Investors have made a pile of money recently by focusing on niche stocks in the AI trade.
Earnings from some of the world’s biggest technology companies this week will offer an indication
of whether they should stick to that strategy in 2026.
The Magnificent Seven tech giants — Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Meta Platforms
Inc., Microsoft Corp., Nvidia Corp. and Tesla Inc. — have led the stock market higher for much of
the past three years. But that reversed at the end of 2025 as Wall Street grew skeptical of the
hundreds of billions of dollars the companies are spending to develop artificial intelligence and
when the returns on those investments will materialize.
Adding computing capacity isn’t cheap. Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta are expected to
spend roughly $475 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, up from $230 billion in 2024. Not
surprisingly, investors want to start seeing a return on those investments. Without it, companies
risk getting punished, according to Clayton Allison, portfolio manager at Prime Capital Financial.
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