Clean Energy
Q3 2025
- The Energy metatheme gained +22.32% QoQ in Q3 2025, reaching a new three-year high and moving firmly above the 50- and 200-day moving averages.
- Performance was broad-based with Global Clean Energy Transition ESG (+42.40%), Global Nuclear Innovators (+39.38%), Hydrogen Economy (+31.29%), and Solar Energy (+29.04%) leading the theme.
- Uranium-adjacent names were standout performers: Bloom Energy (+253.6%), Energy Fuels (+167.0%), and Sunrun (+111.4%).
- The DOE’s HALEU procurement program, the UK’s next-gen nuclear funding, and new hyperscale power-purchase agreements underscored strengthening demand for carbon-free baseload energy.
- Solar module costs continued to decline while wind-project financing conditions stabilized, supporting broad momentum across clean-energy segments.
- Cash-flow leaders such as TechnipFMC and Cameco reported strong free-cash-flow margins alongside improving income-statement quality.
- Lower leverage across balance sheets suggests capacity for reinvestment and future dividend growth within the group.
- Positive earnings-estimate revisions across the nuclear and uranium complex signaled increasing investor confidence in forward earnings power.
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Consumer Trends
Q3 2025
- The Consumer Trends metatheme gained +4.40% QoQ in Q3 2025, reclaiming its 200-day moving average and extending the uptrend from 2023 lows.
- Digital leisure led performance: Metaverse & eGames (+12.85%), Video Gaming & eSports (+11.31%), and Online Gambling (+8.41%).
- US Profitable Consumer Discretionary advanced +7.46%, while E-Commerce US Leaders (-3.95%) and Future of Food (-6.62%) underperformed.
- Consumer spending continued to favor value-driven entertainment and travel-adjacent categories as real wage growth stabilized.
- Gaming and streaming platforms saw improved user monetization, while discretionary e-commerce trends remained uneven.
- Booking Holdings, MercadoLibre, and Pegasystems stood out for strong free-cash-flow conversion and margin durability.
- Valuations for profitable consumer-tech names remain close to mid-cycle norms, indicating balanced sentiment and room for selective upside.
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Financials 2.0
Q3 2025
- The Financials 2.0 metatheme gained +11.27% QoQ, breaking above its 200-day moving average and reaching its strongest level since late 2021.
- Digital Assets Equity led the theme (+31.72%), followed by E-Brokers & Digital Capital Markets (+12.50%) and Alternative Asset Managers (+4.43%), while Fintech declined (-3.26%).
- The launch of the first U.S. Ether-staking ETFs, alongside continued inflows into Bitcoin funds, supported revenue growth across exchanges.
- With inflation easing and a potential Fed pivot approaching, rate-sensitive fintechs experienced modest multiple expansion.
- High operating-cash-flow exchange and broker models remained top performers on fundamentals, with capital-light payment processors also strong on FCF yield and earnings quality.
- Improving return on equity and moderating leverage across the group point to rising capital efficiency.
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Healthcare innovation
Q3 2025
- Healthcare Innovation gained +2.80% QoQ in Q3 2025, rebounding from mid-year lows but still consolidating just below its 200-day moving average.
- Gene-editing and RNA-therapy names led performance, including Arrowhead (+118.3%), Intellia (+84.1%), Ionis (+65.6%), and Medpace (+63.8%).
- The first commercial rollouts of CRISPR-based therapies drove renewed investor interest in advanced genetic medicine.
- Venture capital activity showed early signs of recovery, with funding favoring late-stage or revenue-generating pipelines.
- Pro Medicus, Doximity, Sectra, and Veeva delivered strong free-cash-flow margins and profitability.
- Medpace continued to excel on CRO-driven earnings momentum.
- Margins across digital health and diagnostics remained resilient, supported by pricing power and disciplined operating costs.
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Materials
Q3 2025
- The Materials metatheme surged +28.02% QoQ, breaking out well above its 200-day moving average.
- Precious-metal and energy-transition segments led performance, including Rare Earth & Strategic Metals (+61.17%), Junior Gold Miners (+46.18%), Global Gold Miners (+46.11%), and Clean Tech Metals (+32.95%).
- Gold reached new nominal highs as central-bank purchases remained strong and real yields declined.
- Investor attention expanded to battery-metal assets, supported by renewed M&A speculation and industrial-policy incentives for domestic supply chains.
- Orla Mining and Lundin Gold led on free-cash-flow quality, with ~90% and ~53% FCF margins respectively.
- Australian mid-tier miners also screened well on cash generation and balance-sheet quality.
- Double-digit aggregate FCF growth across the theme reflected improving capital discipline and ongoing leverage reduction.
Materials Metatheme Indexes
Nextgen Hardware & Communications
Q3 2025
- The Semiconductors & AI Infrastructure theme reached a fresh all-time high and remained firmly above its 50- and 200-day moving averages.
- US Fabless Semis (+22.30%) and Quantum Leaders (+17.98%) led performance, with support from Connective Technologies (+16.89%).
- Broader AI-infrastructure demand continued to strengthen across the supply chain as cloud-capex expansion boosted networking, optical-component, and test-equipment providers.
- InterDigital, NVIDIA, Arista Networks, and Lam Research remained standouts for strong free-cash-flow efficiency and margin durability.
- Cash-conversion metrics sit at multi-year highs, underscoring superior capital efficiency relative to legacy hardware peers.
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Nextgen Software
Q3 2025
- The Next Gen Software metatheme rose +9.50% QoQ, clearing its 50-day moving average and nearing prior 2023 highs.
- Artificial Intelligence (+15.61%) and Big Data & AI (+6.71%) led performance, with Digital Advertising (+5.10%) also contributing.
- AI feature rollout accelerated across enterprise platforms, and usage-based pricing strategies supported stronger revenue visibility.
- Quantum-computing names such as Rigetti saw renewed investor momentum.
- AppLovin, Palantir, Adobe, ServiceNow, and Autodesk demonstrated strong free-cash-flow margins and balance-sheet quality.
- Positive earnings-estimate revisions across the group marked the first sustained turn since 2022, reflecting improving operating leverage as AI monetization ramps.
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Regional Technology
Q3 2025
- Regional Technology gained +9.87% QoQ, reversing a multi-quarter downtrend and reclaiming both its 50- and 200-day moving averages.
- Asia-tech and China Internet names led the rebound, with notable performances from Hua Hong (+132.5%), East Buy (+120.9%), Ping An Healthcare (+110.6%), and Alibaba (+57.6%).
- Beijing’s pro-growth policy stance and continued buybacks by large-cap internet platforms supported a shift in sentiment.
- Israeli tech stabilized as execution improved across key cybersecurity and mobility segments.
- TSMC, Trip.com, Gen Digital, and Cellebrite delivered strong free-cash-flow performance, demonstrating leadership across both platform and hardware models.
- Improving earnings-quality metrics reflected renewed operational efficiency after multiple years of cost restructuring.
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Thematic Industrials & Infrastructure
Q3 2025
- The Industrials & Infrastructure metatheme rose +10.68% QoQ, extending its move above the 200-day moving average and reaching a new year-to-date high.
- US AI & Power Infrastructure (+22.96%), Space Industry (+22.79%), and Defense (+15.46%) led performance.
- Surging AI-power demand supported renewed grid and transmission investment.
- Defense order backlogs remained strong, with improved procurement visibility across aerospace and missile programs.
- Cellebrite, Napco Security, Sterling Infrastructure, and Kongsberg Gruppen delivered strong free-cash-flow growth and margin durability.
- Vistra continued to outperform on profitability and capital returns.
- The theme’s aggregate earnings yield sits above its three-year average, signaling valuation support relative to the broader market.
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Thematic REITs
Q3 2025
- REITs 2.0 gained +3.32% QoQ, holding above its 50-day moving average but still facing resistance near the 200-day.
- Data Center & Logistics Real Estate led the advance (+6.35%), with standout contributions from Applied Digital (+127.8%) and VNET (+49.7%).
- AI-driven hyperscale demand kept data-center leasing strong, helping offset ongoing softness in residential and office categories.
- Declining long-term yields provided modest valuation support across the sector.
- CareTrust, Vornado, and Montea ranked highly on free-cash-flow margins and payout stability, while Prologis sustained strong balance-sheet leverage metrics.
- Sequential improvement in aggregate FFO growth reinforced cash-flow stability despite rate-market volatility.