Ian King’s Stock Picks EXPOSED [Updated 2024]

His "AI Energy" Pitch & "AI Booster" Stock

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "AI Energy"
• Name of "Special" Report: "AI Energy — The $40 Trillion Disruptor Bringing Star Power to Earth!"
• Promoted Under: Strategic Fortunes

In this teaser from Mr. King, we are told that there is a new cheap energy source that could revolutionize the world. He calls it "AI Energy".

King talks about the 6 major energy sources we use at the moment, being oil, coal, natural gas, renewables, hydroelectric, and nuclear... and claims that this new energy source sould replace them all.

We later find out that this "AI Energy" he's refering to is actually fusion energy, which is a process that occurs in our sun and stars and happens when two nuclei combine... basically.

So, we can thank fusion for the sun's light and warmth that we get here on Earth.

Fusion energy is so powerful that King tells us a small 1-liter bottle of fused atoms can produce the same amount of energy as 29,000 barrels of oil.

How can we produce such energy here on Earth?

Well, this is where King's investment opportunity lies. He tells us how technology capable of handling insanely large amounts of mathematical computations is needed to create fusion... which is now possible with AI-powered supercomputers... hence his term "AI Energy".

Later in the pitch, he starts throwing out the term "AI Boosters" and what he's referring to here is Extreme Performance Yield Computing.

It is an AI booster company that he's teasing us with. 

Here's what we know:

• The firm holds 11,000 patents and their tech has become mission critical for the biggest fusion energy projects.
• Its shares currently trade for around $5.
• It has an innovative team of engineers who have worked at firms like Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Micron to name a few.

With these clues, we think his pick here is very likely Xperi Inc. (NYSE: XPER), which doesn't match up perfectly with what he gives us but is still likely the one.

>> Full write-up of this "AI Energy" pitch and "AI Booster" company here

“America’s New Chip-Making Boom” Stocks

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "The $1.4 Trillion Secret of Green Chapel Road"
• Name of "Special" Report: "3 Stocks to Profit From America’s New Chip-Making Boom"
• Promoted Under: Extreme Fortunes

As with the previous teaser covered on this list, King is teasing some more microchip stocks here again.

He talks about some "$1.4 trillion secret of Green Chapel Road" and what he's referring to here is the $250 billion that the US government is using to help bring chip manufacturing to the US and how the chip manufacturing industry is expected to hit $1.4 trillion by 2030.

The area around Green Chapel Road is prime territory for this manufacturing.

Also as mentioned in the previous teaser, this all has to do with the Chips Act that the US government passed. This is the initiative sending the $250 billion into bringing chip manufacturing back to US soil.

We already know how important microchips are for for vehicles, phones, etc. so I'll skip going into any detail here and get straight to the point.

King teases us with "3 Stocks to Profit From America’s New Chip-Making Boom" and we've been able to expose all 3.

Boom Stock #1:

• it's in the electric cars corner of the chip market
• its nex-gen gallium nitride chips can conduct electricity 1,000x faster than the traditional silicon chips
• it has a $1.75 billion market cap

This is the gallium nitride semiconductor manufacturer Navitas Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: NVTS).

Boom Stock #2:

• designs and produces iron-flow batteries for energy storage applications
• entire supply chain is in the US
• has a market cap of just under $300 million

His pick here is the long-duration iron-flow battery manufacturer ESS Tech, Inc. (NYSE: GWH).

Boom Stock #3:

• it has over 40 patents in the area of chip cleaning, electropolishing, and plating
• it's generating around $400 million in revenue
• its market cap is just under $800 million

We think this one matches up well with ACM Research Inc. (Nasdaq: ACMR).

>> Full write-up of these  "3 Stocks to Profit From America’s New Chip-Making Boom" here

His "Fourth Convergence" Microchip Stock

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "The Fourth Convergence"
• Name of "Special" Report: "The Fourth Convergence: America’s Next 1,000% Wave"
• Promoted Under: Extreme Fortunes

Here, we are told that this is a once-in-a-decade phenomenon where three events, all that seem to be unrelated, merge and lead to an economic boom... and this one has supposedly been in the making for 70 years.

According to King, "the greatest fortunes in U.S. history could be minted for those who make the right moves today."

As you already know by how I've listed this teaser here, it's all about microchips... something we've heard plenty about with one of the more recent teasers in this area being Karim Rahemtulla's pitch for 2-Nanometer chips.

King talks about how the US is making moves to compete with China for microchip manufacturing and trying to bring jobs of this kind back to our own home turf.

We are told that past convergences of 1) government support, 2) private equity, and 3) innovation have led to smart investors seeing gains of up to 5,000% in just 5 years. This is what King thinks investors could be looking at again here today.

The U.S. government, via the CHIPS and Science Act, has already planned to invest $280 billion in the advancement of semiconductors. Private equity is indeed flowing into this industry, which the CHIPS Act certainly helped with - an article on how "Semiconductors ripe for private equity after CHIPS Act" here. Lastly, the innovation is there with the Ion implantation that is being worked on to improve performance.

With China's semiconductor chip manufacturing capacity growing by a lot over recent years and then being hit with a chip ban from the US, the tensions in this area are being strained and the US government is taking this race to stay at the front of semiconductor chip tech very seriously.

All this put together is why Ian King is so bullish on this one company... a US company by the way.

Some of the clues he gives us are that:

• It launched the first single-wafer implanter
• It has a team of some former executives from Intel, Raytheon, GE, and even chip giant ASML
• It has big investors such as BlackRock, State Street Corp., and billionaire David Booth from Dimensional Fund Advisors.

With this information, we've narrowed his pick down to being Axcelis Technologies, the company headquartered in Massachusetts, USA that helps semiconductor manufacturers with their ion implant technology.

>> Full review of his "fourth convergence" microchip stock here

The "Top 3 SPACs to Buy Now" 

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "Ian King's Private SPAC Portfolio"
• Name of "Special" Report: "Ian King’s Top 3 SPACs to Buy Now"
• Promoted Under: New Era Fortunes

SPACs, or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, have been all the rage lately with Jeff Brown teasing his "Pre-IPO Codes" SPAC opportunity as of late along with others. Mr. Ian King claims to have a "private SPAC portfolio" with his "Top 3 SPACs to Buy Now."

While the number of traditional IPOs has declined in recent years, the number of SPACs has seen a sharp increase of more than 2,000% since 2015, and investors in these opportunities have had some very large wins.

King tells us about how DermTech went public through a SPAC and then went up 1,500% in just 18 months along with Skillz going up 218% in just three months.

Why are SPACs so popular and why can investing in such be so rewarding?

Well, because they cut out the middle man and give the public - us - a way to invest indirectly in companies before they go public.

SPACs are publicly traded corporations that are formed just to acquire or merge with an existing public company. They have no real business operations. 

What we know about the 3 SPACs that King is teasing here, unfortunately, is just about nothing.

He tells us that:

• each has proven leadership
• each is targeting a private company with disruptive technology
• and that most will have a market cap of less than $2 billion

... but that's it.

He doesn't give us any good clues here and you'd have to subscribe to his New Era Fortunes service here to find out.

***If you are a subscriber and know what his picks are, please let us know so we can update this post!***

>> Read more on these "Top 3 SPACs to Buy Now" here

His "Next Gen Coin" Crypto Pick

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "Bitcoin Just Minted... 100,000 Millionaires"
• Name of "Special" Report: "The Next Gen Coin: The Profit Opportunity of a Lifetime"
• Promoted Under: Strategic Fortunes

This presentation starts out stating that Bitcoin has already minted 100,000 millionaires but that there is some other "next gen coin" that could be 20x bigger.

20x bigger than Bitcoin? They have my attention.

Mark Cuban and Elon Musk are supposedly piling money into this coin, yet less than 1% of the world's population even knows it exists.

King tells us that if we get in now, we could see gains of 7,200% by the end of the decade.

He's calling this "the greatest investment opportunity in history".

Ian talks about how "2.0 is Bigger than 1.0" and gives examples of how Facebook overtook Myspace, how Google put AltaVista in a grave, and how he thinks that Bitcoin, the 1.0 version of crypto as he calls it, is going to be overtaken by this 2.0 version he's teasing... this "next gen coin".

We're told that this "next gen coin" can currently process about 30 transactions per second but with its coming upgrade it will be able to handle 100,000 transactions per second... a lot more than even Visa or Mastercard can handle.

In the future, King thinks that this "next gen coin" will be at the center of every swipe of our credit cards, every time we buy a stock, send money to a friend, etc.

Some more clues:

• He tells us that UBS, JPMorgan and Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest, and more are all getting into this coin.
• He says that there is a big "upgrade date" coming up and we already know about the potential transaction speed improvement mentioned with this upgrade
• And, we're also told that we can get started with just $20

While King is teasing a crypto investment opportunity here, he isn't actually telling us to invest in a cryptocurrency directly. Instead, we think it's pretty obvious he's teasing Ethereum here with its big update coming up, but he's teasing the Grayscale Ethereum Trust (OTC: ETHE) as a way to get in on this opportunity.

Jason Williams is calling Solana (SOL) the "Ethereum Killer", but from the looks of things Ethereum still dominates and will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

>> Full write-up of this "next gen coin" here

That "Infinergy" Stock

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "Infinergy: This Unstoppable Technology Could Potentially Power the Earth for the Next 5 Billion Years."
• Name of "Special" Report: "Infinergy: Ride the $16 Trillion Revolution"
• Promoted Under: Strategic Fortunes

We're told that this new energy source "could potentially power the earth for the next 5 billion years."

If true, this is obviously an incredible investment opportunity we find here. But, you probably know by now to take what King says with a grain of salt.

The key word in the quote from King above is "potentially"... which means the statement doesn't really say much.

I could "potentially" become a billionaire overnight with some strange glitch in my bank account... potentially.

Anyway. King presents what appears to be "ordinary, useless crystals" and says that these are the key to the energy source that is "virtually infinite", thanks to a Nobel prize-winning discovery.

The investment opportunity: some Silicon Valley-based company that's pioneering this new tech.

What King is talking about here is good old solar power, something we've certainly heard a lot about in the investment world. Remember  Ted Bauman's "Solar On Demand" pitch or that "Solar Window" teaser from Jeff Siegel? 

However, he's more specifically focusing on the opportunity to invest in the new solar power tech that uses 99.9999999% pure silicon - 9N silicon - which can lead to big increases in solar panel function.

King tells us that 400% more productive solar panels are possible with this high-quality grade of silicon.

With this said, it's obvious how good of an investment opportunity this could be.

The company King is teasing here is said to:

• have a market cap of just 1/25th that of BP, 1/50th that of Shell, and a measly 1/100th that of Exxon
• provide homeowners with helpful solar energy solutions
• BlackRock, JPMorgan, Nuveen Asset Management, and Goldman Sachs are all invested in it

And with this said, we've identified his pick as being SunPower Corporation (SPWR), the Silicon Valled-based solar product company that matches with King's 1/50th size of Shell's market cap clue as well as others.

>> Read our full write-up of this "infinergy" stock here

Electric Vehicle Neodymium Stock

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "This Nevada-Based Company Holds the Key to the Electric Vehicle Revolution" & "This Little-Known Company is at the Center of the EV Revolution"
• Name of "Special" Report: "The One Company Critical to the 1,150% EV Revolution"
• Promoted Under: Strategic Fortunes

With the pick that King has here, he tells us that 10xing our money is possible... by 2030.

Right off the bat, we know it has something to do with EVs, which we are very familiar with here at GBR having already reviewed Fessler's EV stocks and others such as Mizrahi's "forever battery" pick.

In this teaser, King is calling it "the technology of the decade" and tells us that the Nevada-based company leading the way holds the key to this technological revolution.

There are two variations of the teaser that I've come across...

It's all about EV technology and I don't think much needs said about this trend. According to Torque News, by 2025 20% of all cars sold worldwide will be EVs... with higher percentages in more developed countries.

While it may not be as economical as it seems, with Biden's infrastructure plan including $174 billion in subsidies for EVs and EV infrastructure, the trend seems to be unstoppable at this point and so why not capitalize on the opportunity before us?

King shows us some little some little rectangular metal-looking thing and tells us that it's paramount to the success of EVs... which we later learn is the neodymium magnet.

Neodymium magnets are used in EV engines and King tells us that the company he's teasing is the only one in the Western Hemisphere that supplies it.

Supposedly:

• It's sitting on more than $1 billion in cash
• Bank of New York Mellon owns 2 million shares of it
• It just signed a deal with the DOD

So what is this company that King thinks could surge 10x by 2030? 

We've landed upon MP Materials Corp. (NYSE: MP) being his pick here, which has neodymium processing facilities that will hopefully help the US take some of the market back from China, which dominates the rare earths space.

>> Full "neodymium company" stock review here

That "Digitarium" Stock 

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "Digitarium"
• Name of "Special" Report: "The Next Google: The Tiny Company Powering the 5,000% Big Data Mega Trend"
• Promoted Under: Strategic Fortunes

Digitarium he calls it. Mr. Ian King tells us that this technology will create 11 million jobs and $3 trillion in wealth... and could even save 10 million lives.

And, of course, he tells us that it could make investors that get in now filthy stinkin' rich.

In the presentation, he shows us a small quarter-sized clear disk with what appears to be a circular piece of metal in the center a bit smaller than a dime.

He tells us that whatever company dominates this tech will control the economy... and of course, he claims to already know the company dominating the tech... which is what he's teasing.

The tech he's teasing here is, once again, the data refining that I've already gone over when talking about his "Master Technology" teaser listed below.

Data refining is important. A report from 2018 estimates that up to 73% of collected data goes unused. 

The company King is teasing helps companies organize and use data more efficiently... and what we know about this company is that:

• it has "600-plus patents"
• it's based in California
• its "leadership hails from top tech firms like Cisco, Amazon, Microsoft, Autodesk, Twitter and more"

With these clues and the fact that this company is in the business of data refining, we've come to the conclusion that King is once again teasing Slunk (SPLK) here... the same company as his "Master Technology" company.

>> Full "digitarium" stock review here

King's "MaaS" Stock 

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "The Biggest Electric Vehicle Story of 2021 is 'MaaS'"
• Name of "Special" Report: "Mobility as a Service: A $1.8 Trillion Revolution"
• Promoted Under: Automatic Fortunes

In this one, King seems to have been inspired by Whitney Tilson's "TaaS" teaser. I guess the marketing strategy using an acronym like this fared well for him. 

Here we have King telling us that "MaaS" is going to be the biggest EV story of 2021.

Getting to the point here... what the heck is "MaaS"?

Well, it's an acronym that the Banyan Hill team likely made up as a way to make the pitch more intriguing and it stands for "Mobility as a Service".

He thinks we're looking at "the biggest change to transportation in the last 135 years" here and that, of course, investors that get in now will be handsomely rewarded.

This all has to do with advancements in EVs, self-driving cars, and lightning-fast semiconductors.

In a nutshell, King is envisioning a future where autonomous EVs drive people around, some without even having manual controls, and with this people get around faster and more efficiently.

We already have Google's Waymo autonomous vehicles out on the road moving people around in certain areas and with Hyundai announcing its new EV will be a self-driving taxi in a partnership with Lyft along with other big automobile manufacturers moving in this direction, King's envisioned future might come true in a short time.

We all know how important laser technology is for autonomous vehicles. This tech works as the eyes of the car and the company King is teasing here supposedly:

• "already has 55 LiDAR technology patents"
• has contracts with Uber, Volkswagen and Toyota
• is a "little known $3.8 billion innovative company"
• has Waymo using its tech as well as GM
• trades at under $30 a share

These clues have brought us to the conclusion that Velodyne Lidar (VLDRW) is what's being teased here - the San Jose, CA-based lidar company that creates a variety of different laser sensors and software to go with them.

>> Full review of this MaaS stock

His No. 1 Stock (Fintech)

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "The End of the Dow"
• Name of "Special" Report: N/A
• Promoted Under: N/A

Ian King is telling us here that some new technology will disrupt the entire market and will cause 90% of the Dow companies to be replaced by small companies and startups. 

He's calling it "The End of the Dow" and tells us that COVID has acted as a catalyst to propel this new technology forward.

The exciting part... he thinks we could "see profits of up to 10,000% in less than 10 years"... if we buy into his suggested stock now, of course.

So, what is he teasing here?

Well, unfortunately, this is pretty much a re-hashed teaser that's been updated. He's teasing the same opportunity as in his "rebound 2020" teaser that I've already covered below. 

It all has to do with a company that's in the fintech space that helps companies process financial transactions, pay employees, send invoices, pay taxes, etc.

As mentioned, King tells us how the COVID pandemic has pushed this tech forward to new heights... and this is because of the increase in online business due to face-to-face business restrictions and there being no other option but to increase online activity in order to survive as well as the increase in contactless payments.

According to King, the company that he's so bullish on:

• takes a “2.65% fee on every payment they process” in return for letting businesses get started using their payment processing device
• its “the CEO started companies like Twitter” and also helped Disney create its online streaming channel, Disney+. 

With that last clue we can easily figure out that he's teasing Square (NYSE: SQ) once again here, the  San Francisco-based company largely focused on providing payment processing solutions for small businesses.

We've seen this pick quite a bit lately, from being one of Teeka Tiwari's blockchain stocks to it even being teased as Motley Fool's "top crypto play".

>> Full write-up of this no. 1 fintech stock

The "Great American Reset" Stock

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "The Great American Reset"
• Name of "Special" Report: "The Company Leading the $12 Trillion 5G Revolution"
• Promoted Under: Automatic Fortunes

In this teaser, King tells us how he thinks that there is a great reset happening largely due to the economic consequences COVID has had on America and that the weak companies are getting weeded out... which means more room for innovative companies to rise to the top and surge forward.

We are told that "you could triple, quadruple, or even 10X your investment" with this opportunity.

In the presentation, he goes over how the US has encountered four major "resets" - big economic downturns where the stock market dropped by at least 30% - and how the market has subsequently rebounded to higher highs, being propelled by these innovative companies he speaks of.

In particular, Mr. King is extremely bullish on one key technology and the company he's teasing has something to do with this. 

Cutting to the chase, he's talking about 5G tech here, which we've already talked a bit about in the "Spectrum" teaser covered below and something that we've heard teased as an investment opportunity more than just about anything else, from the "Battleground 5G stocks" teased by Jimmy Mengel to the "5G Weapon" stock teased by Dylan Jovine, the "Netflix of 5G" teased by Louis Navellier and many more in between.

Besides improving the responsiveness of just about everything you do on your phone, such as loading those funny cat videos asap, 5G also has a lot of potential to help facilitate communication in all sorts of ways, leading to better use of AI, IoT, things like robotic surgery and so on. It's going to likely play a big role in the economic recovery moving forward because of its vast potential.

What company does Ian think is best to get into in order to profit big from this potential growth?

What we know is that:

• It's a "$10 company"
• It's based in California
• It makes 5G routers and hotspots
• It's partnered with the "largest telecom giant in the US" to bring 5G to Houston, LA, Indianapolis, and Sacramento

The company... it's Inseego (INSG)... the California-headquartered maker of the 5G MiFi hotspot, which Ian was actually holding in the presentation.

>> Full "great American reset" stock review here

His "Rebound 2020" Stock

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "Rebound 2020"
• Name of "Special" Report: "This Firm Will Dominate the $11 Trillion Fintech Industry"
• Promoted Under: Automatic Fortunes

He's calling it the "Rebound 2020" and says that there's a "no. 1 investment to make before the market soars to unthinkable new highs."

We are also told that we're on the verge of the greatest bull market in history and that with this special stock he's teasing we could potentially 5x our money.

The presentation is based on the premise that there's a bunch of "pent-up demand" due to COVID lockdowns and King thinks that once these start to fade away there will be people running out of their homes and spending money like mad.

The company he thinks is your best bet to capitalize on all this "pent-up" demand is in the fintech industry. We're also told that:

• Its shares had a previous ATH of $99
• It pledged $1 billion in support of COVID relief for businesses
• It was "lending to small businesses in a way that's faster, cheaper and with much less red tape"

With these given, we've identified this pick as being Square (SQ), which provides services for merchants to make transactions among many other things.

>> Full review of this "rebound 2020" stock here

"Master Technology" Big Data Stock

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "This 'Master Technology' is Behind Every Other Tech Revolution"
• Name of "Special" Report: "The Company Leading the 18,767% Big Data Money Boom"
• Promoted Under: Automatic Fortunes

We are told that "This 'Master Technology' is Behind Every Other Tech Revolution"... and that there happens to be "one California-based tech firm at the center of it all".

King is calling this opportunity the "Investment of the Century." Yes... of the entire century. That's 100 years in case you didn't know.

He's also called his pick here "The Most Important Tech Stock of 2020".

These are some pretty large claims, and if you made it through the presentation very far you'll already know that what he's talking about here is data refining... something he says is "expected to explode 18,767%".

We are told that this tech is around the end of its innovation stage and at any moment will hit the "velocity" stage where its stock price, hopefully, skyrockets.

The company that King is teasing in particular is one that has supposedly "cracked the code to data refining."

Data refining is becoming increasingly important. Well, it's always been important... it's just that the potential of refining the loads of data that companies collect is becoming increasingly beneficial and largely thanks to data refining companies like the one being teased here that help make jumbled messes of data useful, much of the time for marketing purposes.

Some of what we know about the company being teased in this one is that:

• It's California-based
• "They basically own the data refining field with 600 patents"
• They have a data refining software
• Clients of theirs include giants like Coca-cola, Comcast, Amazon, Google, and more
• Its annual sales over the past 5 years have grown 300%

This one matches up nicely with Splunk (SPLK), the San Francisco-based software company that makes software for making use of machine-generated data with graphs, reports, alerts, a searchable repository, etc. 

>> Full review of this "master technology" stock here

His "Spectrum" Stock

• Title of Teaser Presentation: "Spectrum: The Future of All Technology"
• Name of "Special" Report: "The $5 Stock Leading the 5G Revolution"
• Promoted Under: Automatic Fortunes

In this presentation, we have Mr. King teasing us with the opportunity to get in early on an investment in what he calls "spectrum" technology.

Sounds cool, doesn't it? 

"SPECTRUM".

He tells us that it's "the future of all technology" and claims that there is a small $5 stock leading this technological revolution.

How big is this revolution going to be exactly? 

Well, King tells us that it will create $12 trillion in new wealth and 22 million jobs. 

With this said, he's got my attention. 

But, don't get too excited now. He's actually just talking about 5G here, which I'm sure you've already heard plenty about.

"Spectrum" is just a cool word he decided to use in this teaser for marketing purposes.

Nonetheless, with a predicted CAGR of a whopping 30.4% going from 2020 - 2030, this is still an exciting investment opportunity if you can position yourself well.

With speeds up to 100 Gbps - about 100x faster than 4G - it's no wonder there are such optimistic growth predictions around this new tech.

What we know about King's stock is that:

• It's less than $10/share
• It's based in California
• It manufactures 5G routers and hotspots
• Some of its big shareholders include Black Rock, JPMorgan Chase, and Deutsche Bank

With this information, we've been able to fairly confidently expose this stock as being Inseego (INSG), the San Diego-based router and hotspot manufacturer.

>> Read our full write-up of this "spectrum" stock here