Not so great for the rest of the economy. Preberg, what do you got?
I think you guys will remember last November, I predicted energy and defense to be the best performing stocks for this year. Sacks is right.
I think defense is up 40%. So I kind of went with the bigger oil and gas companies are up across the board about 47% in terms of equity value in the public markets a year to date, compared to the S&P being down about 20%.
So over the short term, I would argue oil and gas companies. But I think that over the long term, there were a couple of big breakthrough moments that I would give kind of the winner in business that will benefit over the long term to open AI and to fusion startups.
And we'll talk more about why for those two, obviously later when we get to the biggest winner in tech and science.
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