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Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession

BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m not sure what your point is, the investors care about the stock price because that’s their money in/money out. Lower profit could be fine if they’re, say, investing 150Bn/yr into a new venture that stands to be profitable in the future (may even drive the stock price up). It’s vibes based to a degree, quite a bit of analysis goes into a company’s performance as well.

FWIW their gross profit is also up more than 3x in the same time frame.

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bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

He’s generating profit, that’s all that matters to the shareholders.

Is he?

Have a look at the MSFT share price

My only point is that share price and profit are not necessarily correlated, people mix them up all the time, so I try to correct that when I see it. I’m not disagreeing with your overall point - I would agree that most investors only care about the share price.

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- BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah, I should’ve been more clear in my original post - I was trying to convey why investors would like him and just ignored the profit bit.
  
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