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‘They sell the big hot dogs’: The companies that hyperscalers trail in valuations

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Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi walks through a chart showing Microsoft ( MSFT ), Amazon ( AMZN ), Alphabet ( GOOGL ) ( GOOG ), Meta ( META ), and Oracle ( ORCL ) trading at lower forward P/E multiples than consumer staples and retailers like Costco ( COST ), Walmart ( WMT ), Coca-Cola ( KO ), and Home Depot ( HD ).

00:00 Speaker A

I want to start with this one. and this is a really, really good chart. I just came across this this morning as I was getting my day going, prepping for a lot of stuff, and it's from the team over at Boring Biz and and they're using data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

00:15 Speaker A

And this just shows some of the valuation disparities. And I'm just going to point to this. I'm going to try to break it down in real time.

00:22 Speaker A

The revenue growth for the hyperscalers, that's Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle. Hyperscaler uh average revenue growth latest 12 month last 12 months, or latest 12 months, I should say, 20.9%, very, very strong.

00:36 Speaker A

But you look at the average PE ratio for the hyperscalers now after the major sell off, 20.7 times. Now, that is higher than the S&P 500 at about 19 times like I just mentioned, but still,

00:48 Speaker A

look at where some of these other names are trading. I have to put down my notes because this is I'm getting a little animated here. Look at this chart.

00:54 Speaker A

Costco, trading at 44 times forward estimated earnings. They sell the big hot dogs. They're not out there selling AI CAPX.

01:03 Speaker A

They're a hot dog seller. Look what Costco's trading at. Walmart? All right, Walmart's an absolutely amazing business. 41 times estimated forward earnings. Starbucks.

01:12 Speaker A

No, I think Starbucks is a is a is a growth jugge at this point under CEO Brian Nickel. I just talked to him last Friday. I mean the company's back, so I kind of understand that one.

01:19 Speaker A

Coca-Cola valued at a higher multiple than Meta and Oracle? Like this is crazy stuff, guys.

01:26 Speaker A

Home Depot in the midst of the housing market in the United States being frozen. Are you kidding me? Home Depot trading at a PE ratio forward of 21.4 times and Oracle, 15.3 times, Meta, 18.7 times.

01:41 Speaker A

This shows this chart here and shout outs again, boring business, S&P Global uh market intelligence for compiling this. This just shows how fast the valuations on these tech stocks have compressed uh as concerns about free cash flow have intensified.

01:54 Speaker A

But again, you're seeing a little bit of a flight to safety in these names, the Costco and Walmart. But again, uh the valuation disparity is just it's so high. I mean, it's almost hard to believe guys. I I had to do a double take and I checked a lot of these numbers, of course, uh with Yahoo Finnds Alpha space, they all check out.

02:07 Speaker A

Always check the numbers, make sure they're right. Not that I don't trust their work, but I want to make sure everything's okay.

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