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What's behind the pullback that we're seeing? Is the sell off overblown? Well, right now, the market a few weeks ago hit a peak, and we seem to be struggling to regain traction. The fears of the data center build out and the spending, the impact on debt and balance sheets and cash flow is really giving the markets some pause. Roughly speaking, over the last 18 months, hyperscalers and AI infrastructure companies have taken on about 3/4 of $1 trillion in debt to try to raise capital for the data center buildout. They're using their free cash flow to do this. The new debt load is also impairing their free cash flow. They're having to divert cash flow to debt maintenance. went from being way up here to way down there. And that's really, really a scary thing for investors, especially in the near term. It's certainly a headwind for market sentiment and for share price action. Is there a long term payout for these companies? Will it pay off in the future? That's the biggest question that every investor has. There is a risk because it is a lot of cash. It all comes down execution. They need to be able to build out these systems and bring them online and then to monetize them. Risky, yes, but it's an execution story. The risk will be reflected in, you know, periodic price corrections. Not so much in stock price implosions. I think over time, these companies will continue. All of the spending, all of this new debt, this data center build out isn't in the hopes of business coming. It's to fulfill business that has been contracted. while the debt has been blossoming, the backlogs for all these companies has been blossoming at an accelerated pace. Amongst hyperscalers, AI infrastructure companies from chips through the nuts through GPU as a rental companies is about 2.1 trillion. That's about three times the debt raise. So the long term outlook to convert that debt into this revenue, which is three times as much. So we're looking at robust growth over the next few years. At the same time, debt levels will come down, growth will be accelerated. They'll be able to start re-accelerating share buybacks. So to me, the long term outlook for AI speaking is very, very robust. Oracle is one of poster children for this story. It has really been leaning hard into debt, but it's also got one of the most aggressively growing backlogs. For me, Oracle is one of the premier stories here, they're going to start recognizing their backlog as revenue beginning next year and ramping that over the next few quarters. And that's really going to, you know, real fast. It has moved so much in both directions. But which way is it headed next? Do you think that this is the start of a potential deeper downtrend for the stock? Or is it a good bottom that investors should look at buying? Well, this is not the start of a downtrend. Absolutely a buying opportunity. The amount of stock price pressure that we've seen this year will be reversed and reflected in stock price increases in the upcoming years. I think that tech stocks have a long, bright future ahead of them, especially the blue chip operators. They definitely have the money and the scope to make it all happen.