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Alphabet is raising $80B through equity offerings, including a $10B investment deal with Berkshire, to fund AI spending, in one of the largest equity deals ever

Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising $80 billion in equity offerings, including an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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  • @bancsutherland Bancroft Sutherland on bluesky
    This has to be the largest secondary offering in history by a wide margin, right?
  • @hkuppy @hkuppy on x
    Remember when shale companies would keep drilling negative ROIC wells and fund them with debt or equity or converts or literally any idiotic funding source. That's why they'd trade at 3x EBITDA. $GOOG just told you that it's basically a shale company. They cannot stop spending on
  • @puppyeh1 Jeremy Raper on x
    How does anyone possibly spin this as bullish? One of the most cashed-up, resourced megacap cos in the world feels the need to dump 80 bill of their stock to fund the AI monster...
  • @charlesd353 Charles on x
    Woah. Google deciding to pay for the AI buildout with equity rather than debt is an interestingly defensive call
  • @highyieldharry @highyieldharry on x
    You're bearish? Google is randomly raising $80B and you're bearish? [image]
  • @mattzeitlin Matthew Zeitlin on x
    when's the last time a megacap publicly traded company raised new equity like this
  • @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
    Wow, Berkshire Hathaway investing $10 billion into $GOOGL in a private placement as part of a broader $80 billion equity capital raise by the company to expand its AI infrastructure [image]
  • @evfcfaddict Andy on x
    If a company with 50B net cash that generates 200B ebitda a year raises 80B with an equity raise, it's pretty clear to me they think the equity is overvalued. $GOOG
  • @firstadopter Tae Kim on x
    If I was an Alphabet shareholder I'd be livid. Why is Berkshire getting a discount vs. average investor? Why are they selling equity at their level of profitability? It makes no sense. $GOOGL [image]
  • @salexashenko Sergey Alexashenko on x
    Google equity raises [image]
  • Ricardo Marques Pinto, CFA Ricardo Marques Pinto, CFA on linkedin
    From a buyback machine to a shares issuer.  —  The AI boom means a level of Capex that will require new sources of financing.  Free cash flow is not enough to cover. …
  • Boon Tee Eng Boon Tee Eng on linkedin
    Alphabet announced an $80bn equity raise mainly to fund AI compute infrastructure.  —  Structure of the raise:  —  • $10bn private placement to Berkshire Hathaway …
  • @earlymodjustice Holly Brewer on bluesky
    I can tell Warren Buffett isn't in charge of Berkshire Hathaway any more.
  • r/technology r on reddit
    Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion for AI goals, Berkshire to invest $10 billion
  • r/SNDK_Stock r on reddit
    Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion from stock sales to fund AI buildout
  • r/wallstreetbets r on reddit
    Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced plans to raise $80 billion through equity offerings.
  • r/StockMarket r on reddit
    Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion from stock sales to fund AI buildout
  • @litcapital @litcapital on x
    Google is raising $80 billion of equity a week before SpaceX is trying to raise $75 billion a few months before Anthropic and OpenAI are trying to raise $100 billion from investors and you're laughing??? This is a cataclysmic exit liquidity avalanche [video]
  • r/theprimeagen r on reddit
    Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion from stock sales to fund AI build-out