Final Thoughts
POET feels like one of those stocks that could either:
become a legitimate AI infrastructure winner over the next few years

or

flame out trying to commercialize ambitious technology.

But one thing is clear:

The market is finally waking up to the idea that AI scaling requires a photonics revolution — and POET is one of the smaller names directly exposed to that trend.

• High risk.
• Potentially massive reward.

Curious what everyone else thinks about the future of optical networking and photonics in AI.

u/bindytrades — 2 days ago
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FATN still good for long ! good upside

A few weeks ago I published a post when the stock was at 1.90 Those who laughed in the meantime saw that it had risen with good news. Now it has received another high target and is still very good for long ! $

lets see the next move up with more good news !

give upvote and i will do my best to bring more good stocks for long

thanks

u/BOOMHOTSTOCKS — 10 hours ago
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What stock do you regret selling too early?

Mine is definitely Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR).
I bought around $7 and sold around $40. At the time, I genuinely thought I was making the smart/rational decision.

The stock had already run massively, valuation metrics looked insane, dilution was a huge concern, and honestly I didn’t fully understand the business the way I thought I did.

A lot of it sounded abstract:

AI operating systems

ontology

data fusion

government/intelligence software

enterprise decision platforms

Back then it felt like the market was pricing in perfection for what many people viewed as “basically a government contractor.”

I also think I evaluated it too much on current fundamentals and not enough on future positioning. I didn’t fully foresee how important AI infrastructure, military AI, and enterprise AI deployment would become over the next few years.

At the time, locking in a 5x+ gain felt responsible. Now looking back, I realize there’s a difference between:

a stock being overhyped
vs
a company where the market still hasn’t fully grasped the long-term optionality.

Curious what stock others sold early that still bothers them a little — and more importantly, why you sold it at the time. Did your thesis actually change, or did the stock simply become something bigger than you originally understood?

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u/bindytrades — 4 days ago
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$FLWS is now highest SI stock at 85% in entire market higher than $car $hims $htz $onds $eose $clsk $soun $grpn

$FLWS is now highest SI stock at 85% in entire market higher than $car $hims $htz $onds $eose $clsk $soun $grpn or any other stock you can think of

flws si started at 50% and now has ballooned to 85% it keeps going up daily

it just got another upgrade on Friday too

if retail unites here they this can go from $4 to $40

$39 was it’s all time high during the last crazy ran it experienced

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u/Normal-Foundation983 — 4 days ago