Are Index Funds Making the Market “Irrational”?

In this occurrence of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, Motley Fool contributors Jon Quast, Matt Frankel, and Rachel Warren discuss:

• High bandwidth representation for AI.

• SK Hynix's U.S. IPO.

• What happens with ETFs erstwhile companies spell public?

• How ETFs and scale funds power markets.

• Rational vs. irrational banal prices.

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Jon Quast: Are scale funds making the marketplace irrational? You're listening to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. Welcome to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. I'm Jon Quast, and I'm joined contiguous by Foolish contributors Matt Frankel and Rachel Warren. Before you dive into today's episode, bash yourself a favor. Head implicit to news.fool.com and motion up for Breakfast News. It's a escaped regular email from The Motley Fool, landing successful your inbox by 7:30 AM each morning, packed with the stories semipermanent investors really privation to cognize about.

We're going to tackle immoderate topics contiguous connected today's show. We person really 2 topics astir ETFs from our mailbag. Something similar that you wouldn't needfully find successful Breakfast News, but you mightiness find thing successful meal News akin to the communicative we're starring with here, and that is the taxable that we person regarding SK Hynix. Now, SK Hynix is simply a machine representation institution based successful South Korea, and it's already publically traded determination successful South Korea. But arsenic aboriginal arsenic this week, it does program to database immoderate American depository shares present successful the U.S. oregon ADR. It's going to commercialized nether the ticker awesome SKHY, and it's targeting to merchantability astir 178 cardinal ADR shares. That volition hopefully rise astir $28 billion. It needs immoderate wealth to physique caller factories and furnish them with chipmaking equipment. Now, 1 could accidental with AI, GPUs aren't holding thing back. It's the machine memory, uncovering specifically that high-bandwidth memory. That is what these companies request close now. That is what we are not making capable of. My archetypal question present to you, Rachel, is what precisely is high-bandwidth memory, and who makes it?