Cody Acree

Chip companies are getting ready for stronger demand in the back half of the year. There's a big difference between read more

Chip companies are getting ready for stronger demand in the back half of the year. There's a big difference between building a safety margin and overbuilding, ... People have been pessimistic, but we continue to get fairly firm fundamentals about the environment for PCs and semiconductors overall.

The biggest thing here is what inventories are looking like and what demand is looking like for the first quarter.

The biggest thing here is what inventories are looking like and what demand is looking like for the first quarter.

Companies like Texas Instruments, companies like Cisco Systems in enterprise networking. Leaders in their space, bellwethers, big-cap liquid names that read more

Companies like Texas Instruments, companies like Cisco Systems in enterprise networking. Leaders in their space, bellwethers, big-cap liquid names that I think are going to be around for the long term, leaders in the up cycle, ... Companies that the institutional investor can get in and out of quickly and that tends to draw a larger portion of the money when we have these volatile times.

We generally have had a good feeling going into the third and fourth quarters because the economy is doing better read more

We generally have had a good feeling going into the third and fourth quarters because the economy is doing better than expected. Semiconductors are going to get a boost from seasonal trends.

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss