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Pricing the AI buildout

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle are spending on AI infrastructure at a pace with no precedent. Set the growth, margin, capex, and discount-rate assumptions below and see the per-share value they imply. Whether those assumptions are right is for you to decide.

Companies: MSFT · GOOGL · AMZN · META · ORCLMethod: 15-yr scenario DCF
How to read this. Under the assumptions you pick, the model returns a fair value per share. It deliberately shows no market price and takes no view on whether any stock is cheap, dear, or worth owning — that judgment is yours. This is an educational tool for exploring how assumptions drive value, not a prediction and not investment advice.

The model

Pick a company, load a scenario, then turn the dials.

$663fair value per share under your assumptions
Bear
$220
Base
$663
Bull
$1207
Implied 15-yr rev CAGR
10.0%
Terminal value % of EV
62%
Base-year revenue
$332B
Base-yr capex / rev
35%
AssumptionBearBaseBull
Starting growth7%15%18%
~15-yr CAGR5.0%10.0%11.8%
Operating margin40%44%47%
Terminal capex/rev19%14%11%
WACC10.0%8.5%7.5%
Fair value / sh$220$663$1207

Data. Base-year financials, capex history, lease commitments, shares, and tax rates from each company’s most recent 10-K (SEC/EDGAR, via tenx) — a fixed snapshot (latest 10-K filings, Aug 2026), not a live feed.

Method. 15-year, three-phase-growth scenario discounted-cash-flow with owned-only vintage depreciation and leases as a phased expense; presets calibrated to each company’s regime-appropriate history.

Not investment advice. Every reader must form their own judgment about whether the assumptions hold and whether an investment is right for them.

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