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Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Monday: JPMorgan upgrades Eastman Chemical to overweight from neutral JPMorgan said it sees an earnings rebound for Eastman Chemical. Bank of America reiterates Roku Bank of America said it's standing by its buy rating heading into earnings later this week. JPMorgan downgrades Olin to neutral from overweight JPMorgan downgraded the chemical company citing concerns about reduced product demand. " JPMorgan downgrades Valley National to neutral from overweight JPMorgan downgraded the regional bank mainly on valuation. Bank of America initiates Cooper Companies as buy Bank of America said the contact lens company is well positioned. "
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Microsoft and Google, the next two biggest American cloud providers, also saw cloud revenue growth rates slow this year. Microsoft Azure and other cloud services saw revenue growth of 29%, down from 35% this time last year. Wall Street has been hopeful that generative AI will provide a much-needed revenue boost for the big three cloud providers. The one exception is Microsoft, which has spent billions investing in generative AI startup OpenAI, maker of the chatbot ChatGPT. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stressed on the earnings call Thursday that generative AI is still in its "early days."
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Rates of cloud-computing sales growth slowed to historical lows this year as customers slashed IT budgets. Microsoft and Google, the next two biggest American cloud providers, also saw rates of cloud-revenue growth slow this year. Microsoft's Azure and other cloud services saw revenue growth of 29%, down from 35% this time last year. Google this week reported a 22% year-over-year increase in cloud revenue the past quarter, down from 28% the previous quarter. The company attributed this to customer "optimization," or looking for ways to save money on cloud services.
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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThere's been 'tremendous interest' in everything we've been doing in AI, Microsoft saysEric Boyd, corporate vice president of AI platform at Microsoft, discusses the Microsoft 365 Copilot and what the company is doing to enable productivity through artificial intelligence.
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Despite the promise of generative AI to turbo-charge cloud computing sales, growth rates in the sector remains stalled for Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. All three cloud providers reported this week that cloud customers are still scrutinizing their IT budgets amid a shaky global economy. Cloud sales growth rates stalled this year as customers navigated rising inflation and destabilizing geopolitical conflicts. The company told investors the stalled growth was due to "customer optimization efforts" — a nicer word for cost-cutting. At the same time last year, Amazon Web Services sales were growing by more than double that rate.
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Microsoft's early investment in AI may already be paying off. AdvertisementAdvertisementAfter heavily investing in OpenAI after the launch of ChatGPT, Microsoft sparked something of an AI arms race among its big tech rivals. Microsoft's success had a lot to do with the success of Copilot, Rotibi said. "Microsoft has captured the zeitgeist of kind of the AI and generative AI with copilot," she said. Despite Microsoft''s success, Rotibi said it was still too early to call a winner in the AI race or say whether Google was falling behind.
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The company also beat revenue consensus among analysts surveyed by LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv. Microsoft reported revenue of $56.52 billion for the quarter, compared to a consensus estimate of $54.50 billion. Zelnick raised his price target from $380 to $395, adding that "operating discipline" and "a full-stack approach to delivering AI solutions" was just as, if not more impressive, than Microsoft's revenue beat. Azure revenue alone, which Microsoft doesn't disclose in dollars, grew 29% during the quarter. Comments from Microsoft executives helped boost analyst sentiment as well, with Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood saying on a Tuesday call with analysts, "We feel good about our execution, we feel good about taking share and we feel good about consistent trends."
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In the battle to tap the next growth driver for the cloud business, Microsoft has focused on its core business clients that already use many of its software services, while Google has turned to startups. The results show cloud spending is coming from enterprise clients, whereas smaller businesses are reducing their expenditure, he said. Strong AI use was responsible for a 3 percentage point boost to the Microsoft's cloud business in the September quarter. "Unlike many others who are touting their AI story, Microsoft is capable of delivering meaningful AI products to their customers," brokerage D.A. Many analysts were also optimistic about strength in Alphabet's core search business, but they warned the weakness in the cloud business would continue.
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The company's revenue rose 13% to $56.5 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of $54.52 billion, according to LSEG data. Revenue from Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud unit, which houses the Azure cloud-computing platform, grew to $24.3 billion, compared with analysts' estimate of $23.49 billion, LSEG data showed. Microsoft said on Tuesday that its fiscal first-quarter profit was $2.99 per share, above analyst estimates of $2.65 per share, according to LSEG data. Sales of its Windows operating system and other products in the segment grew to $13.7 billion, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of $12.82 billion, according to data from LSEG. The segment containing the LinkedIn social network and its office productivity software grew to $18.6 billion, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of $18.20 billion, according to LSEG data.
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Nadella touted Azure's AI leadership on the post-earnings conference call, calling its AI infrastructure the best for both training and inference, while noting it has deployed its AI services in more regions than any other cloud providers. Gaming was also a strong, with Xbox content and services revenue increasing 12% on a constant-currency basis. Rounding out the quarter, revenue at the productivity-and-business-processes unit increased about 13%, to $18.59 billion, beating estimates of $18.19 billion. Some key highlights include the 17%-constant-currency increase in Microsoft Office commercial revenue growth, which benefitted from a 10% increase in seat growth. Second quarter Azure revenue growth is expected to be 26% to 27% in constant currency.
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Microsoft's cloud business, Azure, is crucial to its increased focus on AI. Analysts estimate Azure revenue growth in the fiscal first quarter expanded 27% year-over-year in constant currency terms, according to FactSet. Analysts at Piper Sandler said the Nov. 1 general release of Microsoft's 365 Copilot , an AI assistant to productivity applications like Word, should be a catalyst for shares. Bottom line The full payoff of Microsoft's AI efforts won't be fully reflected in the upcoming quarterly results given generative AI is still in its infancy. In July, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said growth from the company's AI offerings "will be gradual as Azure AI scales and our Copilots reach general availability dates."
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Microsoft could act as a defensive stock if the U.S. enters a mild recession next year, according to UBS analyst Karl Keirstead. Interest rates While higher interest rates pressure valuations across the tech sector, the UBS analyst expects Microsoft to benefit disproportionately if rates decline in 2024. The company's strong free cash flow generation also makes its stock less rate-sensitive than some of its tech peers, according to Keirstead. "The tech sector tends to be reasonably rate sensitive, and so in a declining rate environment, the tech sector will be one that a lot of investors will gravitate to," he said. "I think that notion of inverse sensitivity to rates is more powerful than the impact of rates on Microsoft's cash balance."
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OpenAI rival Anthropic revamped its constitution around AI safety using public input. Users of its AI chatbot, Claude, want it to admit flaws, and avoid racist or sexist responses. The new guardrails follow months of concerns from tech and government leaders around AI safety. The updates to Anthropic's constitution follow months of concern around AI safety, including from some technology leaders. Read the full version of Anthropic's new AI constitution here.
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Nvidia and AMD could sell PC chips as soon as 2025, one of the people familiar with the matter said. Nvidia and AMD would join Qualcomm (QCOM.O), which has been making Arm-based chips for laptops since 2016. Nvidia spokesperson Ken Brown, AMD spokesperson Brandi Marina, Arm spokesperson Kristen Ray and Microsoft spokesperson Pete Wootton all declined to comment. Executives at Microsoft have observed how efficient Apple’s Arm-based chips are, including with AI processing, and desire to attain similar performance, one of the sources said. AMD's entry into the Arm-based PC market was earlier reported by chip-focused publication SemiAccurate.
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Tuesday General Motors is set to report earnings before the bell, followed by a call at 8:30 a.m. Coca-Cola is set to report earnings in the premarket, with a call slated for 8:30 .am. Wednesday Boeing is set to report earnings in the premarket, with leadership scheduled to hold a call at 10:30 a.m. Ford Motor is set to report earnings after the bell, followed by a conference call at 5 p.m. This quarter: The e-commerce giant is expected to report earnings per share growth of more than 100%, according to LSEG.
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Just like the cloud transformed every software category, we think AI is one such transformational shift. Therefore, this notion of Copilots that we're introducing is really going to be revolutionary in terms of driving productivity and communication. Milton Friedman once famously said: "the business of business is business." One is, is the business of business just business? So, I think AI can actually be very helpful in many ways to be a little more empathetic and more understanding of the world.
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CNN —Thanks to growing competition in the market, and some reticence from consumers, automakers and car dealers are offering huge discounts on electric vehicles, particularly luxury models. In September 2022, the average electric vehicle purchased in the United States, excluding Teslas, went for about $1,500 over sticker price. (Remember, for most new vehicles, the manufacturer’s suggested retail price, or sticker price, is just a suggestion, with the final selling price usually higher or lower.) In sheer dollars, the average price paid for a non-Tesla electric vehicle actually went up slightly over the past year. A couple looks at a Volkswagen ID.4 electric vehicle while shopping at a new car dealership.
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Wall Street analysts this week weighed in on five our of mega-cap tech stocks ahead of their quarterly earnings reports in the coming weeks. Street take: Piper Sandler named Microsoft (MSFT) its "highest conviction large cap stock" to own going into the end of 2023. Meta Platforms META YTD mountain META stock performance YTD. Street take: Bank of America said Meta Platforms (META) is "best positioned for revenue acceleration" as the outlook for digital advertising revenue growth remains solid. Ahead of the tech firm's fiscal third-quarter earnings on Oct. 24, the analysts estimate 10% year-over-year revenue growth in Search and 9% revenue growth in YouTube ads.
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Piper Sandler named Microsoft as its "highest conviction" large-cap stock to own into the year-end. Analysts from the financial services company pointed to a few drivers for the stock in an Oct. 15 note. Piper Sandler also described Microsoft's upcoming M365 Copilot in November as a catalyst. Piper Sandler is optimistic, noting there's been increased traffic to Microsoft's Copilot adoption website. Piper Sandler believes it has further upside, giving it a price target of $400.
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KeyBanc initiates Arm Holdings as overweight Key said it sees "meaningful market share gains" for Arm. " Bank of America reiterates Microsoft as buy Bank of America said Microsoft remains a top pick heading into earnings next week. Deutsche Bank reiterates Ulta as buy Deutsche said despite softening beauty sales, Ulta remains "compelling." "After tripling its market share in China in the last decade, NetEase is emerging as a global video games content powerhouse by forming synergistic partnerships with gaming industry veterans globally that will likely drive a similar runway for its global market share." "As we had anticipated (although we thought it would come in January), ASML reset expectations for CY24 to flat revenue growth vs prior guide of 'growth.'"
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Here are Tuesday's biggest calls on Wall Street: Wells Fargo upgrades Air Products to overweight from equal weight Wells Fargo said it sees robust earnings growth. JPMorgan reiterates Alphabet as overweight JPMorgan said it's standing by its overweight rating heading into earnings next week. " JPMorgan upgrades Viasat to overweight from neutral JPMorgan said it sees an attractive entry point for the satellite company. " JPMorgan upgrades CyberArk to overweight from neutral JPMorgan said it sees "accelerating demand" for the cyber company. JPMorgan initiates Teck Resources as overweight JPMorgan said the metals and mining company is its preferred play. "
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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, weighed in on AI's capacity for empathy and manipulation during an interview on Tuesday. Answers to existential AI questions rest on philosophy as well as tech, according to Nadella. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Nadella and Döpfner discussed the "ethical issues" of AI developing human emotions like empathy or a sense of humor on Tuesday. AdvertisementAdvertisement"We need some moral philosophers to guide us on how to think about this technology and deploying this technology," the Microsoft CEO said.
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Coding community Stack Overflow announced on Monday that it's laying off 28% of its staff. Many generative AI models were partly trained on Stack Overflow's information. This is the second round of layoffs Stack Overflow has had this year — it laid off 10% of its workforce in May. Stack Overflow recently announced the new round of layoffs after more than doubling its headcount in 2022. "Some of them are very explicit about calling out Stack Overflow as a primary source," Chandrasekar previously told Insider.
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Insider Today: Big banks' cloudy forecast
  + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
AdvertisementAdvertisementIn today's big story, we're looking at why strong earnings results from some big banks weren't necessarily the big win markets were hoping for. The big storyTrouble brewingAdvertisementAdvertisementOn the surface, earnings season got off to a great start. And that could spell trouble for the broader market hoping for a banner earnings season to help it finish the year on a positive. AdvertisementAdvertisement"This may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades," he said in a press release announcing the bank's earnings. One market veteran predicts stocks will rally for the final stretch of the year due to a strong earnings season.
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