There’s a lot of disinformation going around about $META “cutting capex” because they “overbuilt”.
This is an “if” they have excess capacity.
And it looks like the opposite right now:
Hyperscalers like $GOOGL are so compute constrained that they had to cut allocations to Meta back in March.
Since Meta was using too much for internal projects.
Meta was immediately constrained so it looks like they were forced to immediately sign massive $48B+ contracts with Neoclouds like $CRWV and $NBIS.
Meta is selling excess capacity if there’s any, especially since their large contracts are take or pay from the Neoclouds.
If anything, I’m expecting their guided capex to go up as they build out more independent capacity.
메타의 초과 컴퓨팅 수요를 판매하겠다는 뉴스와 함께 반도체 주가가 급락 중 입니다.
저커버그가 이전에 “우리가 과잉 구축했다고 느끼는 시점에 도달한다면, 자원 임대와 같은 것이 우리가 취할 수 있는 선택지”라고 말했고, “바로 이점 덕분에 우리가 이 인프라를 계속 구축하는 데 자신감을 갖고 투자할 수 있는 것”이라고 말했습니다.
이 뉴스를 마켓이 CAPEX가 축소 된다고 반응하는 것이죠.
마켓에서 걱정하는 빅테크 자본지출에 대해 저커버그는 남으면 팔면 된다는 안전핀을 미리 깔아두는 발언을.. 수요 정점 임박의 신호로 읽는 건 아직 이르다고 판단됩니다.
반대로 부족한 연산용 컴퓨팅 자원을 판매하는 빅테크가 연산의 상인이 되는 수익 가시화를 보여주는 발언이니.. 이제 서로 윈윈하는 구조 아닌가요?
Technology CapEx spending is exploding:
The CapEx-to-Sales ratio of developed market tech firms is up to a record 11.5%.
Over the last 2 years, this percentage has risen +4 points, far outpacing any other 2-year increase in history.
To put this into perspective, the previous peaks seen in the 1990s and early 2000s were at 9.0% and 8.5%.
By comparison, the developed market excluding tech CapEx-to-Sales ratio stands at just 7.0%, below its own long-term average.
The AI buildout is also driving investment spending higher in other sectors, with utilities now leading at a CapEx-to-Sales ratio of ~23%, well above its long-term average of ~15%.
The AI investment boom is reshaping capital allocation across the entire economy.
The US stock market is rewriting every record in the financial history books:
The top 10 US stocks now have a combined market cap of $25.3 trillion.
If the top 10 were a stock market, they would be the 2nd-largest in the world, even exceeding China.
The top 10 US stocks' market value is also larger than China's GDP of $19.4 trillion, the world’s 2nd-biggest economy.
Together, these companies are now worth ~80% of US GDP.
Furthermore, the top 5 companies alone have a combined market cap of $18.6 trillion, exceeding the value of every global stock market outside the US.
Truly unprecedented numbers.