Amazon shares rose 15%, their best single day since 2012.
The move reads as the market finally pricing AWS reacceleration, where the fastest growth in years is converting capacity buildout into margin. $AMZN
$MSFT saw the biggest single day market cap gain in history based on it being wildly oversold, its strong out perform this quarter, and most of all the rapid sentiment shift that followed the capitulation and deleveraging in the market. Tech earnings have been good and
Apple confirmed it raised prices over what its CEO called a 100-year flood in memory costs.
AI compute now competes with consumer devices for the same DRAM and NAND, and Apple passing that spread through shows which buyer wins the bidding. $AAPL
Honored to be speaking at Schwab’s Market Drive event in Dallas tomorrow to share my market outlook, thoughts on the AI buildout and what the emerging AI economy could look like.
There will be also no Futurum Equities podcast today due to travel.
No podcast today. @danielnewmanUV and @StockSavvyShay are traveling to Dallas to speak at Schwab Market Drive this weekend, headlining the morning sessions on market structure, money flows, and where earnings and corporate health actually stand.
Back on the regular schedule next
@danielnewmanUV @StockSavvyShay Saturday, August 1. Full agenda here if you're in the area or want to see what they're covering.
Agenda
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$AMZN finally connected AI demand, capex, margins and the payback period inside one coherent explanation.
AWS is already a ~$179B annual revenue business growing almost 37% with margins near 39% while backlog has reached ~$500B and both its AI and custom-chip businesses have
AWS operating margin hit 39.4% in Q2, well above the 33.8% expected, on 37% revenue growth.
Custom silicon and scale are widening cloud margins even as CapEx runs hot, which is the whole bull case compressed into one segment. $AMZN
Nexus is in advanced talks for $15B led by Morgan Stanley for a 1.6GW Texas campus for Anthropic, running Google TPUs co-designed with Broadcom.
Custom silicon demand keeps compounding, and vendor financing now wires Broadcom into the project's capital stack. $AVGO