{"id":59992,"date":"2026-04-13T07:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/these-two-software-stocks-will-be-generational-buying-opportunities-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:04:23","slug":"these-two-software-stocks-will-be-generational-buying-opportunities-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/these-two-software-stocks-will-be-generational-buying-opportunities-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"These two software stocks will be generational buying opportunities in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As of writing March 12, 2026, the iShares Software ETF (IGV) is down more than 27% year to date, and since its September 2025 peak, is down more than 30% \u2013 losing more than $2 trillion in market cap. For the first time in the modern era, software stocks are now trading at or below the S&#038;P 500 multiple. The rapid pace of AI agent innovation, especially by Anthropic, led to a massive selloff over the past few months and this selloff spread to well-known software stocks like Salesforce, Adobe, ServiceNow, Intuit, and others. Perhaps this is where many investors got confused. Agents are targeting AI agents and <strong>Destroying systems of first attachment<\/strong>. Think this way \u2013 if an AI agent can answer customer tickets, manage projects, or route communications \u2013 you don&#8217;t need Zendesk&#8217;s interface, or Asana&#8217;s boards, or HubSpot&#8217;s sequences. The man-loop that justified per-seat licensing disappears. But AI agent <strong>Cannot replace systems of record<\/strong> (Or at least it would be too expensive\/too low capacity,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v4.0\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"3nfhalVK\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"blyG8KXs\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of writing March 12, 2026, the iShares Software ETF (IGV) is down more than 27% year to date, and since its September 2025 peak, is down more than 30% \u2013 losing more than $2 trillion in market cap. For the first time in the modern era, software stocks are now trading at or below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[2416,11873,3777,13440,1480],"class_list":["post-59992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-meditation","tag-buying","tag-generational","tag-opportunities","tag-software","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59995,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59992\/revisions\/59995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}