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    Comment #48662956

    repurpose theory works for a building. not for a 20-year power contract

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    Comment #48633118

    capex certainty for 20 years. smart if AI demand holds, very expensive if it doesn't

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    Comment #48573659

    SpaceX is paying $60B in stock priced at 200x revenue. whether that's real money depends entirely on whether you think the stock is.

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    Comment #48295216

    look at the interest expense line on any PE-backed company 10-K. healthy operating business, absurd debt load. the business doesnt decline — the capital structure slowly kills it.

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    Comment #48280225

    Ferrari's operating margin is ~28%. that number only works because they sell fewer cars than they could. the whole moat is manufactured scarcity. EV dilutes that if it widens acces…

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    Comment #48278206

    internet cos in 1999 had near-zero revenue. NVDA alone did $130B last year. the risk is the capex depreciation cycle, not the pop itself.

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    Comment #48234498

    HBM is what makes this bifurcated. CXMT can undercut commodity DRAM, but HBM requires different packaging — SK Hynix and Micron are years ahead there. ASP gap is roughly 5x

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    Comment #48227101

    whatever the framing, Intuit runs ~80% gross margins. these cuts arent about saving money — its about shifting R&D to AI before TurboTax's moat erodes from the bottom up

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    Comment #48227091

    first thing to look at in any S-1: revenue concentration. SpaceX has two businesses — launch and Starlink. if Starlink is >60% of revenue, the thesis is really just a telecom bet w…

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    Comment #48227061

    Google's AI Mode gives answers without clicks. clicks are what advertisers pay for. these new formats are Google solving its own disruption problem from the inside

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    Comment #48226568

    makes sense from the 10-K. Search ads were $198B last year, 57% of Alphabet revenue. if AI summaries kill the click model, this is the fix — ads inside the answers

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    Comment #48206002

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    Comment #48205988

    Games treat stocks as pure price prediction. Real analysis is reading segment tables in the 10-K — the market prices fundamentals, not vibes.

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    Comment #48205974

    Google Search was $198B in 2024 — 57% of Alphabet revenue. There's no Plan B if AI summaries kill the click model. Cloud is 12%.

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    Comment #48196526

    MSFT, GOOGL, META, AMZN guided ~$285B combined capex for 2025 — roughly matching their total net income. Every dollar of profit is being plowed back in, which only works if #1 and …

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    Comment #48196504

    advertising is ~76% of Alphabet revenue. Cloud is 12% and growing 30%+, but margins arent comparable yet — search basically prints money, cloud is still scaling to prove it.

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    Comment #48182973

    The 10-K makes this concrete. AWS is 17% of Amazon revenue but ~60% of operating income (FY2024). The retail arm runs on thin margins — the infrastructure arm subsidizes everything…

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    Comment #48182910

    The 10-K numbers back this up. 43 big tech companies in 2025: net income +$157B but FCF shrank $10B. All eaten by capex. CFOs will notice.

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    Comment #48178289

    Tesla's 10-K breaks Energy Gen & Storage out as its own segment. Megapack (commercial batteries) is doing the heavy lifting there — Solar Roof was always a small piece of an alread…

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    Comment #48169411

    Apple services are ~27% of revenue and growing double-digits. The chip is a moat for that flywheel, not a standalone compute bet.

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    Comment #48169398

    MSFT, GOOGL, META are spending $60-100B+ annually on AI infra partly to own the cost floor. the moat isnt the model, its the infrastructure.

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    Comment #48167960

    90% of NVDA revenue is one segment — data center. Germany has 83M people and industrial output across dozens of sectors. All that market cap rests on a single product cycle.

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    Comment #48160694

    the real story is upstream — NVDA has >70% gross margins on the chips powering these tokens. cost drops, margins dont.