A.I. Capex is the name of the game when it comes to next week's Mag 7 earnings reports from Meta Platforms (META), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Amazon (AMZN). Jason Ware sees relative value in GOOGL, and isn't spooked by AMZN reporting on Halloween.
Recently, Zacks.com users have been paying close attention to Amazon (AMZN). This makes it worthwhile to examine what the stock has in store.
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Cathie Wood and Warren Buffett have a particular "Magnificent Seven" stock in common.
Amazon's stock is up 14.42% since summer, driven by strong performance in AWS and resilient consumer spending in its retail division. Amazon's focus on cost-cutting through long-term optimizations, including investing in mini nuclear reactors, aims to make AWS more efficient and lower energy costs. The investment in nuclear energy is expected to provide a stable, lower-cost power supply, enhancing AWS's competitive moat and improving profitability.
The analysts I work with use disciplined financial science to identify blue-chip bargains with Buffett-like return potential. Nick Ward's top 5 blue-chip picks for October, including Amazon and Realty Income, offer a potential 48% upside in the next year and 108% in five years. These five stocks are 29% historically undervalued, featuring, A-credit ratings, and risk management in the top 21% of global companies, ensuring dependable dividends and robust growth.
Though Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) growth in 2024 is indisputable – particularly as the stock reached a new all-time high (ATH) earlier in the year – the performance has been anything but smooth.
Amazon's advertising segment is becoming increasingly important for the stock performance, as can be seen after Q2 2024 earnings. Amazon has broken the digital advertising duopoly of Google and Meta, but it will need to sustain a good growth rate to improve the sentiment towards the stock. There has been a massive investment in AI chips, and good AI tools for advertisers is the quickest way to gain good returns from the investment in these expensive chips.
Hopefully, its customers haven't gotten too attached to a program that's supposedly being jettisoned by management.
The AI boom is driving massive electricity demand, necessitating modernized data centers and partnerships, like Dominion Energy's with Amazon or Constellation Energy's with Microsoft, to meet future power needs. Dominion's strategic partnerships and investments in nuclear energy, including Small Modular Reactors, position it to capitalize on AI-driven electricity demand growth. With ongoing developments in AI and energy sectors, D is well-positioned to benefit from increased power demand and green energy initiatives.
Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Investment Management, is well-known for her focus on small- and mid-cap technology stocks. She came to fame after Ark Innovation ETF ARKK delivered a remarkable 73% return in 2020.
Nuclear power appears to be making a comeback in the U.S. after years of setbacks — and big tech is the driving force. As tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon and Google compete to take the lead in the AI revolution, the data centers needed to power the burgeoning technology consume an ever-increasing amount of energy.