capex

Amazon’s Q2 results forced a recalibration: the cloud unit that once underwrote Amazon’s long-term bets is still massive, but its growth and margins are under pressure in an AI-driven market that increasingly rewards integrated, productized models over raw compute capacity. The data from Q2 —...

Microsoft's Q2 results and the wave of new analyst targets have crystallized a central tension: the company’s AI and cloud fundamentals are powerful and accelerating, yet the market’s price expectations and margin realities send mixed signals about how fast that promise will convert into durable...

The largest technology companies are weathering a volatile market not because the case for them is uncomplicated, but because the economics of artificial intelligence have tilted the strategic balance in their favor: giant, cash-rich platforms can underwrite the infrastructure, talent and...

Microsoft’s latest quarterly report confirms what investors and enterprise customers have been sensing for months: cloud and AI are not just growth drivers — they are the engine reshaping Microsoft’s business and the broader enterprise landscape. In the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025...

Amazon’s cloud engine is still humming, but the tempo has slowed: the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit reported mid‑teens growth in its most recent quarter while rivals logged dramatically higher expansion, a gap that spooked investors, sharpened questions about AWS’s AI strategy, and...

The global infrastructure-as-a-service market surged again in 2024, with the three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud — together capturing roughly seven out of every ten dollars spent on cloud infrastructure, as enterprises pour capital into AI-optimized...

Microsoft faces a challenging moment as growing tariff uncertainties and rising bond yields are now casting shadows over its aggressive capital expenditure plans. Wedbush Securities, led by analyst Dan Ives, has recently raised concerns over what it terms “capex headwinds” — a consequence of the...

Microsoft’s aggressive capital spending on data centers and AI infrastructure has once again drawn sharp scrutiny from Wall Street, as Wedbush analysts slash their target price in the face of mounting CapEx warnings. The tech giant’s ambitious investment plans—which include an eye-watering $80...