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The Quality Question for tech stocks, and Nvidia’s AI ChatGPT Opportunity 2/27/23

TechCheck

CNBC

Management, Cnbc, Tech, Faang, Investing, Business, Disruptors, Technology

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Deirdre Bosa debuts the new TechCheck format – the stories investors need to know within tech. The gang starts with a discussion of unprofitable, high-beta tech stocks, with Zoom earnings coming after the bell and a lot more software names this week. The Nasdaq 100 is coming off its worst week of the year, with unprofitable names underperforming and “quality” names holding up the best. A bright spot though? Nvidia. We look at the opportunity for Nvidia in ChatGPT, AI products, and the demand they could create for raw computing power.

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0:00.0

Kathy Wood spoke to you guys about market dislocation.

0:02.7

She said that about five times.

0:04.0

And when it comes to tech, that is really the big question.

0:06.3

As we start off on this Monday morning,

0:08.2

quality versus unprofitable, value versus growth.

0:11.0

So big task for some of those names in the latter group that

0:13.9

comes tonight in the form of Zoom. Classic case here of a product that got its

0:18.0

clock cleaned by Microsoft Teams, Google Suite, that dreaded bundle we talk

0:22.1

about so often. It's DocuSign as well. It's Twillio and even Slack bought by Salesforce, which reports on Wednesday, by the way. One note this morning says that investors are pondering a Slack spinoff or even a Tablo spin-off that's another

0:33.4

buzzy software name that Bennyoff picked up in 2019 that may or may not be

0:38.0

living up to its promise for investors and has the activists circling. Those

0:42.1

questions are going to come up in the next week with a lot of these names reporting.

0:46.0

How much Deirdre have have investor expectations been reset around some of these stay at home

0:53.6

COVID winners that have all, you know, given back a lot of business

0:57.0

and now had to adjust completely on their cost structure.

0:59.8

Well, they were reset last year.

1:02.0

Remember, they had these huge valuation runups

1:04.6

during the pandemic, and then they came back down to earth.

1:07.4

But this year has been really remarkable

1:09.6

because a lot of these names,

1:10.9

I'm profitable specifically, have seen these huge runups, like Zoom is up about 10% so are we going to get

1:16.6

the fundamentals to justify that the big theme of course is now profitable

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