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Arrakis Global

Global Thematic Fund Manager

17 Oct, 09:11Latest

Accenture and Wolters Kluwer benefit massively from cheaper AI tokens and margin gains as they deploy AI. Their knowledge costs rank among the highest relative to COGS, but regulatory capture, reputation and sticky customers keep revenue broadly intact. Neither shows clear signs of slowing growth; Accenture guided to high-single-digit revenue growth from 2029. Despite enormous terminal-value compression, an unwinding AI-infrastructure trade could bring a sizeable rerating if fundamentals hold. x.com x.com x.com x.com

ACN

WKL.AS

Rich Peter

Investor, Crypto, US Stocks & High-Dividend ETFs

29 Oct

GOOGL

Alphabet's AI capex payback is being repriced, making its post-earnings decline more than a one-day mood swing. Guidance and cloud and AI margin commentary are the near-term tests. If growth continues but the multiple compresses, the risk is duration in mega-cap AI, not a collapse in technology growth. x.com

Pepe Invests

Retail Investor, Stocks, Real Estate, AI & Bitcoin

25 May

ACN

Accenture looks undervalued because the market seems to have decided AI kills consulting, while it could be the big winner as companies need AI implemented at scale. Q2 bookings hit a record $22.1B, AI bookings nearly doubled to $2.2B and FCF guidance rose to $10.8-11.5B. It has 85,000 dedicated AI staff, and unlike McKinsey it builds, runs and maintains AI, yet trades at 14x earnings, cheaper than Coca-Cola. This could be very wrong, but it looks interesting at these levels. x.com x.com x.com

Techquity

Technology Investor, Fundamental Research

20 Oct

ACN

Accenture's rising acquisition spending raises concern about shareholder value as its return on invested capital falls. ROIC dropped from about 113% to 25% while debt tripled in two years to $13.4 billion, exceeding cash for the first time. Revenue grew 6% and operating margin held near 15-16%; 25% is still a very good return and net debt is close to zero. AI's potential to reshape consulting remains a worry. x.com

Daave “3 and 30” Tepper

Institutional Endowment Investor

27 Oct

SMH

Financing announcements point to more accelerator demand, supporting semiconductors. About $200bn in announced Meta, Anthropic/Broadcom and SpaceX/Nvidia financing likely drives $400bn in XPU purchases. Data centers burn cash until lit, then cash flow 20-40% annually; AI spend rising from 0.1% to 0.5-1% of current payroll could balance the buildout if agents replace roles. Sustainable token demand is the bet, but smaller local models are the bigger risk, though not an immediate concern. x.com … Show more

Ryan M Craver

Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Podean

21 Oct

NVDA

More AI tokens mean more compute demand for Nvidia even as pricing power starts to slip. OpenRouter data via the FT show weekly token use up ~250-fold since January 2025; the FT links the surge to agents' long call chains. Bloomberg's breakdown of a 1 GW AI campus that could cost roughly $30B puts well over half the bill in chips and servers, most landing at Nvidia as GPU racks. Servers wear out in 5-6 years, making AI capex a recurring chip refresh. x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com

Quality Equities

Quality Equity Investor, Concentrated Portfolios

2 Oct

ACN

Accenture's surge on claims that AI is helping the business overlooks how hard it was straining for revenue. Just a few months ago it effectively asked employees to defer vacation so they could bill more hours in Q4 and pull revenue forward. x.com

Divergent Capital

Private Investor & Writer, Capital-Light Businesses & Special Situations

24 Jun

RELX

TRI

WKL.AS

RELX, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer should monetize AI durably, because LLMs are commodities with little differentiation, switching cost or barrier to entry, so value accrues to those who distribute AI through existing customers and embedded workflows. Their proprietary legal, medical and insurance data and analysis are embedded, trusted for decades, professionally curated and required for professional liability, and they partner with frontier labs. AI-substitution fears look misplaced. … Show more

Travis Hoium

Motley Fool Analyst, Author of Asymmetric Investing

22 Oct

NBIS

NVDA

TSM

AMD

AI suppliers' demand may not justify today's investment. Roughly $3 trillion in revenue absent last year is needed to support the spending, yet GDP growth is weak and many companies may be seeing only incremental gains. If the estimate that Anthropic uses two-thirds of its compute for training is right, it could triple inference supply. The most likely outcome for many companies, roughly half the S&P 500, is slowing growth, compressed margins and multiples; when the bubble ends is uncertain. … Show more

M&M Lion Fund

Small-Fund Portfolio Manager Since 2023, IE Business School & Javeriana Background

18 Jun

ACN

Accenture's headcount-based consulting model is being cannibalized by AI pure-plays, and it is hard to win in AI when the entire model is selling human labor. Bookings of $19.3B came in below last year's $19.7B, and the stock is making new 52-week lows. Headcount reductions look inevitable across the industry. x.com

Dan Loewenherz

Building at Opendoor, Former CTO at Coffee Meets Bagel

16 Oct

SPY

The S&P 500's concentrated, correlated AI exposure makes a large allocation too risky as rates rise. Higher rates could force data-center bondholders to sell AI equities; early AI use appears to be stagnating and unclear ROI may cap demand even if usage grows linearly. Failed lab IPOs or a credit-driven recession could also undermine the market. AI moving on-device or on-premise is another significant risk to data-center capacity demand. x.com x.com

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