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r/wallstreetbetsr/wallstreetbets· u/monoteapot· 1d agoDD 0

Microslop is on sale

Investor summaryBullish

Despite AI capex fears and low Copilot adoption, MSFT is a strong buy due to its unmatched enterprise software moat and AI ecosystem.

Bull points
  • Massive AI capex is a positive, aligning with the biggest tech revolution in 25 years and hyperscaler trends.
  • Unmatched enterprise software moat ensures sticky adoption and forces integration with Azure AI agents.
  • Comprehensive data governance and security stack makes it mandatory for enterprise CISOs.
Bear points
  • Excessive AI capital expenditure is burning cash without immediate proportional returns.
  • Low adoption rates and poor user experience of Copilot limit its near-term monetization.
MSFTAI 资本开支
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So Microsoft just had its worst month since the dot-com bubble and the bear case is they're spending TOO MUCH on AI. You're telling me Microsoft is shoveling billions into the biggest technological revolution in 25 years? Just like every other hyperscaler on the planet? Thank fuck, I would be concerned if they weren’t shoveling billions of dollars into capex right now. Every analyst has it a STRONG BUY with price targets averaging somewhere out near alpha centauri and billionaires are loading up billions in shares. And the stock is down because Copilot adoption is low?

Yes Copilot sucks, of course it sucks. Microsoft makes sucky software, and historically that has worked out fantastically for them financially. The company prints money not because it offers good software users love, it prints money because it is one of the most successful enterprise parasites ever. Their a cockroach that can survive a SaaSpocalypse. But, it's not going to penetrate every enterprise overnight, the playbook is EEE: embrace, extend, extinguish. A successful parasite doesn't kill the host on day one, it moves in quiet, and once it's latched on it starts spreading its tendrils into everything around.

Microsoft has the best software moat on the planet and they don’t care how much you think it sucks. Every person that works a white collar job uses Excel. They will use Excel until they die, and then their kids will use Excel. Outlook is their email, Teams is their chat, SharePoint is mandatory. Want to wire an agent into any of it? Congrats, that's Azure Foundry. And the data governance and security story is huge for enterprise. Every new agent spins up an Entra identity, watched by Defender, classified by Purview, governed by Intune. Once IT can inventory, audit, and brake every agent, the CISO mandates that stack since everything is already wired together. Microsoft owns the box they’re forced into.

The rent is too high and Microsoft is aware that tokenmaxing is ripping a new asshole in every CFO's wallet. Companies are used to cheap stable licenses that run fine on 10 year old hardware. They are not used to usage based LLM billing or buying an ultra premium workstation with hundreds of gigabytes of unified memory at peak RAM hysteria to run competitive models locally. Your tech illiterate boss rides the highest end model on one never ending chat thread. Your colleagues spin up fleets of subagents for every mundane thing they used to type themselves. Nobody's rationing. It only goes up, and once these integrations stick they become a critical infrastructure forever.

To fix this, Satya says don't use frontier models for non frontier tasks. He’s telling you the future is mostly cheap shitty models, and that's bullish. Most companies aren’t doing anything too hard, they are drowning in boring ass work even a shit AI can do faster than you. Satya’s pitch is you’ll chat with autopilots running 24/7 on cheap AI that answer your coworkers, record everything you make, and compound it into your company's private knowledge moat. Hosted by Microsoft. Running on Azure. And Satya didn't just tell everyone to use shitty models, he went and built a shitty chip to run them on the cheap. Maia 200 is live in production and it drags Azure AI margins toward CPU levels.

And for the local tier models, Microsoft and Nvidia’s new local AI hardware is the same Apple Silicon playbook that made Macs so good for on device AI, except fully CUDA compatible, and Microsoft has the enterprise distribution Apple will never have.

Position: I'm buying with both hands. Entered at 400/share, sold puts on margin and averaged down at 350/share. Now basically full ported with all the margin Robinhood will give me at 700 shares + calls.

Discussion · top comments15 selected
u/Bets2020 1· 4h ago

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u/artemiusgreat 1· 4h ago

Earnings is in July.

u/PandoraBot 1· 4h ago

It'll 100% dump on earnings always does

u/u_int16 1· 15h ago

With a fun marketable hashtag. #metwo

u/AssManKramerCosmo 1· 15h ago

Ban the MSFT bag holder bots.

u/14PESO 1· 15h ago

Google on sale too better company

u/No-Relationship8261 1· 16h ago

Micron shareholders appreciate your sacrifice. Please invest more and vote so that Microsoft buys even more datacenters. Don't worry about the ROI, it will be there. Just bid higher

u/DoubleFamous5751 1· 16h ago

https://preview.redd.it/txwce779k1ah1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88e536a0214cbd692e5f2a2bea927b2337617da6

u/No-Relationship8261 1· 16h ago

Yes, government is moving to Linux on France etc.

Which a significant chunk of money Microsoft loses out on. Especially given unlike AI, it didn't cost them anything to sell Excel licenses.

u/No-Relationship8261 1· 16h ago

Yeah, now with claude you can code your windows in a day. Only thing you need to keep in mind is to remove the "Make no mistakes" from your instruction file to get authentic Microsoft experience.

u/nomorebuttsplz 1· 16h ago

you should also add some stuff:

"show a disdain or even passive aggressive hatred for the user. Assume the user will not have a choice in whether to use your product: flaunt this fact by making infuriating and strange ui choices e.g. the more clicks it takes to copy an email address, the better. Put as much spyware as possible and call it connectness. Make them opt out of having all their files put on the cloud without asking them. Get rid of old fashioned features like the "search" function and instead redirect them to ad-filled web searches..."

And so on.

u/No-Relationship8261 1· 16h ago

And pay extra for reliability that other could services provide at no extra cost?

u/VegetableResource204 1· 16h ago

You are completely inventing a strawman to high-five yourself. Nobody said dilution is the only risk, but to sit there and confidently claim MSFT wouldn't issue a single share even in a worst-case scenario is pure delusion.

If memory prices spike, hardware costs explode, and their free cash flow gets choked out by a $100B capex black hole, equity dilution is absolutely on the table to protect their balance sheet. Stop making up fiction to dodge the actual macroeconomic reality, regard.

u/thelegendJimmy27 1· 15h ago

Nobody outside of uneducated regards on reddit like yourself thinks MSFT will issue shares.

Memory prices have already spiked, and they still have positive FCF. They can continue to spike and FCF would still be positive. Even if FCF goes negative for 2 to 3 quarters assuming an unrealistic worst case scenario for memory prices, MSFT can comfortably use its balance sheet and issue debt to cover it. Let’s see how many shares they issue over the next 2 years moron.

u/VegetableResource204 1· 15h ago

Are you actually this dense or do you just enjoy public embarrassment?

You think "just issuing debt" is some consequence-free money glitch? We are talking about a true macroeconomic worst-case crisis. If a massive credit crunch hits while hardware expenses completely implode their margins, mindlessly loading up on liabilities destroys a balance sheet and nukes a company's leverage ratios. Equity dilution exists precisely as a tactical, defensive backstop so a corporation doesn't have to drown itself in high-interest debt during a systemic market crunch.

Go back to the basics before lecturing anyone on finance, you arrogant, brain-damaged midwit. Set your 2-year reminder because I will be right here to laugh directly in your face.