Wall Street is very bearish on hyperscalers: Costco and Walmart trade at higher multiples
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Ho-hum Costco (COST) and Walmart (WMT) are trading on fatter PE ratios than every single major high-growth hyperscaler: Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOG), Meta (META) and Oracle (ORCL). Looking to get a sense of how bearish Wall Street has quickly gotten on the AI…
Read at the source ↗MARKET IMPACTNEUTRAL✦ News Impact agent estimateTone: expected bearishA valuation comparison between high-growth hyperscalers and defensive stocks suggests cautious sentiment on the AI trade.AI-generated summary
✦ IN BRIEF · AIAI-generated summary
- 01Hyperscalers with average 21% revenue growth trade at an average forward P/E of 20.7x, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
- 02Costco and Walmart trade on forward P/E ratios of 44x and 41x, respectively.
- 03According to S&P, the market is paying more for slower growers than for companies expected to benefit from the AI boom.
NEWS IMPACT AND MARKET REACTIONChange since the story · reference
Microsoft Corporation—Stale quoteNegative Amazon.com, Inc.—Stale quoteNegative Alphabet Inc.—Stale quoteNegative Meta Platforms, Inc.—Stale quoteNegative Oracle Corporation—Stale quoteNegative Costco Wholesale Corporation—Stale quoteNeutral
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