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Investors Hated This Amazon Announcement in February. Now It Looks Genius.

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“For reference, Amazon's trailing-12-month free cash flow peaked at $53 billion in mid-2024.”
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  • A $1,000 investment in Apple when Stock Advisor doubled down in 2008 would be worth $51,615 as of April 26, 2026.

    60% confidence
  • AWS's AI-specific revenue reached a $15 billion annual run rate earlier in 2026 and is growing extremely quickly.

    60% confidence
  • A $1,000 investment in Netflix when Stock Advisor doubled down in 2004 would be worth $498,522 as of April 26, 2026.

    60% confidence
  • Much of AWS capex expected to be spent in 2026 will be monetized in 2027-2028, and Amazon already has customer commitments covering a substantial portion of that capex.

    60% confidence
  • Amazon's $200 billion capex plan is not a top-line revenue grab; management has confidence the investments will yield strong returns on invested capital.

    60% confidence
  • Amazon is monetizing AWS capacity as quickly as it is installed.

    60% confidence
  • Amazon's massive jump in capex spending in 2026 could result in negative free cash flow for the business in 2026.

    60% confidence
  • Mythos is too dangerous to release to the public; it will instead be offered with limited access to select enterprises to secure their codebases before any broader release.

    60% confidence
  • Over the long run, Amazon should generate even more free cash flow than before the AI investment cycle, exceeding the prior TTM peak of $53 billion reached in mid-2024.

    60% confidence
  • Amazon stock is still fairly attractive at the current price given the long-term opportunity to accelerate AWS and produce massive free cash flow by the end of the decade.

    60% confidence
  • A $1,000 investment in Nvidia when Stock Advisor doubled down in 2009 would be worth $540,224 as of April 26, 2026.

    60% confidence

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OpenAI · aws spend commitment100 USD
Anthropic · aws spend commitment100 USD
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Ford Motor Company
Both facts give cash for Ford Motor Company at the same point in time (2025-12-31; FY 2025 year-end and Q4 2025 year-end are the same date). Both are labelled USD, but the values are 23,356,000,000 and 23.356, which cannot both be true in USD. The two numbers agree once the second is read as billions (23.356 bn = 23,356,000,000), so the economic content is consistent and the conflict is a unit/scale error in the Q4 2025 record. The period is not the reason for the conflict: a Q4 and an FY figure at the same year-end date should match.
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