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Meta's AI capex lacks a great return beyond ads, and employee morale outside its superintelligence lab looks at an all-time low. Random layoffs have left everyone outside that lab with one foot out the door. Muse is great and could even lift the stock to $800, but a paid tier would need around 500M subscribers to dent $60B of revenue, so Muse plus ads is the bigger lever, and Zuckerberg's political ties could backfire if Democrats win. Better to get out while the stock is doing well. x.com x.com x.com x.com x.comÂ
Meta shareholders face severe dilution from Zuckerberg's expected announcement as the global macro backdrop deteriorates. Moving earnings a week ahead of other hyperscalers looks like a way to announce the dilution first. x.comÂ
Meta's expected $700 billion share raise would dilute investors while a non-voting class preserves Zuckerberg's control. With AI bond financing effectively closed, that is how it plans to fund its needs. X's growing ad inventory should lower ad prices enough to pull small advertisers' budgets away from Meta. x.com x.com x.comÂ
Meta's AI infrastructure financing raises the risk that a long wait for revenue and profit will keep its shares volatile. It disclosed plans to raise up to $95 billion. @amitisinvesting warns that further dilution could keep the stock stuck even if the buildout eventually pays off. Meta's selloff is still a massive buying opportunity. x.com x.com x.comÂ
Meta's accounting leaves its leverage profile completely misunderstood. It has about $600 billion in off-balance-sheet liabilities that it can accelerate now that it feels it has reason to, and leverage will likely worsen as it tries to emulate the labs Zuckerberg wants it to resemble. x.comÂ
Mark Zuckerberg will spend the rest of his career chasing another business as big as social media without finding it. Meta shareholders will suffer. x.comÂ
Meta's AI-orchestrated ad growth makes criticism of Zuckerberg misplaced. The business is growing in the upper 20s, versus 12% for Google Search. x.comÂ
Meta's planned stock offerings to finance AI growth merit a selloff in its shares. The Wall Street Journal reports up to $95 billion in financing and a potential at-the-market offering of up to $60 billion, possibly beginning in Q1 2027. Send Meta to zero. x.comÂ
Meta looks unattractive because its fines, capital raises and AI capex make the math ugly. The stock could trade back to the $500s, while hyperscalers probably have to make those raises with equity down 15-25%. Muse looks like a fad and average users may not need AI agents, matching LogicalThesis's view. x.com x.com x.comÂ
Meta looks very attractive after settling for $16.7 billion, far below the roughly $50 billion worst case and merely a slap on the wrist. The $1.4 trillion figure was never going to happen, and other lawsuits are even smaller. The more material concern is whether required changes to its algorithm or platform for young users hurt the product, and its Q2 explanation of capex strategy and ROI was the weakest among hyperscalers. It remains one not to own personally. x.com x.comÂ
Meta's cash generation turned negative in Q3, coinciding with the start of its share-price slide. It was Meta's first negative free-cash-flow quarter in more than a decade. A $25 billion share sale priced at $625 this week, and the shares are already below that price. x.comÂ