{"id":616857,"date":"2026-05-01T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616857\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:59:20","slug":"meet-the-artificial-intelligence-ai-infrastructure-stock-that-has-crushed-nvidia-and-broadcom-with-a-270-jump-it-can-still-fly-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616857\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infrastructure Stock That Has Crushed Nvidia and Broadcom With a 270% Jump. It Can Still Fly Higher."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia and Broadcom are among the top players in the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure ecosystem, designing chips that handle critical workloads related to model training and inference in data centers.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, shares of both companies have jumped impressively over the past year. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/how-to-invest\/stocks\/nvidia-stock-forecast\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia stock<\/a> has shot up 95% over this period, Broadcom has clocked stronger gains of 117%. However, both AI stalwarts have been comprehensively beaten by another company that&#8217;s benefiting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/research\/ai-companies-spending-on-data-centers\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the huge investments in AI data centers<\/a>: Vertiv (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/quote\/nyse\/vrt\/\" class=\"font-bold hover:underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VRT<\/a> +7.67%).<\/p>\n<p>Shares of the company, which sells critical digital infrastructure solutions such as power management, thermal management, and server racks and enclosures used in data centers, have jumped by a whopping 270% over the past year. The increase of almost 4x in Vertiv&#8217;s stock price has been driven by improving growth rates and solid prospects.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Vertiv&#8217;s rally is likely far from over. Its latest results suggest the company&#8217;s growth rate should continue accelerating, translating into more upside for investors. Let&#8217;s see why this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/market-sectors\/information-technology\/ai-stocks\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI stock<\/a> hasn&#8217;t run out of steam yet.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vertiv company name is written in white on a blue background.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"880\" height=\"587\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto max-w-full rounded object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Image source: The Motley Fool.<\/p>\n<p>Vertiv&#8217;s solutions are in solid demand from AI data centers<\/p>\n<p>AI data centers require much more electricity to run than traditional data centers, driven by the powerful chips they house to handle training and inference workloads. These chips also generate a lot of heat. Vertiv&#8217;s products allow AI data centers to run smoothly. It offers uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, liquid-cooling solutions, thermal control and monitoring, and server racks, among other solutions.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vertiv Stock Quote\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full flex-none object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777622359_742_.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Change<\/p>\n<p>(7.67%) $23.49<\/p>\n<p>Current Price<\/p>\n<p>$329.67<\/p>\n<p>Key Data Points<\/p>\n<p>Market Cap<\/p>\n<p>$126B<\/p>\n<p>Day&#8217;s Range<\/p>\n<p>$312.38 &#8211; $329.91<\/p>\n<p>52wk Range<\/p>\n<p>$91.81 &#8211; $330.30<\/p>\n<p>Volume<\/p>\n<p>260K<\/p>\n<p>Avg Vol<\/p>\n<p>8M<\/p>\n<p>Gross Margin<\/p>\n<p>35.00%<\/p>\n<p>Dividend Yield<\/p>\n<p>0.06%<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Vertiv is a part of the Nvidia Partner Network, collaborating with the chip giant to develop solutions that will help reduce heat generation in Nvidia&#8217;s AI factories. Vertiv also claims that its modular prefabricated solutions can help reduce the deployment times of AI data centers by up to 50% compared to traditional solutions.<\/p>\n<p>So, it is easy to see why customers have been flocking toward the company&#8217;s offerings. The company released its first-quarter results on April 22. Revenue increased 30% year over year to $2.65 billion, while adjusted earnings increased by an even more impressive 83%. The numbers clearly show that Vertiv isn&#8217;t just experiencing healthy product demand but is also seeing solid margin improvement, driven by improved pricing and productivity gains.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Vertiv raised its full-year guidance. It now expects to deliver a 51% increase in adjusted earnings per share in 2026 to $6.35 per share. It was earlier anticipating $6.02 in earnings per share at the midpoint. The revenue guidance has also been raised to $13.75 billion, a 34% increase over the prior year.<\/p>\n<p>The improved guidance explains why analysts are now expecting a larger earnings jump going forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/VRT\/chart\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img alt=\"VRT EPS Estimates for Current Fiscal Year Chart\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto max-w-full rounded object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:720px\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3742e36325827413cc2598320c34496c.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/VRT\/eps_est_0y\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">VRT EPS Estimates for Current Fiscal Year<\/a> data by <a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YCharts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But is Vertiv stock worth buying anymore?<\/p>\n<p>Investors may be wondering whether it makes sense to invest in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/market-sectors\/information-technology\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tech stock<\/a> after its multibagger gains over the past year. However, the strong growth potential of the AI data center market suggests that the company may be at the beginning of a terrific growth curve.<\/p>\n<p>The data center cooling market, for instance, is anticipated to grow by almost 5x between 2025 and 2033, generating $128 billion in revenue in 2033. Meanwhile, demand for data center power solutions could increase from $23 billion last year to $72 billion in 2033 at a compound annual growth rate of almost 16%.<\/p>\n<p>Vertiv is growing faster than these markets, suggesting it may be capturing a larger share of this space. As a result, Vertiv can sustain the eye-popping earnings growth it is clocking, making this an ideal bet for investors looking to buy a growth stock.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Vertiv is trading at an expensive 52 times forward price-to-earnings (P\/E) ratio, but it can justify that valuation by outperforming consensus estimates and maintaining solid earnings growth. Assuming its earnings indeed jump to $10.78 per share in 2028 (as seen in the chart) and it trades at 43 times earnings (in line with the U.S. tech sector&#8217;s average earnings multiple, which is lower than its forward P\/E), the stock could jump to $463.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a potential jump of 44% from current levels, which means that it isn&#8217;t too late for investors to buy this high-flying stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia and Broadcom are among the top players in the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure ecosystem, designing chips that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-616857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}