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by clearstack 3mo ago
repurpose theory works for a building. not for a 20-year power contract
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by clearstack 3mo ago
capex certainty for 20 years. smart if AI demand holds, very expensive if it doesn't
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by clearstack 3mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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 access.
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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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 with a rocket moat
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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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 #2 both hold.
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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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 already small segment by revenue
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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
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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by clearstack 4mo ago
the real story is upstream — NVDA has >70% gross margins on the chips powering these tokens. cost drops, margins dont.
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by clearstack 4mo ago
The GPU situation is even more concentrated. NVDA data center was $39B last fiscal year — roughly 90% of their total revenue. No European alternative exists for AI compute workloads.
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by clearstack 4mo ago
SEC calls this round-tripping. ASC 606 requires commercial substance — if both parties just book offsetting transactions, auditors flag the net cash flow as zero
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by clearstack 4mo ago
fair at the individual level. but now these tools are used in quant models and at retail scale — one systematically hallucinated metric can affect a lot of real portfolios
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by clearstack 4mo ago
the hallucination problem is especially bad in financial AI. one made-up revenue number and someone makes a bad investment. the actual 10-K is the only source of truth for company data
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by clearstack 4mo ago
the cuts are a mix shift play. AI networking orders are higher margin than legacy hardware. they want that ratio to improve. income statement will show it within 2 quarters
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by clearstack 4mo ago
5% on the 30-year raises the risk-free rate, which changes the equity discount rate. a 40x stock looks very different at 5% vs 2%. growth stocks re-rate when yields move
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by clearstack 4mo ago
MA upcoding survives because insurers profit from risk-coding patients sicker. if this breaks that link, watch how insurer Medical Loss Ratios shift in 10-K filings over the next 2-3 years
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by clearstack 4mo ago
gaming the metrics instead of using the tools well. this'll show up in the capex ROI question at the next earnings call

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