{"id":239454,"date":"2026-07-01T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/down-30-is-this-artificial-intelligence-ai-stock-a-screaming-buy\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T00:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:05:24","slug":"down-30-is-this-artificial-intelligence-ai-stock-a-screaming-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/down-30-is-this-artificial-intelligence-ai-stock-a-screaming-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Down 30%, Is this Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock a Screaming Buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/AXON\/pressreleases\/3089375\/down-30-is-this-artificial-intelligence-ai-stock-a-screaming-buy\/\">Down 30%, Is this Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock a Screaming Buy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/AXON\/pressreleases\/3089375\/down-30-is-this-artificial-intelligence-ai-stock-a-screaming-buy\/\">https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/AXON\/pressreleases\/3089375\/down-30-is-this-artificial-intelligence-ai-stock-a-screaming-buy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 21:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theglobeandmail.com\">www.theglobeandmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Soaring Semiconductor Stocks<\/strong>: In 2026, semiconductor stocks have seen significant growth, boosted by the AI infrastructure build-out and shortages in memory chips, with the iShares Semiconductor ETF doubling in value.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Software Stocks Underperform<\/strong>: AI stocks focusing on software have lagged, with the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF down 16%, underperforming the S&amp;P 500.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Axon Enterprise&#8217;s Performance<\/strong>: Once a heavyweight in the market, Axon Enterprise, known for law enforcement technologies like TASERs and body cameras, has struggled in recent years with its stock falling by 30% from its August 2025 peak.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Axon&#8217;s AI and Innovative Growth<\/strong>: Despite its struggles, Axon has shown strong growth driven by its software and AI products. Revenue from AI products surged over 700% and it has expanded into drones through its acquisition of Dendrone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Positive Catalysts for Axon<\/strong>: The stock recently climbed after President Trump reportedly bought between $1 million and $5 million worth of Axon shares, along with significant federal contract requests.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Considerations for Axon Investment<\/strong>: Despite Axon&#8217;s strong performance and potential, The Motley Fool&#8217;s Stock Advisor analysts do not currently recommend it and instead suggest investing in other stocks with better growth possibilities, though Axon remains potentially attractive.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down 30%, Is this Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock a Screaming Buy? https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/AXON\/pressreleases\/3089375\/down-30-is-this-artificial-intelligence-ai-stock-a-screaming-buy\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-01&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/barchart-news-media-prod.aws.barchart.com\/FC\/13435ca7b319f9a62d8568261c340d75\/%3Furl%3Dhttps%253a%252f%252fg.foolcdn.com%252feditorial%252fimages%252f876890%252faxon_2023_axonbody4_confidential_january_lafayette_in_productshoot_062.jpg%26amp%3Bw%3D700","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-239454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239456,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239454\/revisions\/239456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}