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Investors Hated This Amazon Announcement in February. Now It Looks Genius.

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“Amazon's trailing-12-month free cash flow peaked at $53 billion in mid-2024.”
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  • Mythos is too dangerous to release to the public; it will instead be offered with limited access to select enterprises to secure their codebases before any broader release.

    60% confidence
  • Amazon stock is still fairly attractive at the current price given the long-term opportunity to accelerate AWS and produce massive free cash flow by the end of the decade.

    60% confidence
  • A $1,000 investment in Apple when Stock Advisor doubled down in 2008 would be worth $51,615 as of April 26, 2026.

    60% confidence
  • Amazon's $200 billion capex plan is not a top-line revenue grab; management has confidence the investments will yield strong returns on invested capital.

    60% confidence
  • Over the long run, Amazon should generate even more free cash flow than before the AI investment cycle, exceeding the prior TTM peak of $53 billion reached in mid-2024.

    60% confidence
  • Much of AWS capex expected to be spent in 2026 will be monetized in 2027-2028, and Amazon already has customer commitments covering a substantial portion of that capex.

    60% confidence
  • AWS's AI-specific revenue reached a $15 billion annual run rate earlier in 2026 and is growing extremely quickly.

    60% confidence
  • A $1,000 investment in Nvidia when Stock Advisor doubled down in 2009 would be worth $540,224 as of April 26, 2026.

    60% confidence
  • A $1,000 investment in Netflix when Stock Advisor doubled down in 2004 would be worth $498,522 as of April 26, 2026.

    60% confidence
  • Amazon is monetizing AWS capacity as quickly as it is installed.

    60% confidence
  • Amazon's massive jump in capex spending in 2026 could result in negative free cash flow for the business in 2026.

    60% confidence

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High-profile departures at top AI labs — Brad Lightcap's exit from OpenAI and an unnamed researcher's departure from Alphabet/Google that triggered a share-price drop — are surfacing talent retention as a market risk factor even as hyperscalers pour record capital into AI infrastructure. The reaction shows investors treating key-person risk at frontier AI labs as material to valuation, a new fragility layered onto an otherwise bullish AI-driven capex cycle.
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Broadcom Inc.
Both facts report EPS for Broadcom Inc. for the same fiscal period (Q1 2026) observed on the same date (2026-02-01). However, they report conflicting values: 1.5 USD per share vs 2.05 USD per share. This is a 37% difference for the identical metric and time period, not a value change over time.
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