We’re Adding to Our Robotics Holding
Third-quarter industry data and moves by Walmart, Amazon and D.R. Horton prompt our move.
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| Symbol | Transaction Type | # Shares Traded | Recent Price $ | Shares Owned After Trade | % Portfolio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBO | Buy | 400 | 73.20 | 1,790 | 2.2 |
After you receive this alert, the Pro Portfolio will buy 400 shares of the ROBO Global Robotics & Automation Index ETF (ROBO) at or near $73.25. Following the trade, we will own 1,790 ROBO shares, accounting for roughly 2.25% of the Pro Portfolio’s assets. This will increase our ROBO share count by ~29%.
While we expected to remain on the sidelines today, the market is shaking off the worst of the developments we identified earlier. Word that Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia (NVDA) is helping on that front. We are still looking to see if some of the candidates discussed Wednesday find their footing, but we are going to use comments from JPMorgan this morning and the ripple effect of NVDA shares trading off to wade a little deeper into the Portfolio’s ROBO position.
Our underlying thesis around corporate investment in robotics and automation, mixed with accelerated depreciation under the One Big Beautiful Bill remains in play. Third-quarter 2026 data from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) brings support for that line of reasoning. Orders for robots increased just shy of 25% year over year to 10,989 during the quarter. On a sequential basis, orders rose 23% vs. the 8,940 robots ordered in the prior quarter.
Recently, Walmart (WMT) committed about $6 billion over several years to expand Symbotic (SYM) automation across 25 U.S. regional distribution centers. SYM shares are a holding in the ROBO ETF. Following its August announcement for a new robotics hub in Austin, Texas, Amazon (AMZN) announced plans to spend $100 million on a new robotics facility in Greenwood, Indiana.
Other confirmation points include privately held Promise Robotics announcing a multi-year agreement with D.R. Horton (DHI). Horton will use Promise’s Factory-as-a-Service capabilities to produce more than 1,250 homes in the U.S.
Gecko Robotics reported an additional $300 million on its contract with the U.S. Navy and General Services Administration. With the increase, the U.S. Navy and GSA have quadrupled the ceiling value on Gecko’s contract for slashing maintenance delays and improving fleet readiness. The news came just six months after an initial $71 million IDIQ contract award.
As we complete this trade, we will adjust our ROBO checkpoint level to $60 and note that we are reviewing our Two rating. What we hear from ROBO constituents, such as Xpeng (XPEB), Symbotic, Ambarella (AMBA), Autodesk (ADSK), Elekta and others as they report quarterly results will be a determining factor in that decision.
(Please note that we are looking to execute these trades at or near the share price mentioned above. Once the trade is completed, subscribers can see the trade’s executed price here. Be sure to toggle the chart to sort by Purchase Date.)
At the time of publication, TheStreet Pro Portfolio was long AMZN, NVDA, and ROBO shares.
