Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Says Wall Street Underrates AI Hyperscalers
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Bill Ackman's Pershing Square argued in its third-quarter shareholder letter that Wall Street is overly focused on the infrastructure costs of major technology companies while ignoring their long-term growth potential. While semiconductor and hardware stocks surged 44% and 36% respectively this year, giants like Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet saw their shares rise by an average of just 8%, despite delivering 27% earnings growth. Pershing Square believes investors are misinterpreting soaring capital expenditures, which are projected to hit $740 billion in 2026 for the four tech leaders. The investment firm contends that these aggressive investments are offensive moves that leverage unrivaled distribution networks, proprietary data, and massive scale to accelerate future revenue and cash flows.
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Pershing Square diagnosed that Wall Street is excessively penalizing major cloud companies by focusing solely on their AI infrastructure investment costs, overlooking their steep future growth potential and earnings power. Major big tech companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet saw earnings grow by 27%, yet their stock prices rose by an average of only 8%, highlighting valuation attractiveness. Accordingly, investors should move past short-term capital expenditure (capex) concerns and focus on long-term monetization potential.
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- Semiconductors — Demand for related chips and hardware is surging due to the expansion of AI infrastructure building, directly benefiting from it, such as the S&P 500 Semiconductor Index rising 44% this year.
- AI — Large-scale AI investments by big tech such as Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are leading to actual revenue growth in AWS and ad targeting, driving long-term growth.
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According to Pershing Square's analysis, semiconductor and hardware supplier stocks surged 44% and 36% respectively this year, while big tech stocks showed a slowdown. This is because market concerns over AI infrastructure investment costs, which are set to increase to $740 billion by 2026, have driven down price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios. However, these expenditures are not mere defense but a groundwork for aggressive growth, as proven by the actual revenue growth of AWS and Meta.
In the upcoming bullish scenario, the monetization of big tech's AI investments will materialize and valuations will recover, whereas in the bearish scenario, astronomical capex could act as a short-term margin pressure, causing stock price stagnation to persist. Key monitoring indicators are big tech's AI-related cloud revenue growth rates and free cash flow (FCF) trends.
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