The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA:DIA) crossed 50,000 for the first time on February 6, 2026, marking a historic milestone for the 30-stock blue-chip index. The move caps a strong rally, with DIA up 4.25% year-to-date and 11.99% over the past year. What’s driving the surge? Financials dominate the index at 27.8% of holdings, with ... Dow Jones Sets Record and Breaks Past 50,000
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA:DIA) crossed 50,000 for the first time on February 6, 2026, marking a historic milestone for the 30-stock blue-chip index. The move caps a strong rally, with DIA up 4.25% year-to-date and 11.99% over the past year. What’s driving the surge? Financials dominate the index at 27.8% of holdings, with ... Dow Jones Sets Record and Breaks Past 50,000
More than $800 million in Super Bowl bets have already come in through prediction markets. On today’s Big Take podcast: how these markets have changed the sports betting landscape — and how one pro is approaching his bets this weekend (Source: Bloomberg)
More than $800 million in Super Bowl bets have already come in through prediction markets. On today’s Big Take podcast: how these markets have changed the sports betting landscape — and how one pro is approaching his bets this weekend (Source: Bloomberg)
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Opendoor stock is up more than 260% over the last year. What comes next? Opendoor Technologies (OPEN +3.83%) made waves in the stock market last year with some incredibly volatile moves. Despite some big pullbacks, the company's share price is still up more than 260% over the last 12 months of trading. On the other hand, the stock is also down 52% from its 52-week high. Opendoor is aiming to carry...
Opendoor stock is up more than 260% over the last year. What comes next? Opendoor Technologies (OPEN +3.83%) made waves in the stock market last year with some incredibly volatile moves. Despite some big pullbacks, the company's share price is still up more than 260% over the last 12 months of trading. On the other hand, the stock is also down 52% from its 52-week high. Opendoor is aiming to carry out a major turnaround strategy and energize its iBuyer real estate business, but some big questions remains about whether the comeback play will pan out. Does Opendoor have what it takes to disrupt the real estate industry, or is the stock just another value trap? What's next for Opendoor? To chart what might come next for Opendoor, it's a good idea to put its big stock gains over the last year in context. The company's huge valuation run up over the last year was heavily powered by meme-stock momentum. Opendoor's share price surged last year after EMJ Capital founder and president Eric Jackson championed the stock as a potentially massive winner. But while the stock saw massive gains in conjunction with achieving hot meme-stock status, actual business performance was less flashy. Opendoor posted sales of roughly $915 million in last year's third quarter -- down substantially from the roughly $1.38 billion in revenue it recorded in the prior-year period. Meanwhile, gross profit came in at roughly $66 million -- down from $105 million in the prior-year quarter. In addition to the sales decline in the period, gross margin deteriorated to 7.2% from 7.6% in the previous year's quarter. Expand NASDAQ : OPEN Opendoor Technologies Today's Change ( 3.83 %) $ 0.18 Current Price $ 4.88 Key Data Points Market Cap $4.5B Day's Range $ 4.76 - $ 5.04 52wk Range $ 0.51 - $ 10.87 Volume 43M Avg Vol 87M Gross Margin 8.01 % On the other hand, the company's non-GAAP (adjusted) net loss in Q3 2025 narrowed to $61 million from $70 million in Q3 2024. Opendoor has been relying on the integratio...
Anne Czichos/iStock Editorial via Getty Images CVS Health ( CVS ) said that its network of around 9,000 pharmacies is accepting TrumpRx discount cards for prescription drugs. President Trump formally launched the TrumpRx program on Thursday evening. Initially, discounts are available for 43 drugs from five drugmakers: AstraZeneca (AZN ), Eli Lilly (LLY ), EMD Serono, Novo Nordisk (NVO ), and Pfize...
Anne Czichos/iStock Editorial via Getty Images CVS Health ( CVS ) said that its network of around 9,000 pharmacies is accepting TrumpRx discount cards for prescription drugs. President Trump formally launched the TrumpRx program on Thursday evening. Initially, discounts are available for 43 drugs from five drugmakers: AstraZeneca (AZN ), Eli Lilly (LLY ), EMD Serono, Novo Nordisk (NVO ), and Pfizer (PFE ). Consumers can get discounted medications in two ways: either by searching on TrumpRx.gov, which shows the price and then redirects them to a drugmaker's site to complete the transaction; or with a coupon card at participating pharmacies. CVS is also a retail pharmacy partner for Novo Nordisk's NovoCare Pharmacy. More on CVS CVS Health: Exploit The Sector Panic Ahead Of Earnings CVS Health Corporation (CVS) Analyst/Investor Day Prepared Remarks Transcript CVS Health Corporation (CVS) Analyst/Investor Day - Slideshow CVS Health to swap Amgen and Lilly’s bone drugs with biosimilars in commercial formularies Healthcare lobbying efforts reach record high in Washington: report
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In this article META MSFT AMZN GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A general view of the Google Midlothian Data Center where Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are scheduled to speak on Nov. 14, 2025 in Midlothian, Texas. Ron Jenkins | Getty Images Alphabet , Microsoft , Meta and Amazon are expected to spend nearly $700 billion combined this year to ...
In this article META MSFT AMZN GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A general view of the Google Midlothian Data Center where Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are scheduled to speak on Nov. 14, 2025 in Midlothian, Texas. Ron Jenkins | Getty Images Alphabet , Microsoft , Meta and Amazon are expected to spend nearly $700 billion combined this year to fuel their AI buildouts. For investors who love cash above all else, some warning signs may be flashing. With the heart of tech earnings season wrapping up this week, Wall Street has a clearer picture of how the artificial intelligence race is poised to accelerate in 2026. The four hyperscalers are now projected to increase capital expenditures by more than 60% from the historic levels reached in 2025, as they load up on high-priced chips, build new mammoth facilities and buy the networking technology to connect it all. Getting to those kinds of numbers is going to require sacrifice in the form of free cash flow. Last year, the four biggest U.S. internet companies generated a combined $200 billion in free cash flow, down from $237 billion in 2024. The more dramatic drop appears to be ahead, as companies invest heavily upfront, promising future returns on investment. That means, margin pressures. less cash generation in the near term and the potential need to further tap the equity and debt markets. Alphabet held a $25 billion bond sale in November, and it's long-term debt quadrupled in 2025 to $46.5 billion. Amazon, which on Thursday said it expects to spend $200 billion this year, is now looking at negative free cash flow of almost $17 billion in 2026, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley, while Bank of America analysts see a deficit of $28 billion. In a filing with the SEC on Friday, Amazon let investors know that it may seek to raise equity and debt as its buildout continues. watch now VIDEO 3:37 03:37 Amazon’s free cash flow likely to go negative on this capex, while...
mustafaU/iStock via Getty Images Palantir Technologies Inc. ( PLTR ), the leading provider of artificial intelligence software for government and commercial customers, reported fourth-quarter results that beat analyst estimates . As part of a broader market selloff, particularly for AI stocks, Palantir Technologies stock has declined 17.4% since my last report . In this report, I discuss the compa...
mustafaU/iStock via Getty Images Palantir Technologies Inc. ( PLTR ), the leading provider of artificial intelligence software for government and commercial customers, reported fourth-quarter results that beat analyst estimates . As part of a broader market selloff, particularly for AI stocks, Palantir Technologies stock has declined 17.4% since my last report . In this report, I discuss the company’s most recent earnings and the outlook, and I update my price target. Palantir Earnings Are Simply Impressive Palantir Technologies (Q4 2025 Earnings Presentation) The growth story of Palantir Technologies remains impressive. Sales rose 70% in the fourth quarter to $1.41 billion, beating estimates by $65.4 million, or 4.9%. Earnings per share rose to $0.25 and were $0.02 ahead of expectations. Excluding strategic contracts, the revenue growth was even 72%. In the U.S., revenues grew 93% to $1.077 billion, with 137% growth to $507 million for commercial revenues and 66% growth to $570 million for U.S. Government contracts. International contract revenues rose 22.5% to $331 million. Adjusted operating income increased 114% to $798 million as margins increased from 45% last year to 57% this year. So, we continue to see that operating leverage is improving. As I previously noted, the cost profile to a large extent is decoupled from top-line growth, and that allows margins to increase substantially. Customer count increased 34% year-on-year, while commercial customer count rose 37%. Sequentially, customer count rose 5%. Net dollar retention was 139%. Net dollar retention is the recurring revenues from a customer cohort in the prior year plus contract upsells minus down sells and churn divided by the recurring revenues from the cohort in the last year. It provides an indication of contract value expansions or contractions. So, what we are seeing is that the company is not only increasing its customer count but also expanding business with existing customers. Palantir Technolog...
Key Points IEMG offers a higher yield and higher recent return, but has deeper historical drawdowns than NZAC. NZAC applies an ESG screen focused on climate alignment, while IEMG tracks a broad emerging markets index. IEMG is vastly larger and more liquid, holding nearly four times as many stocks as NZAC. 10 stocks we like better than iShares - iShares Core Msci Emerging Markets ETF › The State St...
Key Points IEMG offers a higher yield and higher recent return, but has deeper historical drawdowns than NZAC. NZAC applies an ESG screen focused on climate alignment, while IEMG tracks a broad emerging markets index. IEMG is vastly larger and more liquid, holding nearly four times as many stocks as NZAC. 10 stocks we like better than iShares - iShares Core Msci Emerging Markets ETF › The State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI Climate Paris Aligned ETF (NASDAQ:NZAC) emphasizes climate-focused Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) screening across global markets, while the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEMKT:IEMG) delivers broad emerging markets exposure with a higher yield and significantly greater assets under management. Both NZAC and IEMG seek diversified global equity exposure, but differ in region, style, and focus. NZAC tilts toward climate-conscious investing, spanning developed and emerging markets; IEMG zeroes in on emerging markets, offering a more concentrated regional play. This comparison unpacks their costs, returns, risk, and portfolio makeup to help clarify the trade-offs. Snapshot (cost & size) Metric NZAC IEMG Issuer SPDR IShares Expense ratio 0.12% 0.09% 1-yr return (as of 2026-01-30) 15.8% 35.3% Dividend yield 1.9% 2.5% Beta 1.06 0.63 AUM $183.2 million $138.8 billion Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from five-year weekly returns. The 1-year return represents total return over the trailing 12 months. IEMG is slightly more affordable in fees, charging 0.09% compared to NZAC’s 0.12%. IEMG also provides a higher trailing dividend yield by 0.6 percentage points, which may appeal to income-oriented investors. Performance & risk comparison Metric NZAC IEMG Max drawdown (5 y) -28.29% -37.16% Growth of $1,000 over 5 years $1,499 $1,106 What's inside IEMG holds 2,673 stocks across emerging markets, with a sector tilt toward technology (28%), financial services (21%), and consumer cyclicals (11%). Its larges...
MGM China Holdings press release ( MCHVY ): Q4 Non-GAAP EPS of $1.60. Revenue of $4.6B. More on MGM China Holdings Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on MGM China Holdings Historical earnings data for MGM China Holdings Dividend scorecard for MGM China Holdings Financial information for MGM China Holdings
MGM China Holdings press release ( MCHVY ): Q4 Non-GAAP EPS of $1.60. Revenue of $4.6B. More on MGM China Holdings Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on MGM China Holdings Historical earnings data for MGM China Holdings Dividend scorecard for MGM China Holdings Financial information for MGM China Holdings
Key Points CEO Kate Johnson bought half a million dollars of Lumen's stock yesterday. Shares had fallen following Tuesday's earnings release and volatility in the tech sector. Lumen has done a good job of paying down debt, but its overall revenue and profits continue to decline. 10 stocks we like better than Lumen Technologies › Shares of fiber network giant Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) rockete...
Key Points CEO Kate Johnson bought half a million dollars of Lumen's stock yesterday. Shares had fallen following Tuesday's earnings release and volatility in the tech sector. Lumen has done a good job of paying down debt, but its overall revenue and profits continue to decline. 10 stocks we like better than Lumen Technologies › Shares of fiber network giant Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) rocketed 29.2% on Friday. It was a big comeback for the stock, which had been decimated after its fourth-quarter earnings release on Tuesday afternoon. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » Today, the company disclosed that CEO Kate Johnson took the post-earnings sell-off as an opportunity to buy a cool half-million worth of stock, a trade that was executed yesterday. Johnson buys $500,000 Lumen's stock fell following Tuesday's earnings release, as fourth-quarter adjusted (non-GAAP) earnings per share came in ahead of expectations, while revenue only met expectations. Management also gave a full-year free cash flow outlook of $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion, though that included $300 million to $450 million in tax refunds that won't be repeated. While the quarterly figures and full-year guide may have been underwhelming, they also weren't a disaster. Lumen continues to post revenue and adjusted EBITDA declines, but that is because it also has many legacy products whose use is declining. Meanwhile, management estimates that about 47% of its enterprise revenue base is in newer, growing products, and this "growth" cohort grew 7% last year, even as overall revenue declined 9.5%. Still, Lumen's stock fell roughly 17% the next day. But Johnson showed confidence in her turnaround strategy after the sell-off. On Thursday, she bought 78,685 shares at an average price of $6.35 per share, totaling roughly $500,000. While the total purchase increased Johnson's direc...
Venzee Technologies ( VENZ:CA ) said on Friday that Hebe Chen has been appointed CFO, succeeding Darren Battersby, who will remain on the board of directors. Chen, who is currently a financial accountant with Digital Commerce Group, has worked with Venzee since 2024 through accounting services provided by Digital Commerce Payments. Shares -17.24%. More on Venzee Technologies Inc. Seeking Alpha’s Q...
Venzee Technologies ( VENZ:CA ) said on Friday that Hebe Chen has been appointed CFO, succeeding Darren Battersby, who will remain on the board of directors. Chen, who is currently a financial accountant with Digital Commerce Group, has worked with Venzee since 2024 through accounting services provided by Digital Commerce Payments. Shares -17.24%. More on Venzee Technologies Inc. Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Venzee Technologies Inc. Financial information for Venzee Technologies Inc.
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TMX Group press release ( TMXXF ): Q4 GAAP EPS of $0.60. Revenue of $457.8M. More on TMX Group Limited TMX Group: Not Cheap, But I Expect Strong Earnings Growth BeWhere Holdings launches C$4 million private placement Aurania to receive up to C$750,000 loan from CEO Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on TMX Group Limited Historical earnings data for TMX Group Limited
TMX Group press release ( TMXXF ): Q4 GAAP EPS of $0.60. Revenue of $457.8M. More on TMX Group Limited TMX Group: Not Cheap, But I Expect Strong Earnings Growth BeWhere Holdings launches C$4 million private placement Aurania to receive up to C$750,000 loan from CEO Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on TMX Group Limited Historical earnings data for TMX Group Limited
"Are We A Nation... Or A Market?" Heritage And Cato Square-Off In Right-Wing Think-Tank Infighting In last night’s ZeroHedge immigration debate, Simon Hankinson of the Heritage Foundation and David Bier of the Cato Institute offered sharply different policy prescriptions on the border, ICE, and H1B visas. A proponent of net subzero immigration, Hankinson emphasized national cohesion and first-worl...
"Are We A Nation... Or A Market?" Heritage And Cato Square-Off In Right-Wing Think-Tank Infighting In last night’s ZeroHedge immigration debate, Simon Hankinson of the Heritage Foundation and David Bier of the Cato Institute offered sharply different policy prescriptions on the border, ICE, and H1B visas. A proponent of net subzero immigration, Hankinson emphasized national cohesion and first-world culture while warning against treating people as interchangeable labor inputs. Bier, by contrast, defended the increasingly unpopular position of loosening immigration restrictions to allow a freer flow of individuals across the border. To Bier, who penned the above NYT op-ed late in Biden’s term, immigration is a question of individual liberty and voluntary association. Taking the pure libertarian perspective, he believes the government ought not have a role in job protectionism nor prohibiting an individual's movement. Below were the key exchanges for those short on time and listen to the full think tank v. think tank debate here: “Humans are not just labor units” Hankinson rejected the idea that immigration can be evaluated purely through economic efficiency or aggregate fiscal outcomes, arguing that such an approach strips the concept of nationhood of any substantive meaning. As he put it, “humans are not just work units…. If we don't care if it's, you know, Gustav or Jerry or Carlos or Charlie or Mohammed or Melvin, it's just how many widgets can you make in a day? How many cars can you make in a week?” and instead emphasized that immigrants ought to “know the language, the culture, the history, if you love the country, if you fight for it, if you'd send your kids to fight for it, or if you'd volunteer for the fire department.” “If none of that matters, if we're just labor units, then we should have unlimited immigration and there should be a free market.” pic.twitter.com/Yg0FwAsQAP — ZeroHedge Debates (@zerohedgeDebate) February 6, 2026 Immigrants are not assaulting...
HJBC/iStock Editorial via Getty Images It has been one year since I last covered Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY ), rating the stock a Hold . That article followed Q4 2024 earnings, when investors were spooked by declining 2025 guidance. Since then, the stock has returned 10%, lagging the S&P 500 and falling significantly in the interim, validating my cautious outlook. However, the narrative has shifte...
HJBC/iStock Editorial via Getty Images It has been one year since I last covered Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY ), rating the stock a Hold . That article followed Q4 2024 earnings, when investors were spooked by declining 2025 guidance. Since then, the stock has returned 10%, lagging the S&P 500 and falling significantly in the interim, validating my cautious outlook. However, the narrative has shifted. A recovery began to take hold in Q2 2024 and has accelerated since. The guidance that caused panic last year proved overly conservative: BMY delivered $48.2B in 2025 sales, handily beating management's ~$45.5B forecast. This outperformance fueled a strong rally in shares, that now trade 40% above 52-week lows, suggesting that current management prefers to under-promise and over-deliver. Yesterday, BMS reported Q4 2025 results that beat consensus estimates on the top and bottom-line. More importantly, 2026 guidance came in substantially higher than Wall Street estimates, proving that the growth portfolio is gaining momentum. My conclusion is that investor expectations are still too low, setting up BMS to outperform in 2026. Risks remain, most notably that several BMS drugs face loss of exclusivity (LOE), presenting investors with a deepening patent cliff by 2028. Eliquis faces generic competition in Europe this year, with the more significant US impact beginning in 2028. Further, Opdivo, the company's top PD-1 inhibitor, faces LOE in 2028 . A subcutaneous version named Qvantig has been FDA approved and may offset this. Together, Eliquis and Opdivo account for 48.5% of 2025 revenues. Consequentially, 2026 will be a year in which success or failure will be judged by clinical execution. The company has registrational data coming for seven clinical trials and pivotal data from two more. Thus, the bull case hinges on the pipeline's ability to bridge the 2028 gap. Buying the stock today is a bet on the pipeline. While BMY trades for only 9.6x 2026 non-GAAP EPS guidance, the rev...
For one week on Wall Street at least, steady real-economy assets beat software and speculation. An AI startup’s new tool to automate legal work captivated investors’ attention on Tuesday morning. By lunchtime, billions had been wiped out from software, finance and asset-management companies. Credit traders dumped technology debt. The daredevil set — Bitcoin , meme stocks , silver bets — got crushe...
For one week on Wall Street at least, steady real-economy assets beat software and speculation. An AI startup’s new tool to automate legal work captivated investors’ attention on Tuesday morning. By lunchtime, billions had been wiped out from software, finance and asset-management companies. Credit traders dumped technology debt. The daredevil set — Bitcoin , meme stocks , silver bets — got crushed together. What won instead: Wagers on homebuilders, trucking firms as well as wood and forestry companies. Risk-parity strategies, the kind of balanced but steady portfolios that had looked obsolete during the tech boom. Gold. Chalk up a victory then for the tangible trades. The trigger: Anthropic, a well-funded AI firm, released tools designed to automate legal and financial work, raising fears about which industries artificial intelligence would displace next. The market panic spread from information services to asset managers holding software debt to private credit markets, where technology borrowers had been gorging on cheap capital. The shock landed on markets already primed for a reversal. Bitcoin’s collapse was largely idiosyncratic — overleveraged positions as the cryptocurrency gave back gains dating to President Donald Trump ’s re-election. Silver and other consensus trades had been cracking for weeks as overcrowded bets were abandoned. The AI automation fear simply accelerated what was already in motion, crystallizing anxieties about valuations that had run too far and bets that had grown too popular. The common thread: software, crypto , and speculative bets, or assets that exist on screens, not in the physical world. “This is a clear rotation out of abstraction,” said Peter Atwater , founder of Financial Insyghts. “There are lots of parallels to what we saw in 2021. We race for futuristic abstraction at peaks in confidence, and flee from it in search of tangibility as confidence falls.” The S&P 500 ended a tumultuous week little changed, but speculative corne...
scanrail/iStock via Getty Images Verde Clean Fuels ( VGAS ) -6.9% post-market Friday after saying it has suspended development of its Permian Basin project, primarily due to changing market conditions driven by increasing demand for natural gas in the Permian . In 2024, Verde Clean Fuels ( VGAS ) and Diamondback Energy ( FANG ) subsidiary Cottonmouth Ventures entered into an agreement to jointly d...
scanrail/iStock via Getty Images Verde Clean Fuels ( VGAS ) -6.9% post-market Friday after saying it has suspended development of its Permian Basin project, primarily due to changing market conditions driven by increasing demand for natural gas in the Permian . In 2024, Verde Clean Fuels ( VGAS ) and Diamondback Energy ( FANG ) subsidiary Cottonmouth Ventures entered into an agreement to jointly develop a natural gas-to-gasoline plant in the Permian Basin utilizing Verde's STG+ technology and associated natural gas from Diamondback’s operations; the company then began development work on the project, which included a front-end engineering and design study that was completed in December 2025. Cottonmouth Ventures remains Verde's ( VGAS ) second largest shareholder and continues to support efforts to deploy the company's technology, Verde CEO Ernest Miller said. More on Verde Clean Fuels Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Verde Clean Fuels Financial information for Verde Clean Fuels
Is the stock's recent sell-off a buying opportunity? Maybe. Amazon's (AMZN 5.49%) earnings report on Thursday sent the stock lower, worsening an already difficult 2026 for the stock. Shares are now down more than 10% year to date. Investors were digesting the company's mind-boggling guidance for 2026 capital expenditures of about $200 billion. These aggressive investments will be driven, in large ...
Is the stock's recent sell-off a buying opportunity? Maybe. Amazon's (AMZN 5.49%) earnings report on Thursday sent the stock lower, worsening an already difficult 2026 for the stock. Shares are now down more than 10% year to date. Investors were digesting the company's mind-boggling guidance for 2026 capital expenditures of about $200 billion. These aggressive investments will be driven, in large part, by the company's effort to support fast-growing demand for its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS). But should the stock really be selling off because of these big investment plans? In the company's fourth-quarter earnings call, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared some great news about these investment plans -- words that may make a difference in the stock's investment thesis. Here's a look at Jassy's comments, as well as others he made about an important catalyst many investors may be overlooking. A $200 billion bet "Customers really want AWS for core and AI workloads," explained Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. "And we are monetizing capacity as fast as we can install it." But is this massive forecast for capital expenditures really bad news? After all, Jassy seems confident that the company can convert this spending into incremental profit over the long term. "We have deep experience understanding demand signals in the AWS business and then turning that capacity into strong return on invested capital," Jassy explained. In other words, Amazon's already fast-growing and diversified business likely has substantially more growth potential ahead -- for years to come. This is great news for investors. A $10 billion chips business A more overlooked comment from the earnings call that is worth a closer look is the CEO's remark about the company's chip business, which is growing even faster than its cloud business. "I think people know about our chips capability, our chips business, but I'm not sure folks realize how strong a chips company we've become over the last ten year...
Key Points Amazon's forecast for about $200 billion in capital expenditures in 2026 took Wall Street by surprise. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said he expects the company to earn a strong return on invested capital on its expenditures. The company's nascent chips business is growing at a blistering pace. 10 stocks we like better than Amazon › Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) earnings report on Thursday sent the s...
Key Points Amazon's forecast for about $200 billion in capital expenditures in 2026 took Wall Street by surprise. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said he expects the company to earn a strong return on invested capital on its expenditures. The company's nascent chips business is growing at a blistering pace. 10 stocks we like better than Amazon › Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) earnings report on Thursday sent the stock lower, worsening an already difficult 2026 for the stock. Shares are now down more than 10% year to date. Investors were digesting the company's mind-boggling guidance for 2026 capital expenditures of about $200 billion. These aggressive investments will be driven, in large part, by the company's effort to support fast-growing demand for its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS). But should the stock really be selling off because of these big investment plans? In the company's fourth-quarter earnings call, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared some great news about these investment plans -- words that may make a difference in the stock's investment thesis. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » Here's a look at Jassy's comments, as well as others he made about an important catalyst many investors may be overlooking. A $200 billion bet "Customers really want AWS for core and AI workloads," explained Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. "And we are monetizing capacity as fast as we can install it." But is this massive forecast for capital expenditures really bad news? After all, Jassy seems confident that the company can convert this spending into incremental profit over the long term. "We have deep experience understanding demand signals in the AWS business and then turning that capacity into strong return on invested capital," Jassy explained. In other words, Amazon's already fast-growing and diversified business likely has substantially more growth...