Bar chart of latest-quarter free cash flow, with Microsoft at plus 18.6 billion dollars and Meta, Oracle, Alphabet and Amazon negative, down to minus 34.8 billion.

Microsoft generated $18.6B of free cash flow last quarter, while Meta, Oracle, Alphabet and Amazon all burned cash.

  • Microsoft +$18.6B

  • Meta -$1.2B

  • Oracle -$5.4B

  • Alphabet -$9.1B

  • Amazon -$34.8B

Amazon had the deepest burn at $34.8B.

To be sure, Alphabet and Meta are still positive over the past 12 months.

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Microsoft is the only big AI spender paying for its buildout out of cash flow.

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Phil Rosen
Phil Rosen

Phil Rosen is co-founder and CEO of Opening Bell Media and chief market strategist for Silvia Inc. (NASDAQ: SVIA). He hosts Full Signal and writes Opening Bell Daily — the markets briefing read by over 200,000 investors and published on Bloomberg Terminals — and has also published two books and won a Fulbright award for his reporting. Contact him at [email protected].

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