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An industrial name key to the AI buildout made Josh Brown’s Best Stocks list. It’s breaking out
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(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — We’re going to tell you about an industrial stock making a new 52-week high this week and potentially breaking out of a triple top. You’ve heard me say there’s no such thing as a triple top. This doesn’t mean a stock can’t print one; it means they rarely last. This is because eventually the sellers exhaust themselves while the buyers are persisting at the same price multiple times. Buying pressure will usually win out. In the case of Trane Technologies (TT) , that’s exactly what I think is playing out. Most people know Trane as the company that keeps your office building comfortable. That’s still true. But the story is evolving. Over the past five years, Trane grew revenue to $21.3 billion from $12.5 billion, and the engine behind that growth isn’t residential HVAC. It’s the AI boom. Data centers run hot, and someone has to cool them. Trane has been positioning for exactly this moment. In 2023, the company made an early bet on liquid immersion cooling by investing in LiquidStack, a technology that looked premature at the time. It wasn’t. Trane completed the full acquisition of LiquidStack in March 2026, adding direct-to-chip and immersion cooling to an already formidable thermal management portfolio. I can’t explain immersion cooling, I just know it’s important. In February, they closed the acquisition of Stellar Energy Americas, a provider of modular data center cooling solutions. Looking at these deals tells you that this is not a company dabbling in data centers. They’ve decided that data centers are the next chapter and went out and bought the tools to win it. The chart is starting to agree. Sean’s going to take you into the company’s fundamentals and I will be back with a chart showing this attempt to break through. Best Stock Spotlight: Trane Technologies Plc (TT) Sean — As Josh noted, Trane is an HVAC firm keeping us cool in the Summer. They operate two segments: Trane (commercial and residential HVAC, building controls and energy services) and Thermo King (transport refrigeration). This company has a couple tailwinds at its back. The first, as Josh mentioned, is the data center build-out. Trane’s modular solutions address both the cooling intensity of AI-related data center builds and labor/speed constraints faced by data center builders. These “Chillers” as they call them are being co-developed with chipmakers (including NVDA), and are utilizing pre-fabricated modules from the new Stellar Energy acquisition to get equipment out to job sites as fast as the hyperscalers are requesting them. Services play a part here, too. Services is 1/3 of TT’s total enterprise revenue and has grown at a low-teens CAGR since 2020. The other tailwind is an infrastructure megatrend – there is secular demand for energy-efficient HVAC systems within commercial, industrial, and residential buildings. All of the new apartments going up across the country will need HVAC systems and teams to service them. The financials look good – revenue has compounded at an 11% CAGR since 2020, growing from $12.5B to $21.3B by FY2025. EPS growth has been even more impressive, compounding at a 24% adjusted EPS CAGR over the same period. Looking forward, Trane’s 2026 outlook is backed by an $8B backlog and expects 6%-7% organic top line growth for the year. You are getting this data center exposure at a forward 28x earnings, with 14% EPS growth expected in the next year. Risk management Josh — Trane Technologies spent most of 2025 in a grinding correction, chopping between $375 and $450 before finding its footing near the 200-day and launching a clean recovery into year-end. The stock broke out of that base in early 2026, cleared resistance near $450, and is now making its assault on the triple-top at $476. The price action here is tight consolidation, a reclaim of the 50-day, and higher lows throughout the base. That looks more like accumulation than distribution. RSI is 65, firm but not stretched. There’s no sign of a momentum breakdown here. This is a stock being bought without the kind of euphoria that tends to precede sharp reversals, which keeps the setup clean heading into the next leg. Remember, we like the grind higher and we avoid the parabolic stuff that looks like a steeple. This is our kind of grind. For traders, the risk level is obvious. Between $445 to $450 is the zone, defined by the top of the gap ($450) and the rising 50-day ($445). A close below $445 invalidates the breakout and resets. Disciplined traders would move to the sidelines should that occur. Investors can use that same area as a pivot. If TT holds above $450, the structure stays intact and the next objective is a run at $500 to $550, where the highest Street price targets currently sit. Q1 earnings are April 30th and with Americas Commercial HVAC bookings up over 120% in Q4 and a record backlog, the fundamental setup matches what the chart is saying. Stay cool. DISCLOSURES: (None) All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, or its parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE FINANCIAL, INVESTMENT, TAX OR LEGAL ADVICE OR A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY ANY SECURITY OR OTHER FINANCIAL ASSET. THE CONTENT IS GENERAL IN NATURE AND DOES NOT REFLECT ANY INDIVIDUAL’S UNIQUE PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES. THE ABOVE CONTENT MIGHT NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUR PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES. 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