Microsoft Is Down 24% This Year While Spending $30B a Quarter on AI [Yahoo! Finance]
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growing 39%, but capital expenditures surged 66% to $37.5B and are projected to reach $146B for fiscal 2026, sparking investor concerns about whether spending is outpacing returns. Microsoft announced a hiring freeze across its cloud and sales units as the stock slides 24% year-to-date, driven by debate over whether massive AI infrastructure spending will ultimately deliver justified returns despite a $625B commercial remaining performance obligation backlog. Have You read The New Report Shaking Up Retirement Plans ? Americans are answering three questions and many are realizing they can retire earlier than expected. One of the largest tech names the world has ever known , Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT ) sits at the center of one of tech investing's biggest debates: whether its AI infrastructure bet is genius or a capital allocation problem the market is pricing in. Shares are down 24% year-to-date, tracking toward the worst quarterly performance since the 2008 financial crisis, even af
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