Helena Wright
Helena Wright
South Africa
๐Ÿ“‰ ๐™ˆ๐™Ž๐™๐™: ๐™๐™๐™š "๐˜พ๐™–๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ญ ๐™๐™š-๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ž๐™˜๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ" ๐˜ฟ๐™ž๐™ฅ โ€” ๐˜พ๐™ง๐™ž๐™จ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ง ๐™‚๐™š๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ-๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™›๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฎ? We just witnessed one of the roughest months for Microsoft ($MSFT (Microsoft)) in years, with the stock more than 20% down into a textbook bear market. If you look at the market pricing, sentiment has completely flipped from absolute AI hype to panic. But as value-focused or long-term investors, this is exactly the kind of volatility we look for. Letโ€™s separate the short-term market noise from the long-term underlying fundamentals. ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿงฑ ๐™’๐™๐™ฎ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ง๐™ ๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™‹๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™˜-๐™Ž๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ? The entire selloff boils down to the $190 Billion projected Capital Expenditure (Capex) to build out massive AI infrastructure and data centers. The pricing of MSFT has changed from a high-margin, asset-light software compounder to a capital-heavy utility or industrial infrastructure company. Investors are panicking about a near-term squeeze on free cash flow. ๐Ÿ“Š ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ ๐˜พ๐™๐™š๐™˜๐™ : ๐™‡๐™ค๐™ค๐™  ๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ Infrastructure spending is only a risk if you are building "on hope." But Microsoft isn't guessing โ€” they are fulfilling actual, massive, pre-funded demand: โ€ข Azure Growth: Cloud revenue is still growing at 40% year-over-year. โ€ข Commercial Backlog: Microsoft's contracted backlog sits at a mind-boggling $627 Billion. That means more than two full years of total corporate revenue is already locked into contracts. โ€ข AI Run Rate: Their enterprise AI business alone has already crossed a $37 Billion annualized run rate. โ€ข Electricity: A 20-year 2.67-gigawatt power agreement was concluded with Chevron to col-locate natural gas power directly with AI data centers. The money being spent on data centers today is directly building the pipelines for revenue that is already contracted for tomorrow. ๐Ÿท๏ธ ๐™‘๐™–๐™ก๐™ช๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ PE: Because of this dip, MSFT is trading at roughly 20x to 21x forward earnings.We have not seen Microsoft this cheap relative to its structural growth potential since late 2016. The valuation multiple is nearly 35% below its recent 3-year historical average. DCF: In the table the potential upside per the DCF is 28% with a safety margin. Dividend: MSFT has a dividend yield of 0.9%. For patient, long-term copy-traders and allocators, this structural re-pricing is creating a highly attractive risk/reward window to build or compound a position. ๐Ÿ“ข ๐™’๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™š? Are you ๐Ÿ”ด Selling the risk, ๐ŸŸก Holding through the cycle, or ๐ŸŸข Aggressively buying the dip? Drop your thoughts below! $MSFT $SP500 $GOOG (Alphabet)
Not investment advice. The author may have financial interests in the mentioned instruments.
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