rewrite this title A Big Data Company Making Hay While the AI Sun Shines – Nanalyze

In a bull market, everyone’s a genius; and the recent bull market has created more geniuses than ever. Just latch onto the name du jour and start telling everyone your returns in real time because people care about that stuff. Companies like Palantir (PLTR), Tessa (TSLA), and (to a much lesser extent) NVIDIA (NVDA) have been ascribed premium valuations due to their integral roles in our AI-focused world. Palantir helps companies use their data to take action. Tesla is building cars that drive themselves and robots that can wave at you. And NVIDIA is making the advanced hardware that powers it all.

But the most talked-about names aren’t the only ones benefiting from the AI boom. There are over 700 publicly traded stocks in the “Information Technology” sector, and every single one of them has a great plan for how they’re going to “use AI to add value.” Our job as investors is to cut through the noise and find out who’s really making hay while the sun shines.

Pure Storage (PSTG) may be one such company. Roughly one year ago, we wrote an article called Is it Finally Time to Buy Pure Storage Stock on the Dip? Today, the stock is near an all-time high returning +101% over the past year vs. a Nasdaq return of +35%. Since we invest in companies, not stocks, we’re going to try and understand what changed with Pure Storage’s business in the last year that could have resulted in the outperformance .

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The trend has been Pure’s