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Apple's stock isn't just priced for perfection. It's priced for domination.

The tech giant is showing strength in a weak market, but a closer look reveals it may be adding more of the same risk you already own.

The five biggest names in tech are reporting earnings this week, and their balance sheets will look reassuringly clean. But SEC filings tell a very different story buried deep in the footnotes.

A single analyst upgrade sent CoreWeave surging while cloud infrastructure peers like Cloudflare, Snowflake, and Oracle slid or stalled, raising a pointed question about whether this rally has legs or is running on borrowed momentum.

Larry Ellison’s net worth has dropped $66 billion this year to $181 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. The latest injury to his financials is the chance that Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), the company he founded, will need to provide $7 billion in collateral for a data center. This money is part of a deal ... Larry Ellison Loses $66 Billion

Oracle shares have shed nearly half their value in twelve months while the company quietly piles up a backlog larger than Microsoft's cloud empire. Something in that math does not add up, and the gap may be exactly where the opportunity hides.

The revised projection is $150 billion above OpenAI’s February target, reflecting expanded cloud capacity and hardware requirements as it trains and operates larger AI systems.

Investing.com -- OpenAI is planning a massive data center complex in Effingham County, Georgia, near Savannah, according to The Wall Street Journal. The project underscores the extreme capital and energy demands required to power the next generation of AI. Core Project Details Power & Cost: OpenAI secured 3.2 gigawatts (GW) from Georgia Power—enough for ~2.4 million homes. It committed $20 billion locally to secure incentives, with total costs expected to exceed $30 billion at full capacity. Tim

The AI boom is forcing some of technology’s biggest cash machines to behave more like utilities. On July 22, Reuters reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), and three other hyperscalers are expected to spend more on capital expenditures than they generate in combined free cash flow by 2027. From 2025 through 2027, their […]

Investors are asking whether cloud and AI revenue can keep pace with a sharp rise in capital spending.

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The company’s ambitions helped weaken its credit rating, leaving Oracle one notch above junk status and facing a massive financial requirement.

U.S. hyperscalers are starting to show returns on their artificial intelligence investments, but the rising cost of the buildout is taking a bite out of their free cash flow, and investors are noticing. At their current trajectory, the so-called "hyperscalers" -- Microsoft, Alphabet, ‌Amazon, Meta Platforms and Oracle -- are expected to spend more combined on capital expenditures than they generate in free cash flow by 2027, according ‌to a Reuters analysis of LSEG consensus estimates. The data shows the companies will generate about $340 billion more in annual operating cash flow in 2027 than in 2025, but capex is expected to rise by ​roughly $534 billion, equivalent to about $1.57 of additional investment for every $1 of additional cash flow.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock jumped more than 7% Tuesday, July 21, as investors cheered the chipmaker's latest AI infrastructure push and looked ahead to its key AI event. On Monday, July 20, AMD introduced Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, which is expected to begin shipping later this ...

Its history in market shocks reveals a pattern of deep falls and long recoveries that every shareholder should understand.

The software giant looks expensive on the surface, but a patient investor is effectively buying its future growth at a significant discount.

Oracle (ORCL) stock is moving higher, recovering from its recent slide. Mizuho Americas managing director Siti Panigrahi explains why he maintains an Outperform rating on the stock.

Sixteen Nobel laureates just signed a letter that puts two of AI's most prominent skeptics in the same camp as Silicon Valley's biggest boosters, and the economists behind it say society may have only a few years to respond.

Tech has been dropping for over a month under the weight of a host of worries. No, this agonizingly slow, tortured drawdown is because of five issues—none that haven’t been talked about plenty but laid out well by Sevens Report’s Tom Essaye. Tech has done a 180 and become a capital intensive sector, spending hundreds of billions this year alone.

NVIDIA just placed a massive bet on one AI cloud company, sending its stock into orbit and pulling two rivals along for the ride. But with credit markets flashing warnings on one name and a leaderless rally propping up another, not every gain here is built on solid ground.

AMD has broken a chip monopoly before. In the 2000s, it took server market share away from Intel’s dominant x86 processors, forcing years of price and performance competition that reshaped enterprise computing. Two decades later, AMD is attempting a similar disruption, this time against Nvidia’s ...

The brokerage states that Oracle’s valuation no longer reflects its growth outlook and sees multiple catalysts driving a rebound.

Tech has been dropping for over a month under the weight of a host of worries. No, this agonizingly slow, tortured drawdown is because of five issues—none that haven’t been talked about plenty but laid out well by Sevens Report’s Tom Essaye. Tech has done a 180 and become a capital intensive sector, spending hundreds of billions this year alone.

Oracle (ORCL) has spent two years telling Wall Street it can build AI infrastructure faster than anyone else. A land commissioner in New Mexico just made that harder. On Monday, Oracle stock fell about 3.5% to a fresh 52-week low, trading near $122 after touching $120.03 earlier in the day. ...

Oracle bonds weakened after AI spending concerns pushed default protection to its highest level since 2008.

What a brutal six months it’s been for Oracle. The stock has dropped 30% and now trades at $121.73, rattling many shareholders. This may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.

Salesforce has cratered while posting five straight earnings beats and triple-digit AI growth, and the gap between Wall Street's most bullish analyst and the bears has never been wider. Something has to give.

Oracle (ORCL) is back in focus after Wisconsin regulators upheld rules requiring more than US$7b in financial guarantees for a planned AI data center, sharpening questions around the stock’s aggressive infrastructure buildout and funding plan. See our latest analysis for Oracle. Oracle’s share price has been under pressure, with a 1-month share price return down 34.14% and year to date down 37.98%, while the 1-year total shareholder return is down 49.59% but remains positive over three and...

Regulators upheld rules requiring collateral for large power users.

ORCL's credit risk hits its highest level in nearly 18 years as AI spending strains cash flow, but a $638B backlog may hold the key to easing investor concerns.