Money & Megatrends
November 25, 2025
By Brian Hunt
Inside today’s issue:
- The selloff in the inevitable robotics megatrend presents a buying opportunity. Are you invested?
- The health care megatrend continues to generate wealth and winners. Are you benefiting?
- Can the economy be all that bad? Two major cogs in the economic machine soar to new highs.
The Selloff in the Inevitable Robotics Megatrend Presents a Buying Opportunity. Are You Invested?
If you missed your chance to take a position in the robotics megatrend, give thanks this weekend. The market is giving you another good entry point.
Over the past 18 months, I’ve urged friends and colleagues to become heavily involved in the robotics megatrend. It is one of the biggest financial opportunities of our lives.
At Money & Megatrends, we occasionally trade and track trends that last less than 12 months. The robotics megatrend will last more than 12 years.
It is a massive, multifaceted trend that will transform the world. It will yield greater factory automation, surgical robots, autonomous cars, autonomous air taxis, humanoid worker robots, and much more. Robotics investment is expected to increase by at least 15% annually through the rest of this decade. Within five years, Amazon will utilize more robots than employees.
Like many themes, robotics experienced a significant rally following the April tariff tantrum lows, but has sold off heavily over the past month. I believe this is a good entry point for a long-term robotics investment.
Like most long-term megatrends, this one has a variety of investing angles. Compelling individual companies include Kratos Defense (KTOS, drones), Tesla (TSLA, autonomous cars, humanoids), Fanuc (FANUY, factory robots), Ambarella (AMBA, machine vision), and Symbotic (SYM, factory robots).
ETF-focused investors can consider the Global Robotics ETF (ROBO), the Global X Robotics & AI ETF (BOTZ), and the ARK Autonomous Technologies & Robotics ETF (ARKQ).
The 1-year chart of the ARK fund shows how this theme is in a long-term uptrend… but has recently suffered a short-term selloff. I see this as a buying opportunity in an inevitable megatrend.
Robotics: A short-term selloff in the context of a long-term uptrend
The Health Care Megatrend Continues to Generate Wealth and Winners. Are You Benefiting?
Another day, another dollar for health care investors. Today, the market’s strongest megatrend generated another round of new highs.
On October 1st, I sent a note to colleagues highlighting the upside breakout in health care stocks and said it was time to be bullish. The market confirmed the fundamental case, which is powered by the giant Boomer generation entering the stage of life where spending on health care and longevity skyrockets.
Since that note, health care has experienced a near-constant series of new highs, strong earnings reports, and extraordinary market leadership. This trend has been one heck of a friend.
Today, health care’s market leadership yielded new highs in drug makers Eli Lilly (LLY), AstraZeneca (AZN), and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)… mega hospital operator HCA Holdings (HCA)… senior living home operator Welltower (WELL)… health care analytics firm IQVIA (IQV)… drug distributors Cardinal Health (CAH) and Cencora (COR)… plus more than two dozen smaller biotech firms.
Importantly, health care blue chip Medtronic (MDT) also hit a new 1-year high today. Medtronic is America’s largest medical device maker by revenue. It’s a massive player in the cardiovascular health and surgical tools industries.
Trends tend to persist, and winning companies tend to keep winning… which is why I expect the health care uptrend to continue.
Medtronic powers to a new 1-year high
Can the Economy Be All That Bad? Two Major Cogs in the Economic Machine Soar to New Highs
Since the current bull market began in 2023, a host of bearish financial gurus have issued a stream of apocalyptic stock market forecasts.
Anyone who listened to the “prophets of the apocalypse” and avoided stocks has missed a historic wave of wealth creation. The doomers may sound clever and are often well-meaning, but they consistently prove to be wrong. Following their advice has proven to be very costly in terms of opportunity missed.
Over the past year, I’ve consistently cited market moves that have made hash out of the bears’ apocalyptic warnings. There are the soaring market values of big banks, heavy equipment maker Caterpillar, U.S. manufacturing stocks, and now ArcelorMittal (MT) and Prologis (PLD). Both of these important companies reached new 1-year highs today.
ArcelorMittal is the world’s largest publicly traded steelmaker. It makes a wide variety of raw materials used in cars, trucks, construction equipment, buildings, and infrastructure. Today, MT shares reached a new high. The stock is up 71% year-to-date.
Prologis is America’s largest warehouse/distribution center operator. It counts Home Depot, Amazon, and FedEx as large customers. A significant portion of the things we buy make a pit stop in a Prologis facility.
ArcelorMittal and Prologis are economically sensitive stocks. If the economy is strong or at least “getting by,” these kinds of companies tend to do well. If the economy is sputtering, the market value of these companies goes down.
Of course, the current bull market and economic expansion will end someday. They all do. That’s just life. But for now, the trend is still up, and the bears are wrong.
It’s a bull market in steel!
Market Notes
- The technology stock uptrend continues to generate winners: Technology giants Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) reached new all-time highs today.
- High-horsepower engine maker Cummins (CMI) reached a new all-time high today.
- High-end cruise line operator Viking Holdings (VIK) reached a new high today. The high-end consumer continues to spend.
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