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Wilmington, Delaware, United States, Transparency Market Research Inc. -, Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The global renewable naphtha market (재생 가능한 나프타 시장) is estimated to flourish at a CAGR of 41.9% from 2023 to 2031. Transparency Market Research projects that the overall sales revenue for renewable naphtha is estimated to reach US$ 21.4 billion by the end of 2031.

A prominent factor is the growing focus on circular economy principles. Companies are increasingly adopting strategies to optimize resource use and minimize waste generation. Renewable naphtha, derived from organic feedstocks or waste streams, aligns with these objectives, offering a sustainable alternative to conventional naphtha production methods.

Advancements in biorefinery integration and process optimization are enhancing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of renewable naphtha production. Integrated biorefinery complexes that co-produce renewable naphtha alongside other valuable bioproducts maximize resource utilization and economic viability.

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Emerging applications for renewable naphtha beyond traditional fuel blending are driving market growth. For instance, the utilization of renewable naphtha in the production of bio-based plastics, resins, and specialty chemicals offers opportunities for value-added product diversification and market expansion.

Renewable Naphtha Market: Competitive Landscape

The competitive landscape of the renewable naphtha market is characterized by a mix of established players and emerging innovators striving to capitalize on the growing demand for sustainable fuel alternatives. Key market participants such as Neste, TotalEnergies, and UPM Biofuels dominate with their extensive production capacities and diversified product portfolios.

Smaller players like Gevo and Avantium are leveraging their technological expertise to carve out niche markets. Collaboration and strategic partnerships between industry leaders and technology startups are driving innovation and market expansion.

Regulatory support and increasing consumer preference for eco-friendly solutions further intensify competition, fostering continuous growth and evolution in the sector. Some prominent players are as follows:

• UPM Biofuels
• Neste
• Renewable Energy Group
• Borealis AG
• Eni
• BASF
• Dow
• St1
• TotalEnergies
• Rapsol
• Sunshine Biofuels

Product Portfolio

• TotalEnergies offers a comprehensive product portfolio spanning conventional and renewable energy solutions, including biofuels, solar power, and sustainable mobility options. Their commitment to innovation and sustainability drives the development of cutting-edge technologies to meet the world’s evolving energy needs efficiently and responsibly.
• Rapsol specializes in advanced biofuels derived from sustainable sources, providing eco-friendly alternatives to traditional fossil fuels. With a focus on quality, reliability, and environmental stewardship, Rapsol delivers innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions and promote a cleaner energy future.
• Sunshine Biofuels pioneers the production and distribution of renewable fuels derived from organic waste streams, offering cost-effective and sustainable energy solutions. Through advanced conversion technologies and strategic partnerships, Sunshine Biofuels aims to mitigate environmental impacts while contributing to the transition towards a circular economy.

Key Findings of the Market Report

• Heavy naphtha emerges as the leading segment in the renewable naphtha market, driven by its versatility and suitability for various industrial applications.
• Used cooking oil emerges as the leading feedstock segment in the renewable naphtha market due to its widespread availability and high conversion efficiency.
• Fuel blending emerges as the leading application segment in the renewable naphtha market, driven by the demand for cleaner fuel alternatives worldwide.

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Renewable Naphtha Market Growth Drivers & Trends

• Stringent environmental policies worldwide are pushing industries towards renewable naphtha, driving market growth as companies seek cleaner fuel alternatives to reduce carbon emissions.
• Continuous innovation in renewable naphtha production processes enhances efficiency, lowers costs, and expands market accessibility, fostering industry growth and competitiveness.
• Growing awareness of climate change prompts consumers and businesses to prioritize sustainable energy sources, boosting demand for renewable naphtha across various sectors.
• Government incentives and subsidies for renewable energy projects encourage investment in renewable naphtha production infrastructure, stimulating market expansion and diversification.
• The global shift towards renewable energy sources accelerates adoption of renewable naphtha, as industries seek to align with sustainability goals and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

Global Renewable Naphtha Market: Regional Profile

• In North America, particularly in the United States and Canada, stringent environmental regulations and growing emphasis on sustainability drive the adoption of renewable naphtha. Leading companies like Gevo and Neste are leveraging advanced technologies to expand production capacities, catering to the region’s increasing demand for eco-friendly fuels.
• Europe stands at the forefront of renewable naphtha adoption, propelled by ambitious renewable energy targets and supportive regulatory frameworks. Countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, and Finland are witnessing significant investments in bio-refineries and renewable fuel infrastructure, positioning the region as a global leader in sustainable energy solutions.
• Asia Pacific, with its rapidly expanding economies and burgeoning population, presents immense growth opportunities for the renewable naphtha market. Countries like China, Japan, and India are investing in renewable energy infrastructure to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and curb carbon emissions.
• Collaborations between governments and private sector entities are driving innovation and market expansion across the region.

Renewable Naphtha Market: Key Segments

By Type

• Light Naphtha
• Heavy Naphtha

By Feedstock

• Wood Pulp Residue
• Vegetable Oil Waste
• Used Cooking Oil
• Animal Fat
• Others

By Application

• Bio Plastic Production
• Hydrogen Production
• Fuel Blending
• Aromatic Compounds
• Others

By Region

• North America
• Latin America
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• Middle East & Africa

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In the past couple of years, artificial intelligence (AI) emerged as one of the key investment themes on Wall Street. The frenzy surrounding AI is not without reason — it presents a set of technological tools and innovations that transform entire industries and functional disciplines. Wall Street had to jump on this bandwagon, and subsequently, many AI-powered stocks soared to dizzying highs.

Some of these stocks are still going strong and can generate impressive returns in the next few years, especially for investors with around $50,000 to spare now (which is not required for regular expenditures or contingencies).

Here’s what I consider a hypothetical $50,000 investment portfolio should look like.

Nvidia

Chip giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) will account for the biggest chunk or 40% ($20,000) of my hypothetical $50,000 investment portfolio.

The company is the undisputed leader in the global AI market thanks to its focus on offering a complete end-to-end AI platform comprising technologically superior chips (graphics processing units or GPUs, data-center products, and DGX systems); software ecosystem (CUDA, a parallel computing platform); Nvidia AI Enterprise software and data-center specific accelerated-software solutions; advanced-networking components; and servers.

Nvidia’s stock soared 2,900% in the past five years (after adjusting for the 10:1 stock split in June 2024). Yet, the company still has the potential to grow even higher in 2025 mainly driven by the surging demand for its next-generation Blackwell platform, which is far outpacing supply. Nvidia expects to ramp up production of Blackwell systems and record billions of dollars in Blackwell revenues in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 (ending Jan. 31, 2025). Reports also indicate that these Blackwell systems sold out for the next 12 months, implying the company will enjoy solid pricing power.

In the face of a tight Blackwell supply, Nvidia may continue to see robust demand for its Hopper chips from data center and enterprise AI segments in the coming quarters. Additionally, the company’s software solutions are proving to be a major competitive edge, since they help boost the adoption and functioning of the company’s hardware products. As the CUDA-compatible graphics processing unit (GPU)-installed base grows from millions to tens of millions in the AI market, Nvidia expects demand for Nvidia AI Enterprise software to grow significantly in the coming months. The company expects its software business to reach an annual run rate of $2 billion by the end of fiscal 2025, thus emerging as a major-revenue catalyst in the next few years.

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Considering the many tailwinds, Nvidia has lots of upside potential.

Microsoft

Technology behemoth Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will make up 30% or $15,000 of my hypothetical $50,000 investment portfolio.

Microsoft’s partnership with ChatGPT developer OpenAI proved transformational and played a pivotal role in enabling the company to build AI-optimized hardware and software stacks rapidly. The demand for Microsoft’s AI infrastructure, which includes Azure AI services (cloud-native suite of AI applications focused on areas such as data analysis, machine learning, and deep learning), CoPilots (AI agents integrated into various applications), and custom AI chips, has been far outpacing supply.

The increasing adoption of AI services is also driving the usage of Microsoft’s data services. The number of Azure AI customers using the company’s data services grew by almost 50% year over year in the fiscal 2024 Q4 (ending June 30, 2024). Microsoft Fabric, the company’s AI-powered next-generation data platform, had more than 14,000 paying customers at the end of the fourth quarter. Microsoft’s Azure Arc service, a multicloud and on-premise management solution, was also adopted by nearly 36,000 customers at the end of quarter, up 90% on a year-over-year basis.

Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing business is also a major growth catalyst. Azure is a key beneficiary of the ongoing migration of on-premise enterprise data to the cloud. Furthermore, the company’s cloud-based data-integration service, Data Factory, enables clients to connect their on-premise data estate to Azure services and Fabric services even before full-data migration.

Cybersecurity is another major growth avenue, with the company boasting a customer base of 1.2 million for its security offerings at the end of Q4. Over 800,000 large customers were using four or more of the company’s security workloads, up 25% on a year-over-year basis. This implies that Microsoft’s products are tightly integrated into many of their customers’ operations, making it difficult for the latter to switch to competitors.

Clearly, Microsoft has several growth drivers that can have a very positive impact on its financial and share-price performance in fiscal 2025.

In summary, Microsoft may be a smart buy for astute investors.

Meta Platforms

Social media giant Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) will account for the remaining 30% or $15,000 of my hypothetical $50,000 investment portfolio.

Accounting for a 21.3% share of the U.S. digital-advertising spending, Meta demonstrated an exceptional ability to effectively monetize its Family of Apps (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger). This is evident based on the steady improvement in the cost per impression paid by advertisers for advertising on Facebook and Instagram since January 2024.

Meta leverages multiple AI technologies to improve content recommendations across its social media applications, which in turn helps add new users and boost overall user engagement. The company also helps advertisers create more targeted advertisement campaigns with its AI-powered Advantage+ suite of solutions. All these initiatives translate into higher returns for advertisers, which increase the attractiveness of Meta’s social media applications.

Meta has nearly 3.2 billion people using at least one of its applications in the fiscal 2024 Q2 (ending June 30, 2024). The huge user base and broad geographical reach generated a powerful network effect since more users make the platform even more attractive for advertisers, who then offer additional avenues for user engagement. Subsequently, Meta enjoys significant pricing power for its digital assets. Furthermore, the user base gives the company access to more data, which helps it improve its content recommendation and ad-targeting algorithms.

Meta’s Reality Labs business is not yet profitable. However, the company views it as a solid long-term investment. Plus, based on the strength of its core digital-advertising business, Meta seems to be a smart pick now.

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OpenAI introduced its conversational intelligence application ChatGPT in November 2022. Since then, artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the hottest investment themes on Wall Street, and AI stocks Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) have been the best-performing members of the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC).

Specifically, Supermicro and Nvidia saw their shares surge 650% and 1,030%, respectively, over the last two years as unprecedented demand for AI infrastructure led to phenomenal financial results. Consequently, both companies reset their soaring share prices earlier this year by completing 10-for-1 stock splits.

However, businesses are still in the early stages of building out their AI infrastructure, and Wall Street believes continued investments in supercomputing chips and servers will drive shares of Supermicro and Nvidia higher over the next 12 months. Here are price targets provided by The Wall Street Journal:

• Among the 20 analysts following Supermicro, the average price target is $67.50 per share. That forecast implies 41% upside from its current share price of $48.

• Among the 64 analysts following Nvidia, the average price target is $150 per share. That forecast implies 7% upside from its current share price of $140.

Here’s what investors should know about Supermicro and Nvidia.

1. Super Micro Computer

Super Micro Computer manufacturers high-performance computing platforms, including servers and full server racks, optimized for AI. The company handles most product development and assembly internally at facilities in Silicon Valley, and it uses electronic building blocks to rapidly build a broad range of servers featuring the latest chips. That often allows Supermicro to bring new products to market two to six months before its competitors.

In March, Rosenblatt analyst Hans Mosesmann wrote, “Super Micro has developed a model that is very, very quick to market. They usually have the widest portfolio of products when a new product comes out.” That time-to-market advantage, coupled with broad product selection, has carried Supermicro to the forefront of the AI server industry, which is forecast to grow at 30% annually through 2033.

Supermicro reported mixed results in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024 (ended June 30). Revenue increased 143% to $5.3 billion, but gross margin contracted almost 6 percentage points to 11.2%, and non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) net income increased only 78%. Margin contraction may be a symptom of diminished pricing power amid increased competition, but management expects gross margin to normalize between 14% and 17% as liquid-cooled servers ship in higher volume toward the end of fiscal 2025.

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Importantly, short-seller Hindenburg Research accused Supermicro of accounting manipulation in August, and The Wall Street Journal said the company was being investigated by the Justice Department in September. Supermicro was fined in 2020 for accounting manipulation, prior to which the stock was temporarily delisted from the Nasdaq Exchange because the company filed its Form 10-K for fiscal 2017 nearly two years late.

A similar sequence of events is playing out this time around. Supermicro has yet to file its Form 10-K for fiscal 2024, despite it being due on Aug. 29, and the company has received a letter of noncompliance from the Nasdaq Exchange. While delisting is not imminent and the situation may be resolved without issue, investors should know Supermicro is a risky stock due to the regulatory issues hanging over the company.

Having said that, Wall Street still expects the company’s earnings to increase 54% over the next 12 months, which makes its current valuation of 21.7 times adjusted earnings look quite cheap. At that price, risk-tolerant investors can buy a small position in Supermicro stock, provided they know regulatory issues could make shares volatile in the coming months.

2. Nvidia

Dan Ives at Wedbush Securities has called Nvidia the “foundation of the AI revolution.” Its graphics processing units (GPUs) power the most advanced artificial intelligence systems, such that the semiconductor company has more than 80% market share in AI accelerators. That leadership is reinforced by CUDA, a robust ecosystem of software tools that lets developers write GPU-accelerated applications across numerous domains, from computational chemistry to machine learning.

Beyond that, Nvidia has a key advantage in its full-stack computing platform that spans hardware, software, and services. Since acquiring networking specialist Mellanox in 2019, Nvidia has secured a leadership position in generative AI networking equipment, according to Morningstar. Nvidia has also introduced its first server central processing unit (CPU), and its software and services business is expected to reach a $2 billion revenue run rate this year.

Grand View Research estimates AI accelerator sales will increase at 29% annually through 2030, while spending across AI hardware, software, and services compounds at 36% annually. Nvidia is one of the companies best positioned to benefit, given that it participates in so many parts of the AI economy, and dominates the AI accelerator market. “Competing with Nvidia, a company that spends over $10 billion per year in R&D, is a difficult feat,” according to analysts at Morgan Stanley.

Wall Street expects Nvidia’s adjusted earnings to increase 54% over the next year. That estimate makes the current valuation of 63.3 times adjusted earnings look fair. To be clear, the stock is not cheap, nor is it outrageously expensive. Patient investors should feel good about buying a small position in Nvidia today.

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Energy demand is strong and growing. The world’s energy demand is on pace to grow 15% by 2050. While wind and solar will be meaningful contributors to supplying this incremental energy, they can’t power the world on their own. Because of that, the demand for fossil fuels should continue to rise for at least the next decade.

That future bodes well for energy stocks. In particular, energy infrastructure companies should be able to continue expanding their footprints, which should grow their cash flows and dividends. That makes leaders like Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET), Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD), and Enbridge (NYSE: ENB) stand out as great stocks to buy for those seeking a high-octane income stream over the coming decade.

Visible growth ahead

Energy Transfer is a leader in the U.S. energy midstream industry. The master limited partnership (MLP) has a nationwide footprint of pipelines, processing plants, storage terminals, and export facilities. Those assets generate stable cash flows backed by long-term contracts and government-regulated rate structures.

The MLP distributes a little more than half of its stable cash flow to investors each year. That income stream currently yields nearly 8%. The company retains the rest of its cash to invest in expansion projects and maintain a strong financial foundation.

Energy Transfer currently has several expansion projects under construction that should come online through 2026. They provide it with lots of near-term visibility into its ability to grow its cash flow and distribution. In addition, the company has several other large-scale projects under development, including Lake Charles LNG, its Blue Marlin oil export terminal, and lower-carbon projects like blue ammonia and carbon capture and sequestration.

The MLP’s strong financial profile and growing backlog of projects fuel its view that it can increase its already massive distribution by 3% to 5% annually in the coming years. That makes it an excellent option for those who are seeking a steadily rising income stream and are comfortable investing in MLPs, which send their investors a Schedule K-1 federal tax form each year.

The streak should continue

Enterprise Products Partners is another leading MLP. The company has a remarkable record of consistency. It has increased its distribution payment for 26 straight years.

The MLP currently yields more than 7%. That hefty payout is on a very sustainable foundation. Enterprise Products Partners has a low payout ratio (55% of its adjusted cash flow from operations over the last 12 months) and the strongest balance sheet in the energy midstream sector.

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Its financial strength gives it the flexibility to continue investing in expanding its operations while increasing its distribution. Enterprise Products Partners currently has $6.7 billion of major capital projects under construction that should enter service through 2026. That doesn’t include its potentially large-scale SPOT oil export terminal and other lower-carbon projects it has in development. Those and future projects should grow its cash flow, giving the MLP the fuel to continue increasing its distribution.

A massive growth backlog

Enbridge is a North American energy infrastructure leader. The Canadian company operates pipelines and utility businesses that generate stable and growing cash flow. That income supports its high-yielding dividend (currently over 6%).

Enbridge has a massive backlog of commercially secured expansion projects. The company ended the second quarter with 24 billion Canadian dollars ($17.4 billion) of capital projects scheduled to come online through 2028. It recently enhanced and extended its backlog by securing another $700 million of projects that should enter service in 2029. Its projects include oil pipeline expansions, new natural gas pipelines, LNG export capacity, gas utility growth, and renewable energy projects. Meanwhile, it has many more projects under development.

That robust backlog helps drive the company’s view that it can grow its earnings by around 5% annually over the medium term. That should give it the power to continue increasing its dividend. Enbridge has raised its payout for 29 straight years.

Lots of fuel to continue paying big dividends

The world will need a lot more energy in the future, which will fuel growth for infrastructure companies. Energy Transfer, Enterprise Products Partners, and Enbridge have large, expanding backlogs of projects, giving them increasing visibility into their future growth prospects. Those projects should increase their cash flow as they enter commercial service, giving them the power to continue growing their already high-yielding payouts. That combination of high yields and visible growth makes them great income stocks to buy and hold for the next decade.

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