Google Stays Strong Amid Chip Carnage; Buffett's $10B Bet: New AI Safe Haven?

Alphabet slipped just 0.95% on Friday, making it the most resilient mega-cap tech name during the semiconductor rout. Berkshire Hathaway was reportedly disclosed as having built an approximately $10 billion position in Google, while Alphabet's in-house AI chips (TPUs) reduce its dependence on NVIDIA — leading markets to treat the stock as a safe haven amid AI hardware deleveraging. The combination of cash flow, proprietary silicon, and cloud scale is drawing capital rotating out of crowded AI hardware trades. As money exits AI hardware, will you rotate into Google?

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06-17 09:24

Hedging with Alphabet: Structuring Near-Term Bull Put Spreads Ahead of Q2 Earnings

The divergence we are seeing between Google (Alphabet) $Alphabet(GOOGL)$ $Alphabet(GOOG)$ and the broader semiconductor sector highlights a massive shift in how the market views the AI food chain. When chip stocks face "carnage" due to cyclical fears, capacity constraints, or valuation corrections, Google is increasingly viewed as a structural safe haven. Safe Haven or Core Moat? It is a mix of both, but the core moat is what enables the safe-haven status. Berkshire Hathaway’s massive $10 billion private placement anchoring an $80+ billion equity raise—spearheaded by new CEO Greg Abel—is the ultimate institutional stamp of approval. Why are they hiding out in Google while chipmakers bleed? Insulation fro
Hedging with Alphabet: Structuring Near-Term Bull Put Spreads Ahead of Q2 Earnings
avatarBulla
06-15
$Alphabet(GOOG)$  go buy Google, this one hor can confirm win one[Cool]  
Buy buy buy...investing for supermarket run next year
Thank you very much much appreciated 
avatarGeena57
06-12
🥰positive but limited
$GOOG$  google always wins up just little rest huh 

🔔‼️ 7 new DLCs Listed Today 🔔‼️

Seven new DLCs have commenced trading on SGX on 9 June, including 4 Long DLCs on $JD-SW(09618)$ , $HSI(HSI)$ , $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ and $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ , as well as 3 Short DLCs on OCBC, $SMIC(00981)$ and Nvidia. The new Nvidia and Tesla DLCs have been issued to replenish the shelf of US DLCs. Alongside our other US DLCs, these new 3x DLCs on Nvidia and Tesla provide investors with 3x Leveraged and/or Inverse Exposure to US stock underlyings during Asian hours, enabling investors to gain leveraged or inverse exposure to US stocks during Asian trading hours and react more quickly
🔔‼️ 7 new DLCs Listed Today 🔔‼️
*Google Stays Strong Amid Chip Carnage: New AI Safe Haven?* While chip stocks like Micron fell on order-cut fears, Google/Alphabet stayed stable. Why? Google doesn’t just sell chips - it sells AI services: Search, Cloud, YouTube ads. *Example*: If NVIDIA drops 10% due to fear, Google might drop 2% because investors trust its AI profits are already flowing in. Buffett’s $10B bet on AI software over chip hardware shows this idea: buy the “picks and shovels users”, not just the “shovel makers”. Less risky in chip cycles, but still not “safe”. No stock is.
$Alphabet(GOOGL)$  now it's AI time and Google is bullish. Forward PE looks reasonable. Compare to$Apple(AAPL)$  it's more reasonable
avatarKinnikt
06-08
Yes, I’d rotate some capital from crowded AI hardware into cloud/software, but not abandon chips completely. The cleanest setup is GOOG: it has cloud acceleration, AI deployment, Search monetisation, and still trades cheaper than the quality of its assets suggests. MSFT is the safer fortress, AMZN is the AWS recovery play, and ORCL is the higher-beta infrastructure bet. I’d buy GOOG on pullbacks first, then MSFT/AMZN, while keeping chip exposure smaller and more selective. #GOOG #GOOGL #MSFT #AMZN #AI #Cloud #GoogleCloud #TechStocks
*Alphabet Surges Against the Tide: Who’s Undervalued in Cloud?* ☁️ While most tech sold off, $GOOGL/Google Cloud popped. GCP growth beat expectations again and investors finally stopped treating it like “the 3rd place cloud”. So now everyone’s asking: if Alphabet is surging, who’s still undervalued in cloud? *1. $MSFT Azure* Microsoft Cloud isn’t sexy, but it prints cash. Azure + AI integration with Copilot is sticky with enterprises. Market sees it as “expensive but safe”. If GCP can rerate higher, Azure should too. Still trades cheaper than its growth vs AWS. *2. $AMZN AWS* AWS is the cash cow funding everything at Amazon. Growth slowed, but margins are expanding and AI inference workloads are coming back to AWS. Market’s punishing AMZN for retail, not cloud. At these levels you’re basic
avatarkoolgal
06-07
The Smart Investor's Guide: Why Google is a Safe Choice After the Market Drop 🌟🌟🌟$Alphabet(GOOG)$  Alphabet is like a fortress for your money, trading around USD 365.76 per share after a big drop across the US stockmarket on Friday June 5 2026. When the stock market drops, many new investors panic.  But professional investors look at it as a clearance scale.  This drop means you can buy a piece of a massive, successful company at a discount.  In fact Wall Street analysts think that Google is worth much more, setting an average target price of USD 410, with some expecting it to go as high as USD 510. Why is Berkshire Hathaway Is Buying Google? $Berkshire Hathaway(
$Microsoft(MSFT)$   Disclaimer: Nothing I say or post should be considered financial advice. Please do your own due diligence before making any investment decisions. If you truly believe that MSFT is an ecosystem that people just can't replace, that they have an instrinsic value that will grow overtime, they have a business moat that will ensure they stay competitive for the long run, then now is perhaps a good time to add on some positions.  @PawsAndProfit - Specialist in combining FA and TA for options selling and swing trading.

Rate Hikes Loom: Tech Faces Multiple Compression Despite Strong Cloud Fundamentals

The macro narrative shifted dramatically on Friday, June 5, 2026. Tech took a massive hit (with the Nasdaq sliding 4.2% and the S&P 500 dropping 2.6%) following a red-hot nonfarm payrolls report that saw 172,000 jobs added in May—doubling consensus expectations. This hot data pushed chances of a Fed interest rate hike this year up to roughly 57%, completely flipping the previous script of anticipated cuts. When duration-sensitive mega-caps face a double-barreled threat of rising yields and hawkish policy, separating short-term panic from long-term value is critical. Finding Undervalued Stocks in Cloud When the broader tech sector gets crushed due to rising interest rates, multiple-expansion reverses, hitting the highest-flying names first. Right now, "undervalued" depends on your horiz
Rate Hikes Loom: Tech Faces Multiple Compression Despite Strong Cloud Fundamentals
The AI capital expenditures race just reached a stunning, jaw-dropping milestone. As highlighted in image_12.png, Alphabet (GOOGL) fell 3.81% following its monumental announcement to issue up to $80 billion in new shares to fund its aggressive AI infrastructure ambitions.  This historic move—representing the largest secondary equity fundraising plan in tech history—has cast a harsh spotlight on a growing tension: hyperscalers are racing to secure compute at any cost, yet Alphabet is choosing to tap equity dilution rather than relying strictly on free cash flow to finance the push. This has prompted a wave of investors to rapidly reassess the delicate balance between aggressive AI spending and immediate shareholder returns.  The CapEx Funding Pivot (The [IDEA] Angle): The prompt i
avatarJC888
06-04

GOOG falls on huge stock Sale to fund AI !

Like me, if you are also wondering why $Alphabet(GOOG)$ is falling and falling hard all of a sudden, I managed to track down the root cause. What happened was on 02 Jun 2026, GOOG announced a historic $80 billion equity fundraising plan to fuel its massive artificial intelligence (AI) expansion, a move that highlights the immense capital demands of the ongoing AI arms race. (see below) The initiative represents the largest equity fundraising ever recorded, surpassing the capital raised by the world's 3 largest initial public offerings (IPOs) combined: Saudi Aramco ($25.6 billion in 2019). Alibaba ($21.8 billion in 2014). SoftBank ($21.3 billion in 2018). GOOG’s Structure & Financial mechanisms. Alphabet's capital-raising strategy utilizes a mu
GOOG falls on huge stock Sale to fund AI !
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MS breaks down 4 META major engines, each capable of contributing $1–3 to '28 EPS

$Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ (Morgan Stanley Overweight, target price $775 (new)) Meta Platforms (META) — this forward-looking strategy research report was published on June 2, 2026. Morgan Stanley named META its Top Pick, with a target price of 775, implying roughly ~30% upside versus the current price of 600.47 📈 Closed up at 622.98 (+4.2%, previous close 597.63) The market currently assigns META roughly a 30% valuation discount relative to $Alphabet(GOOGL)$ (NTM P/E discount of about -8.7x, deviating nearly 2 standard deviations from the historical average of -0.4x). Morgan Stanley believes this discount severely underestimates the moat the company is building.
MS breaks down 4 META major engines, each capable of contributing $1–3 to '28 EPS

Cathie Wood Just Bet $95.6M on Google, Any Signal?

Cathie Wood Just Bet $95.6M on Google — Here's Why "Error Tolerance" Matters More Than the AI Hype Key Takeaway: On June 3, ARK Invest sold $40.6M of $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ while snapping up $95.6M in $Alphabet(GOOG)$ , alongside smaller buys in $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ and $Alibaba(BABA)$ . This is one of Wood's largest GOOGL purchases in recent months. Why Is "Woody" Loading Up on Google Now? 1. The Pivot: From "AI Shovels" to "AI Platforms" Cathie Wood has been executing a clear strategy this year: "Sell the阶段性成果, buy the future seeds." Since April, she has consistently trimmed chip "shovel" plays like AMD
Cathie Wood Just Bet $95.6M on Google, Any Signal?

Berkshire Bets $10B on Google's $80B AI Moonshot — Is Buffett Buying the Dip?

$Alphabet(GOOG)$ $Alphabet(GOOGL)$ needs $80 billion in funding for its AI project, causing its stock price to plummet in after-hours trading. Warren Buffett remains silent, and Berkshire Hathaway has stepped in. • The plan includes a $30 billion underwritten offering and a $40 billion at-the-market offering to raise funds in tranches. • $Berkshire Hathaway(BRK.A)$ $Berkshire Hathaway(BRK.B)$ will invest $10 billion through a private placement, with the funds allocated to purchasing Class A and Class C shares. • The funds raised will be used for general corporate purposes, including expanding AI computing power and gl
Berkshire Bets $10B on Google's $80B AI Moonshot — Is Buffett Buying the Dip?