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Got $10,000? Buy These 2 Industrial Stocks, and Avoid This One Like the Plague

Two industrial stocks are positioned to benefit from the AI electricity boom, but one famous turnaround story still isn't worth risking fresh money on.

Got $10,000? Buy These 2 Industrial Stocks, and Avoid This One Like the Plague

Published July 21, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

When you have $10,000 to invest, where you refuse to put your money matters just as much as where you do put it. The industrial sector is booming right now, powered by the enormous electricity and data center build-out behind artificial intelligence, but not every industrial deserves your cash.

Here are two stocks I would buy for that tailwind, and one popular name I would steer well clear of, no matter how loud the comeback story gets.

Details

Eaton (NYSE: ETN) is the electrical backbone of the AI era. It makes the equipment that moves and manages power inside data centers, factories, and the grid, and demand has gone vertical. Its data center orders recently jumped roughly 240% from a year earlier, and its total data center backlog now represents something like 11 years of construction at current build rates. That's extraordinary visibility for an industrial company. Management raised its 2026 growth outlook and is spending $1.5 billion to expand manufacturing so it can actually deliver on the orders stacking up.

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Originally published at www.fool.com.

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