Microsoft Extends Gains 3% — Why Hasn't the Earnings Rally Ended?

Microsoft closed up 3.02% on Friday, extending its post-earnings strength as sell-side analysts catalogued three reasons the results drove the stock higher. LinkedIn delivered solid quarterly revenue growth, reinforcing Microsoft's positioning as having the clearest AI monetization path. Valuations have returned to elevated levels after consecutive gains, while the broader large-cap tech sector is undergoing an AI capital reallocation of roughly $2 trillion. Now that the leader has proven capex is working, what drives the next leg up?

avatarangeldevil
08-04 22:31
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avatarShyon
08-04 10:27
I think the backdrop has become more supportive for technology stocks. Lower oil prices are easing inflation concerns, the stronger yen has reduced liquidity stress, and strong earnings from Microsoft $Microsoft(MSFT)$ and Amazon $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ show that AI investment is generating real business value. That gives me more confidence after the recent pullback. I'm not expecting every AI stock to rally equally. The market is becoming more selective, rewarding companies that can turn AI spending into revenue, profits, and cash flow. I believe the best opportunities remain with businesses that have clear monetization paths. I'm staying invested and will continue adding to high-quality AI names on weakne
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avatarKipbana
08-03 21:19
What do you mean how far can the tech rally run? It’s at the bottom.
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avatarAI_FocusedTrader
08-03 20:57

📊 Institutions Just Flipped, AMZN Going to Break ATH— Are You Following?

After 3 consecutive weeks of selling, US equity funds saw +$11.83B inflow last week — the largest since June 24. Tech alone soaked up $4.9B. $Goldman Sachs(GS)$ Prime data shows that hedge funds resumed heavy buying of US tech stocks last week! Several key data points are worth noting, which I've listed below: US information technology sector saw net buying for the second consecutive week; From July 24th to 30th, weekly net buying amounted to approximately 3.5% of the total market capitalization of the tech sector; The buying pace was the fastest since December 2022, reaching an intensity of +1.9 standard deviations over the past year; Software, semiconductor equipment, and tech hardware were the three sectors with the largest inflow
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📊 Institutions Just Flipped, AMZN Going to Break ATH— Are You Following?
avatarTiger_comments
08-03 19:44

Oil Pulls Back, the Yen Rebounds, and AI Earnings Improve: How Far Can the Tech Rally Run?

Global risk sentiment improved today. Oil prices continued to retreat, easing concerns about energy-driven inflation and higher interest rates. The yen strengthened sharply as intervention expectations grew, temporarily reducing the risk of disorderly currency moves. Strong earnings from Microsoft and Amazon also gave investors more confidence that some AI spending is already producing revenue. Several pressures that had weighed on technology stocks are now easing at the same time. The next test is whether this rebound can gain sustained support from earnings, cash flow and the macro environment. 1. Lower oil gives growth stocks some breathing room The earlier surge in oil prices raised concerns that energy costs would push inflation higher again and reduce the Federal Reserve’s room to ea
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Oil Pulls Back, the Yen Rebounds, and AI Earnings Improve: How Far Can the Tech Rally Run?
avatarRJ C
08-03 18:29
Positive signs to stop war for a while 
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avatarMarktomarket
08-03 14:45

Apple Wrote the Cheque. The Market Won't Let Micron Cash It.

$Apple(AAPL)$ fell 7.35 per cent on Friday, the only mega-cap to drop hard. The same day, $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ rose 15.32 per cent and $Alphabet(GOOG)$ 6.88 per cent. I left a question hanging last time. Tim Cook's line — memory is tight, it will hit next quarter — went into Apple's guidance, and it went into somebody's revenue too. Friday answered. It answered half. Apple's column got copied down; the column belonging to whoever collects the money got rubbed out. $Micron Technology(MU)$ -5.90%, $SanDisk Cor
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Apple Wrote the Cheque. The Market Won't Let Micron Cash It.
avatarangeldevil
08-02 17:10
$MSFT 20271217 400.0 CALL$ msft have show an excellent earnings report and assured investors by holding the line on its AI capital expenditure. I think this is the one of the reason of its surge. As you see google result is impressive however investor punish because of its expenditure of capex causing negative on cashflow
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avatarMojoStellar
08-01
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avatarPuts puts puts
08-01
$Microsoft(MSFT)$  Microsoft proving that its artificial intelligence capital expenditures are generating direct cloud growth effectively broke the market downward trend by easing fears around wasteful tech spending. Demonstrating actual revenue monetization allowed Microsoft to restore investor confidence in the broader technology sector where heavy spending previously triggered selloffs. However, sustaining this momentum throughout the rest of earnings season requires other mega cap peers to validate their own return on investment. Until broader macroeconomic clarity and additional tech earnings confirm consistent cross sector demand, expect the rally to evolve into selective stock picking rather than an uninterrupted broad market surge.
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avatarHawS
08-01
$MSFT 20261218 380.0 CALL$  $Microsoft(MSFT)$  I have been holding this for a long time, and finally it rewarded well. [Miser]  [Happy]   
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07-31

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07-31
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07-31

[Winning Trade] Microsoft Soars 15%, Five Tigers Make Over US$41K

Microsoft surged 15% after delivering stronger-than-expected quarterly results, as robust Azure growth helped ease concerns over the company’s massive AI spending. Several Tiger traders caught the rally. $Microsoft(MSFT)$ 👏 Congrats to @Aaronykc, who bought the dip in Microsoft and made US$9,901! 👏 Congrats to @3i4i592654, who made US$9,017! 👏 Congrats to @Terra_Incognita, who made US$9,005! 👏 Congrats to @xiaomaoyizi , who made US$6,538! 👏 Congrats to
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avatarkoolgal
07-31
🌟🌟🌟I choose Route A: Cloud Platforms - Microsoft, Amazon as the most compelling and fundamentally sound choice following the dramatic earnings results of these 2 companies. The recent divergence proved that Wall Street is ruthlessly shifting away from open ended "cake drawing" promises and demanding immediate,  monetized proof of cash flow. The reality of this earnings cycle is that enterprise cloud infrastructure has a rapid and highly visible payback loop. The proof is in the numbers when $Microsoft(MSFT)$ Azure surged 40% & $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ AWS Cloud sales boomed by an explosive 37%.  This proves that businesses are paying cold hard cash right now to rent computing power and adopt AI
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avatarMasterWU
07-31

MSFT: Can the New Bull Begins?

Hello everyoned! Today i want to share some trading ideas with you! 1 Today, $Microsoft(MSFT)$'s gigantic gap-up confirms one thing, again--that SMA-200 LINE [the black line on the daily chart] is the most important cutoff line for bulls and bears--if lost, then a lengthy decline process; if regained, then a new bull market begins.
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MSFT: Can the New Bull Begins?
avatarMarktomarket
07-31

One Sentence:Apple Books It as Cost, SanDisk Books It as Revenue.

$Apple(AAPL)$ beat on revenue for its fiscal third quarter and fell 5.74 per cent after hours. Once the same call had wrapped up, $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ rose 4.61 per cent in extended hours and $SK hynix(SKHY)$ 3.76 per cent. Between the two sits a single remark from Tim Cook: memory supply is tight, it will hit next quarter, and the company is stockpiling hard to get ahead of significant supply constraints. On Apple's books that sentence is a cost. On a memory maker's books it is revenue. One fact, two income statements, opposite signs. Before we put the whole 5.74 per cent on that one line: the same results missed
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One Sentence:Apple Books It as Cost, SanDisk Books It as Revenue.
avatarChocsworld
07-31
👍 Microsoft surges!
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avatarYoung_on_stocks
07-31

AI Spending Is No Longer Enough: Microsoft Won, Meta Lost, Amazon Complicated the Story

This earnings season made one thing very clear: Wall Street is not turning bearish on AI. It is simply becoming much more selective about who deserves to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on it. Microsoft surged nearly 16%. Meta fell roughly 8%. Amazon delivered an enormous earnings beat, but the quality of that beat was more complicated than the headline suggested. All three companies are spending aggressively on AI. The difference is how quickly that spending is turning into revenue and cash flow. Microsoft Proved AI Can Generate Cash $Microsoft(MSFT)$ delivered the cleanest answer. Quarterly revenue reached $90 billion, Azure grew 43%, and management expects cloud growth to accelerate to approximately 45% next quarter. The c
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AI Spending Is No Longer Enough: Microsoft Won, Meta Lost, Amazon Complicated the Story