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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Let's get more now on the big tech story. We

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Speaker 2: could say it's two very different stories when it comes

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Speaker 2: to the earnings overnight from Amazon and Apple. Joining us now,

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Speaker 2: someone who follows these companies very closely, Gene Munster, the

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Speaker 2: managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management. Gene, great to speak

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Speaker 2: with you. As always, Let's start with what we can

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Speaker 2: say is the good news based on the reaction to

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Speaker 2: the results from Apple. The shares are up nearly two

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Speaker 2: percent pre market, the fastest quarterly revenue growth for this

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Speaker 2: company in more than three years. In your note, you're

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Speaker 2: saying that this reaction should be a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: Why yeah, Nathan, I guess if you'd put me in

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Speaker 1: some sort of a stock lab, I would say the

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Speaker 1: stock should be of five percent or seven percent today.

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Speaker 1: This is the best quarter they've had and the best

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Speaker 1: guide in the last three and a half years, and

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Speaker 1: so revenue grew at nine percent and excluding that impact

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Speaker 1: of terrorists, the street was looking for four percent, I mean,

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Speaker 1: just at the most basic level. They guided revenue in

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Speaker 1: the September quarter to be up about eight percent. Street

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Speaker 1: was looking for up three percent. They guided margins up

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Speaker 1: and the stock's up two percent. I think it really

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Speaker 1: underscores this gap that we've seen really over the past

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Speaker 1: six months with Apple, and that gap is that regardless

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Speaker 1: of what's happening with the fundamentals, there's this concern that tariffs,

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Speaker 1: that changes in regulatory environments and how it impacts their

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Speaker 1: services growth and just a slowest start to AI is

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Speaker 1: somehow going to cause this company to hit the wall.

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Speaker 1: And I've been following Apple for a long time and

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Speaker 1: I've never seen I think the reaction tonight to the

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Speaker 1: stock and this morning relative to the guidance and the results,

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Speaker 1: I think is as big of a gap as that

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Speaker 1: I've seen, and so it is noteworthy, and I think

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Speaker 1: it just begs the questions a very simple question, what's

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Speaker 1: Apple going to grow at next year? In fiscal twenty six,

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Speaker 1: the streets at five and a half percent growth, and

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Speaker 1: my sense is it's probably going to be well above

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Speaker 1: seven percent just based on what they have coming down

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Speaker 1: on the pipeline, and so I'm in the camp that

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Speaker 1: they are going to continue to grow well. But that

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Speaker 1: is this really surprising gap that we have picked up

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Speaker 2: Just to play devil's advocate, is that gap warranted given

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Speaker 2: the big strides that we've seen from a lot of

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Speaker 2: Apple's competitors when it comes to the AI race In

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Speaker 2: this sense that you mentioned from a lot of analysts

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Speaker 2: it comes to showing that they're keeping up in the

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Speaker 2: AI race.

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Speaker 1: Well, at the service level, it would, but the substances

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Speaker 1: is that there is no feature in consumer tech consumer

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Speaker 1: tech hardware it's powered by AI that has changed people's behavior.

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Speaker 1: And so Apple basically, even though the headlines are that

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Speaker 1: they have been losing ground, they're not in the business

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Speaker 1: of making a chatbot. And so I think that the

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Speaker 1: results of the iPhone iPhone up thirteen percent that had

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Speaker 1: a benefit from pull forward. You back that out, it

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Speaker 1: would have been up eleven percent. You know, you don't.

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Speaker 1: The reason why you have that kind of growth is

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Speaker 1: because consumers are seeing that there's no other alternative out there,

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Speaker 1: and so the narrative is warranted. They have to do more.

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Speaker 1: They need to infuse AI into their products, There's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about that. But I think that this concept that

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Speaker 1: the fact that they're slow out of the gate is

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Speaker 1: going to cause some sort of irreparable damage to the

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Speaker 1: growth rate I think is misplaced.

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Speaker 2: Well, they might not be in the business of making chatbots,

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Speaker 2: but of course they are in the business of making products.

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Speaker 2: And it has been quite a while since we've seen

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Speaker 2: not only a really significant update to the iPhone line,

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Speaker 2: to take off as well. Does Apple need to do

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Speaker 2: more when it comes to coming out with some kind

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Speaker 2: of they can get investors excited.

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Speaker 1: I mean they do. In the world of consumer tache,

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Speaker 1: you always have to, and that's a fair criticism. This fall,

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Speaker 1: we're likely going to see a new form factor, a

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Speaker 1: that's that's incremental. It's something that will be good for

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Speaker 1: the iPhone growth. But to your bigger questions, they knew,

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Speaker 1: call last night. Is this conversation related to Johnny ive

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Speaker 1: and moving to open AI. That, of course is the

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Speaker 1: but now with he's working on like this a screen

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Speaker 1: and so that's probably a few years away, but that's

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Speaker 1: something that's on the horizon.

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Speaker 2: Speaking with Gene Munster, managing partner Deep Asset Management, who

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Speaker 2: covers the tech space, let's move on from Apple to

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Speaker 2: Amazon getting hammered pre market right now down seven and

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Speaker 2: a half percent. Is that kind of reaction warranted to

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Speaker 2: the results that we saw, particularly when it comes to

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Speaker 2: the miss I guess on operating income from Amazon.

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Speaker 1: That level of the reaction is not warranted. So what

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Speaker 1: happened was AWS was up seventeen and a half percent.

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Speaker 1: The whisper that was that it was going to be

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Speaker 1: up twenty percent, and of course Azure grew at thirty

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Speaker 1: nine percent. It accelerated almost six percentage points from March

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Speaker 1: kind of acceleration from Google Cloud. So you have this

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Speaker 1: big accelerations. Amazon did not do that on the call. Notably,

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Speaker 1: they did say that backlog accelerated to twenty five percent,

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Speaker 1: up from twenty percent three months ago. That's a good

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Speaker 1: lead indicator. So reading between the lines, I mean, aws

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Speaker 1: have capacity, but that investors don't want to hear kind

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Speaker 1: of the explanation. They just want to see the results.

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Speaker 1: And I think that if you look at what their

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Speaker 1: for September the street was at nine percent. They guide

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Speaker 1: it operating income up. So I think that, yeah, the

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Speaker 2: A lot of attention as well on the record amount

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Speaker 2: many other of these companies that have been reporting this

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Speaker 2: man was on ninety percent more than this time last year.

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Speaker 2: Is that justified? Can Apple justify that kind of spending

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Speaker 2: based on the results that they've put out there on.

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Speaker 1: important is the capax results. On top of we are

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Speaker 1: seeing real benefits in Amazon's business related to AI and

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Speaker 1: their margins. Of course, in Meta and their growth rate,

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Speaker 1: All of this really points back to that this massive

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Speaker 1: investment that these companies have had in infrastructure is paying off.

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Speaker 1: And I think that this narrative that AI doesn't have

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Speaker 1: an ROI has really been proven wrong. And I think

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Speaker 1: that this was a turning moment. I feel very optimistic,

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Speaker 1: more optimistic about these companies today than I did three

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Speaker 2: So we are at the near the tail end of

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Speaker 2: magnet in seven earning season. We're going to hear from Nvidia,

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Speaker 2: I guess in a little while from now, But based

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Speaker 2: on what we've seen Gene, is it still mag seven?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think MAG seven is a good place to be.

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Speaker 1: I don't think all mag seven's created equal. My bigger

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Speaker 1: sense is that there's an opportunity, and with the bigger

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Speaker 1: opportunities with some of these smaller cap companies. Some of

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Speaker 1: the companies like Verted, for example, had a great quarter.

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Speaker 1: They do power and cool management. So my sense is

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Speaker 1: that you will still see a good performance in the

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Speaker 1: MAG seven, but I think the outperformance is going to

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Speaker 1: come with these companies that are sub five hundred billion

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Speaker 2: And in terms of which of the MAG seven have

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Speaker 2: done better, which have done worse? How do you how

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Speaker 2: do you see things going forward? Got about thirty seconds.

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Speaker 1: Left going forward? I think you're gonna If I was

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Speaker 1: going to pick a couple of top performers, I think

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Speaker 1: Apple is actually going to be a top performer. The

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Speaker 1: MAG seven. I think they're going to prove people wrong

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Speaker 1: I think in Video is going to just keep cranking

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Speaker 1: benefits them. And finally, don't forget about Tesla. Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: going to take them longer, but what they're doing around

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Speaker 2: Really appreciate your thoughts as always, Gene, thank you for this.

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Speaker 2: Gene Munster is managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management and

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Speaker 2: following the latest MAGS seven earnings