Microsoft Surges 15.5% — Did One Earnings Report End Nasdaq's Six-Session Slump?

Microsoft surged 15.51% on Thursday, fully realizing the prior evening's after-hours gains and directly lifting the Nasdaq out of a six-session losing streak, with both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting their best single-day performance in nearly a month. Market focus shifted from "will capex spiral out of control" to "can AI actually monetize" — and Microsoft answered with its results. The contrast with Meta, which was sold off on comparable spending, was striking. Now that a megacap has proven the spend is working, how long can this earnings-driven rally last?

$MSFT 20271217 400.0 CALL$ 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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08-01 23:00
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08-01 17:59
$Microsoft(MSFT)$  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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08-01 08:47
$MSFT 20261218 380.0 CALL$  $Microsoft(MSFT)$  I have been holding this for a long time, and finally it rewarded well. [Miser]  [Happy]   
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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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07-31 15:08
🌟🌟🌟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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07-31 14:01

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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07-31 11:44

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
One Sentence:Apple Books It as Cost, SanDisk Books It as Revenue.
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07-31 08:50
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07-31 04:53

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
AI Spending Is No Longer Enough: Microsoft Won, Meta Lost, Amazon Complicated the Story
avatarLanceljx
07-30 22:46
Microsoft's rally suggests investors are rewarding AI monetisation, not simply AI spending. Azure growth and management's confidence in competing with OpenAI and Anthropic signalled that Microsoft's infrastructure investments are translating into customer demand and revenue. Meta, despite a similar AI investment strategy, faced greater scrutiny because returns remain tied more to future advertising and AI execution. If this view persists, the market could further reprice the cloud and compute supply chain. Hyperscalers with visible AI revenue may command higher valuations, while key beneficiaries such as Nvidia, TSMC, Broadcom, AMD, networking, power, memory and data centre infrastructure providers could also see renewed support. The next test is whether upcoming earnings confirm that AI c
avatarShyon
07-30
I would choose B first, followed by A. I remain most bullish on the AI hardware supply chain because regardless of which platform wins, hyperscalers will continue investing in GPUs, networking, memory and power infrastructure. As long as capex stays strong, hardware demand should remain well supported. Microsoft's $Microsoft(MSFT)$ results also show the market has shifted from rewarding AI spending to rewarding AI monetization. Azure and Copilot are already generating visible revenue, while Meta $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ still needs to prove its AI investments can create meaningful cash flow beyond advertising. I don't think the AI trade is over—it is simply becoming more selective. I'll continue accu
avatarMkoh
07-30
AI Capex Showdown: Why Microsoft Got a Standing Ovation and Meta Took a Hit I've been watching these tech earnings for years, and last night's reports from Microsoft and Meta delivered one of the cleanest case studies in how Wall Street actually prices AI bets. Both companies dropped monster revenue numbers. Both are pouring tens of billions into the same infrastructure gold rush. Yet the market sent MSFT shares up sharply after hours while hammering META down nearly as hard in the other direction. Let's break it down without the hype. The Numbers Side by Side Microsoft's fiscal Q4 (ended June 30, 2026) came in at $90 billion revenue, up 18% year-over-year and ahead of expectations. Adjusted EPS hit $4.74, crushing the street. Azure cloud growth accelerated to 43%, pushing the annual cloud
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07-30
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Same AI Spending, Different Results: Why Microsoft Surged While Meta Slid

Microsoft and Meta reported earnings on the same night. Both are spending heavily on AI infrastructure, both raised or maintained aggressive investment plans, and both delivered strong revenue growth. The market still gave them opposite verdicts. $Microsoft(MSFT)$ rose more than 8% after hours as Azure growth, Copilot adoption and a strong outlook convinced investors that its AI spending is already generating measurable returns. $Meta Platforms(META)$ fell roughly 9% in premarket trading after free cash flow collapsed and capital expenditure remained close to record levels. Meta’s advertising business is still growing quickly, but investors want a clearer answer on how its enormous compute buildout will c
Same AI Spending, Different Results: Why Microsoft Surged While Meta Slid

Why Microsoft’s Cloud Acceleration Made Its AI Spending Easier to Defend

$Microsoft(MSFT)$’s fiscal fourth-quarter report delivered something investors have been demanding from the largest AI spenders: evidence that infrastructure investment is translating into faster customer adoption, contracted revenue and cash generation. Microsoft reported on July 29 for the quarter ended June 30. Revenue increased 18% to $90.0 billion, while operating income rose 18% to $40.6 billion. Full-year revenue reached $331.8 billion. Microsoft’s official fiscal-fourth-quarter release provides the results. Azure revenue increased 43%, exceeding the approximately 40% expected. Management projected 45% constant-currency Azure growth for the September quarter, also above expectations. Microsoft 365 Copilot reached more than 30 million paid s
Why Microsoft’s Cloud Acceleration Made Its AI Spending Easier to Defend