AI Is Eating Big Tech’s Buybacks: Shareholders Get the Lowest Share in 15 Years
Big Tech is generating record cash, but shareholders are getting less of it than at any point in at least 15 years.
A Reuters analysis of Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle found the five companies returned just 9.3% of operating cash flow through dividends and buybacks in the first nine months of this year.
In this video, we decode:
📊 Why combined operating cash flow rose 29% to a record 542.9 billion dollars
🏗️ How AI infrastructure spending doubled capex to 556.9 billion dollars
📉 Why fewer buybacks put more pressure on real profit growth to drive EPS
🔍 The key investor question: will today’s AI spending produce enough cash to justify today’s valuations?
📅 The next signal to watch: 2027 capital-spending guidance
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