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While there is no shortage of geopolitical news upon which we can focus today \u2013 more nighttime strikes<\/a> in the Persian Gulf followed by threats to attack Iran\u2019s Kharg Island<\/a> tonight \u2013 that does not appear to be the main focus for traders today.\u00a0 If oil traders thought that the President was serious about that threat, those futures would be up sharply, not be roughly unchanged.\u00a0 Instead, let\u2019s take another look at one of today\u2019s biggest movers: Oracle (ORCL), which is dropping more than 10% despite solid earnings and guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have written numerous times about the necessary and sufficient conditions for a stock to rally after a quarterly report.  It is necessary for EPS to exceed the published analyst consensus, but insufficient on its own.  Positive guidance is the sufficient condition.  After yesterday\u2019s close, ORCL reported fiscal Q4 EPS of $2.11 (excluding items, of course), which nicely surpassed the $1.97 analyst consensus.  Check.  Guidance was decent.  Total cloud revenue is projected to jump by 61%, a shade below the 62% average of analysts’ expectations.  That\u2019s a slight miss, but on a huge number.  Bookings, most of which are for long-term, large-scale AI contracts, were $638 billion, well ahead of the estimated $589.5 billion.  That seemingly should outweigh the ever-so-modest shortfall in revenue guidance. Unfortunately, this points to the root of ORCL\u2019s decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those bookings require data centers and the equipment necessary to fill them.  Regarding that, the company said, \u201cThis substantially reduces the amount of capital Oracle must raise to build out our AI data centers.\u201d  Therein lies the problem \u2013 the company plans to raise another $40 billion in debt and equity in the coming fiscal year.  And, as we noted last autumn<\/a>, the main customer of those data centers requiring that buildout is OpenAI.  Even then it was not clear how a money-losing startup might be able to meet its spending commitments, and that was before Anthropic seemed to be surpassing the company that brought agentic AI to the masses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investors love the idea of AI-related spending, but they\u2019re a bit squeamish about the copious debt and equity that are affbeing raised to fund it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stock prices of the beneficiaries of the largesse are vastly outpacing those of the spenders.  There are various ways that we can portray the outperformance, but a simple way is to chart the Nasdaq 100 (NDX), which is dominated by AI behemoths, versus the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX).  Certainly there is considerable overlap between the two \u2013 semiconductor manufacturers Nvidia (NVDA) and Micron Technology (MU) are the largest and fourth-largest components of NDX \u2013 but mega-spenders like Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), and Meta Platforms (META) represent about 20% of NDX and 0% of SOX.  (Interestingly, NYSE-listed ORCL is a component of neither.)  Consider that SOX is up about 3.5% today, undoubtedly aided by ORCL\u2019s affirmation of continued spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6-Months, NDX (red\/green daily candles), SOX (blue line)<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Source: Interactive Brokers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This leads us to two key points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First<\/strong>, because many of the best performing stocks and sectors are recipients of copious AI-related spending, investors are increasingly dependent upon that tsunami of money.  At the same time, however, investors seem to be souring \u2013 at least relatively speaking \u2013 on the companies that are selling shares and borrowing.  What might happen, therefore, if some of those mega-spenders decide to listen to the message that investors are sending them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My nightmare scenario<\/strong>, which I raised at a recent event, is that Alphabet\u2019s Sundar Pichai or Microsoft\u2019s Satya Nadella wakes up one morning and decides that he should take a breather from throwing endless amounts of money at all things AI.  The faucet wouldn\u2019t need to be turned off completely or even slowed to a trickle; it would just need to be turned down from full blast.  The reaction from the wide range of companies that benefit from that spending would be huge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second<\/strong>, now that some of these companies are switching to equity funding alongside debt, we risk upending a supply\/demand dynamic that has benefitted equities for several years.  The overall supply of stock has been stable to negative for years, thanks to private equity buyouts and persistent buybacks.  Now we find ourselves in a situation where a combination of announced and rumored stock sales disrupts that dynamic.  Digesting that supply might simply be a \u201cpig in a python\u201d problem for now but is one that requires consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oracle of Delphi<\/a> was believed to deliver prophecies from the Greek god Apollo.  We need to hope that its namesake, ORCL, is offering a murky, not an ominous, prophecy today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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