$Rum Group Inc(RUM)$ The Department of War announced it is looking at cloud vendors outside of $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ and MSFT. I wonder who might get a slice of that pie.
$Microsoft(MSFT)$ Stifel upgraded Microsoft to Buy from Hold, with a price target of $575, up from $530. The firm says it is increasingly comfortable with the company's ability to sustain mid/upper teens revenue growth, as open-weight model advancement has boosted management's LLM agnostic strategy. Stifel also points out that Microsoft's operating expense efficiencies are supportive of stable operating margins, while its strong cash flows should limit the need for outside financing. On the gross-margin concerns from earlier this year, Stifel notes it is now increasingly evident that Azure operational efficiency efforts, elimination of payments to OpenAI after the April contract revision, disciplined capex spen
$Alphabet(GOOGL)$ This reminds me of how Microsoft moved before it took off. It would climb in premarket, then give it back at the open. That was a daily pattern for 3 months, and then it blew up. MSFT and GOOGL are major buys. Add NVDA to that as well.
$Alphabet(GOOGL)$ The AI selloff fear over the weekend turned out to be noise. GOOGL and AMZN announced billion-dollar AI deals after hours. AI stocks are ripping. CBRS is hitting 192 from the 181 adds, NBIS is hitting 224 from the 206 adds, and CRDO is hitting 166.29 from the 150/152 adds.
$Vertical Data Inc.(VDTA)$ Major AI infrastructure development paired with an extremely thin trading stock is quite a combination. The contemplated contract value is $192.1M, involving 1,024 Blackwell Ultra GPUs. If this starts getting picked up by the broader AI community, it could get interesting quickly.