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in the last say four or five sessions is
down almost a clean 20%.
>> Right? I think now down about 40% from
its recent high. Clearly there is
opportunity here for management to level
set the expectations around debt
financing just how much it's planning to
raise. Uh according to a credit investor
I spoke to on Friday. The expectation is
that this is a company that needs to go
to the debt market sooner than expected
because the latest 10Q did show a
substantial rise in data center leases,
which again resurrects this whole
question around financing.
>> Well, folks, Oracle bonds are falling
off a cliff. And this is a really big
red flag because it means the money
printing Jerome Powell is doing might
just be pushing against a string. Now,
we'll look at the fundamentals and we'll
see what's actually going on because
that's what we like to do on the channel
here is talk about what's actually
happening by looking at the financials.
But this morning, I took out this cable.
And the reason I took out this cable in
the course member live stream this
morning is to provide an analogy. I said
on Friday, mind you, I said that I
expect chip selling and hardware selling
to continue. And this morning markets
were green. And I'm like, guys, this we
do this before the market opens up,
right? like guys the like don't trust
the pre-market going green this hardware
selling could keep going rapidly and
it's exactly what we've seen cororeweave
NBIS all of them falling off a cliff but
remember the Fed printing money is in
part designed to prop up money for
private credit so if private credit gets
propped up it funds banks who can then
fund the bonds for companies like Oracle
the problem is what you're about to see
we have big problems okay so understand
for a moment when The Fed prints money.
Their goal is to take this oracle side
of the cable over here, call my hand
over here, the Oracle side of the cable,
and they're like, "Guys, pump pump."
They're pushing money in, and they're
trying to be really aggressive over
here. But as you could see, that Oracle
side isn't moving that much. And then
you get dummies sometimes in the
comments like, "But Kevin, like somebody
literally wrote this comment the other
day, like, Kevin, all of Private Credit
could literally implode this weekend and
it wouldn't be a black swan." And I'm
like, you don't even know what you don't
even know. Like, you're so dumb. You
don't even realize how stupid that
comment is. Private credit is a $3.5
trillion industry. Okay? Our GDP is $25
trillion. So, if I take three and a half
and I divide that into 25 nominally,
private credit makes up 14% of the
economy. Now, add leverage. Yeah. Okay.
It's a really, really big problem. So
private credit issues are an issue and
the issue that we see with Oracle is as
a downstream recipient of private credit
funding, Oracle bonds are falling off a
cliff. Now unfortunately when Bond
Primis, this was shared on uh X, shout
out to uh special situations. I was
chatting with him on X this weekend. Uh
and you know he's making the argument he
posted these and he's like Kevin the
problem is when the 5-year bond and the
10-year bond for Oracle start falling
off a cliff. This right here is the uh
10-year bond for Oracle. When they start
falling off a cliff, what it means is
the market is demanding a higher premium
for these bonds. Okay, that's a fancy
way of basically saying people don't
want this debt. They need to be
compensated more for the risk. And
that's bad because unfortunately it
means they're going to have less
capacity to pick up money from Wall
Street. Those are selling at a 5%
discount on the 10-year. You want to see
the 30-year? This is the 30-year for
Oracle. The 30-year for Oracle, which is
right here, 2055 expiration. It is
selling at an 11 and a half% discount
because people do not want to bag hold
these assets. And this means even though
the Fed is trying to bail them out, it
may not actually be enough to make it
happen, which is scary. Now, I put this
together, which is Oracle CDS's. Now,
this is something else that's scary.
Okay, if you go back to 2008, all the
way to the left side, 2008, which I
don't have charted, but you'll see that
these CDS's peak out at about 128. Well,
right now the CDS's, you ready for this?
We ended up uh crossing the 128 line
over here last week, and then all of a
sudden, we just shot up even more. We're
at 148 right now on Oracle 5-year credit
default swaps. They're mooning. this
hedging that's going on against Oracle
is mooning right now. And so on Friday's
alpha report, I said, "Expect the chip
sell off to continue." Monday morning, I
said, "Don't trust the pre-market green
hardware sell off to continue." Uh, and
then of course, we're seeing premiums
fall for these. The problem with
premiums uh collapsing for these bonds
and the bonds selling at a discount is
that you basically and this is what
special situations and I were talking
about is basically Oracle is going to
have to pay more in interest to
compensate people for the extra risk.
Unfortunately that means they have to
take on more expensive debt to justify
their existence. The problem is Oracle
is legitimately telling you that they're
so broke that you should bring your own
chips. I mean, think about this. If you
go to some rich guy's house for a
Christmas party, is that rich, really
wealthy person going to tell you to
bring your own beer? No. BYOB is when
you've got normal, hardworking Americans
who just can't afford the luxury of
paying for alcohol for everyone. And
that's normal, okay? But the rich guy
inviting you over doesn't ask you to
bring your own beer. Okay? When you
start getting a little tight, that's
when you ask people to bring their own
beer. Okay? And it's fine. It's
reasonable. Like, don't be a freeloader.
Bring your own beer. Right? But when a
rich company like Oracle starts saying
it, it might be a problem because that's
literally what they're saying. Okay? If
you go to the earnings call on Oracle,
and this is crazy. I I like I my mind
was blown when I saw a rich company like
Oracle saying this in terms of funding
our growth. There are a variety of
sources available to us through our debt
structure in public bond bank and
private debt markets. Do you see what
I'm saying here? And and I haven't even
gotten to the zinger yet here, but
listen to what they're saying. We have
money available through private bond
market which is collapsing. We just saw
the charts. It's collapsing. bank and
private debt markets. Oh, you mean the
ones that the the blind people are
going, "H, private debt market doesn't
matter." No, it literally does. It
literally matters because even Oracle is
referencing it. And then in addition to
the public bond market, which is
tanking, credit default swaps, which are
indicating massive risk, and the private
debt market, which is panicking right
now, and the Fed is trying to bail it
out. In addition to all of that
happening, they say, "Oh, by the way, we
also have other financing options
through customers that may bring their
own chips to be installed in our data
centers." Wow, what a party host. Oracle
is literally now saying, "Bring your own
chips so that way we don't have to buy
them." They actually get asked about
this again later in the earnings call. I
like I wish I was making this up, but
you can't. You have an analyst that
says, "Hey, congratulations, blah, blah,
blah. Hey, uh question uh Clay or Doug.
Uh Oracle is clearly the destination of
choice for sophisticated AI customers.
Got to prop them up before you ask the
hard question, right? That's always if
you ever have to ask a hard question,
learn about framing, right? Oh, Donald
Trump, you're so great. You're the best
ever. Hey, just wondering, you know, how
come things aren't going so great with
Putin? By the way, love what you're
doing on Truth Social.
You know, it's all about framing, right?
It's a manipulation, right? So anyway,
uh but this is far more capital inensive
unlike any business Oracle has ever been
in before. Uh how do you guys raise the
funds for this AI growth ahead? Mind
you, at the same time, you've got this
plummeting going on in the bond market.
So basically in English, hey guys, this
is expensive. Okay, you ready for this?
All right, here we go. One of them is
that customers can actually bring their
own chips. In these models, Oracle
obviously doesn't have to incur any
capital expenditures upfront for that
model, aka don't worry, bring your own
chips. Uh so then they try to sell that
as we're uh chip agnostic and my
translation is Nabro. We just can't
finance this anymore and the bond market
is pissed. So now uh what I wrote over
here, well, let's get into their
fundamentals. What else did I write
here? Oh, I did I do have this quote
that I've had in my alpha reports since
September October. I've had in my alpha
reports at the bottom that Cororeweave,
Enbis, Oracle, and Iron have the writing
on the wall that these will be bag
holding companies. This is a direct
quote from my alpha reports that have
been, you know, published for like three
or four months. So, you know, I'm not
trying to shill anything. I'm just
simply trying to say like if you go back
to the day charts on these these
companies are roundt tripping literally
since I wrote these notes in September
and October that's when you got your
double top on NBIS that's when you
peaked out uh or nearly you had your
second essential peak out over here on
Coreweave uh after their IPO and that's
when you've double peaked out on Iron
all of them now selling off
substantially 9% in the day on Iron 6%
on Cororeweave 7% on on NBIS and So,
this writing is clearly on the wall that
these are the bag holding companies. You
know, Oracle's down another 2.8%. Uh,
Broadcom's down another 4.5%. The
writing's been on the wall, but take a
look at the finances because maybe you
don't believe that the bond market is
telling you a warning, right? The bond
market is screaming, "This is a
problem." Kevin has been screaming in
the alpha reports, "This is a problem."
I've also been screaming that the
Federal Reserve is trying to bail them
out, but they're pushing against the
string and it's it's not working right.
So I that's why I think this analogy is
useful. Like they're trying but they
just started Friday. They just started
running the money printer on Friday. So
it might be early like maybe the bailout
will start working. But understand this.
Go to the financials for Oracle. Okay.
The financials for Oracle show that
their plant property and equipment sit
at $67 billion. 67.
So, of course, their earnings per share
are going up because they're buying
actual data center equipment.
Fine. But the question is, where do they
get that money from? Right now, they
have $136 billion of debt. $136 billion
of debt works out to 7 years of
operating cash flow that these company
that these people like if they stopped
spending today, it would take them seven
years to pay off their debt. That's a
That's an eternity. That's a whole chip
life cycle. It's probably more than
that. But anyway, if you actually go to
their net operating activities, you
could find that they are in a six-month
period losing well, they're burning $10
billion in free cash flow, which means
they have to borrow money. And that's
exactly what they're doing on their cash
flow statement. You could see they've
borrowed $18 billion. They paid a little
bit uh $2.8 billion in dividends, so
about 15% of that. Then they issued
stock about 5% of that and they paid off
a little bit of debt about 10ish 12-ish%
of that. But they've net borrowed
massive amounts of money. They have net
borrowed and issued $19.3 billion less
than 2.8 in dividends, less than 2.1 in
debt payoff. They have net issued $14.4
billion, which is 140% of their negative
free cash flow. They are literally
borrowing. So, they're borrowing every
freaking penny to finance their their
capital expans the expansion of their
data centers. Now, I looked and I go,
but hey, like Wall Street is forecasting
that they're going to have net income of
$60 billion a year in 2030. Okay, that's
cute because if they had $60 billion a
year of net income in 2030 and they
stopped borrowing, they could pay off
their debt in like 2 years. In less than
2 and 1/2 years, they could pay off all
of their debt. But the problem is to get
to $60 billion of net income. We looked
it up together. We finally found what
Wall Street is forecasting for their
plant property and equipment growth.
Right here, this is the line. Wall
Street is forecasting that the 67
billion dollars that they have in data
centers right now is actually going to
rise to 86 next year, 136 and 27, 191
and 28, 241 and 29, 272 by 2030. So in
order to actually get $60 billion a year
of net income, they're going to have to
borrow another $25
billion.
That's why the bond market is freaking
out. That's why the bond market is
falling off a cliff because the bond
market is like, "Bro, you guys have 67
billion of data center exposure right
now. How in the world are you going to
get another $25 billion when right now
you're having to borrow at 140% of your
free cash flow? You're having to borrow
more than your negative free cash flow
just to sustain this business. At the
same time, you're trying to sell to
people, hey guys, um, yeah, bring your
own chips, boys. Well, if people start
bringing their own chips, guess what
happens? Your EPS forecasts go down even
more.
That's the problem. Now, yes, on a
valuation basis, they don't seem that
expensive right now, but that's because
the valuations assume the growth that
Wall Street is forecasting.
So if you use a price to earnings growth
multiple, this company's trading for
like a 08 on a PEG ratio, which is very
cheap. But you have to understand the
PEG ratio has the G in the denominator.
In English, if the growth goes down, the
whole formula gets ruined and they look
really, really expensive. And the bond
market is telling you poop's not doing
really well. So it's no surprise this
hardware selloff is continuing. Now if
you actually look at their their
fundamental earnings, you can also see
that PP is compressing at least
somewhat. Okay, so cloud margins used to
be gross cloud margins used to be 77%.
But they've actually compressed to
71.2%.
So they actually have shrinking pee pee,
>> little pee pee.
>> And nobody wants shrinking pee pee. So
at the same time, you have shrinking pee
pee. At the same time you're telling
people to bring their own ships. At the
same time the bond market is selling off
risk on this company. You have a company
that's saying oh we can rely on the
private credit markets on the bond
market. People are going really I don't
think so. And henceforth
we see the chip market dunking
coreweave, iron, nbby, Oracle, Broadcom.
Now that's obviously taking, you know,
the market down with it to some extent.
I mean, we were green like 70 basis
points this morning on the cues. Uh,
again, this isn't to to shill the alpha
membership. It's just to say we were
green this morning on the cues. And I'm
like, that's great, but like watch the
first five minutes because I wouldn't be
surprised if we see the chip selloff
continue as people rotate out of
hardware. The pre-market doesn't matter.
What matters is what institutions are
doing. And institutions don't see these
issues lightening up. Look at the JP
Morgan call. So, if you go and JP
Morgan's not my favorite, you'll know
that. But you can still see what their
credit analysts are saying, and they
obviously throw money around. Look at
this. Oracle is a show me story after
big debt bet. JP Morgan says JP Morgan
expects the company's bond pressure will
persist into the next year, which isn't
great. Uh on top of that, you've got uh
you know, the only people who are really
bullish on them are MLY Fool. And I know
there are a lot of people who aren't
really enthused about the mly fool, but
the mly fool is like, "Hey, there might
be some big uh speed bumps ahead, but uh
as long as you can weather this, maybe
uh and you believe they're making the
right long-term move, maybe you can pull
this off as a high conviction buy."
That's cute. But that's also where we
just have to ask ourselves, how many
data centers do we need for the same
freaking models?
Okay. Well, if we keep getting
improvements in artificial intelligence,
maybe this is all just a hiccup in the
road. You know, maybe the funding will
come through. This is the bullcase,
right? The bull case is the Federal
Reserve is able to print money. It
supports the private credit wos. The
private credit woes go away. Private
credit ends up with a lot of liquidity
and cash. The liquidity crisis ends
because the Federal Reserve is printing
money again. Private credit then goes
and funds the Oracle data center
expansion. And we need more data centers
because AI keeps getting more and more
powerful, powerful, powerful. Great.
That's the bullcase scenario. I mean, I
know there are bullcase scenarios for
artificial intelligence. We don't
actually need a lot of data center
capacity for our like productivity and
net worth boosting AI that we do at my
startup. That's househack.com. Uh,
reinvest.co. Same company. We just
raised, you know, we announced that
we're closing the fund raise at the end
of the year. We raised $940,000 in
effectively the two business days after
uh we announced that close, which is
awesome. Like, you know, people are
plowing money in which is great. We're
going to put it to great use. So like
there are winners in AI and I think like
we're part of that. I mean I I'm
grateful to say knock on wood that like
we're EPS profitable with this giant
boost that we got from artificial
intelligence of people buying our
product or our service. But anyway like
there will be winners in AI and there
will also be losers. But the problem is
a lot of this data center explosion is
leading a lot of people to get really
optimistic about things that could be
these really crazy long shots. Like
frankly, not only Oracle, but also if
you haven't seen it yet, I encourage you
watch my SpaceX video. So I made a
SpaceX video uh about the next 10X in in
uh data centers or whatever. And if you
jump in over here, the next 10x in
stocks, Elon Musk, you can watch that
video
>> and I talk about the SpaceX IPO, but we
talk about specifically data centers in
space, how people are talking about
this. We talk about the SpaceX
valuation. We talk about the Terminator
zone, basically 247 cooling, which is
great uh in in space, but I'm sorry, uh
uh power 24/7 power in space. But people
think that space cooling of chips will
be useful, but you actually introduce
new problems. You don't have air flow in
space and you need like ammonia based
cooling which is very damaging for
humans. So you need robots to be able to
really service the equipment which maybe
is good for Optimus robots if we can
make it there. But the question is all
this hype around data centers in space.
Is it being hyped up to help Elon Musk
sell SpaceX stock or do we actually need
the data centers? See, one of the big
downsides of SpaceX that people complain
about is, "Hey, yes, Starlink is great,
but do we actually need to send a lot of
cheap payloads to space?" And there's
competition for these payloads as well.
China's working on their reusable
rocket, obviously copying Elon. Uh Jeff
Bezos and Blue Origin just successfully
landed their reusable rocket. Obviously
copying Elon. GPS technology has gotten
really good, right? This is like, have
you ever done a drone like return to
home? It's kind of the same GPS
technology just on a much larger scale.
But anyway, uh it's not to downplay what
they're doing, but the point is like the
biggest objection to SpaceX investments
have been well, what are we actually
going to send to space when we can make
all these trips to space?
What about data centers? Great, great
sales pitch. Everybody be like, "Oh,
that's a great idea." As long as the
data center boom doesn't go bust. And
right now, we're at a really precarious
turning point where we're not sure if
the Federal Reserve's money printing is
going to be enough to support private
credit, to support the bond market, to
support Oracle, and support this
continued data center expansion. So
Oracle should really be an oracle of bad
things to come if this Fed money
printing doesn't work in bailout. So
this is scary that that is a very big
problem. So anyway, um it's also
possible that banks are just hedging
against data centers, right? Maybe
that's why the CAS's are going up. But
you need to raise debt to get their
earnings to actually continuously prove
that this company's expansion plans are
going to survive. Now again, valuation
wise, they actually seem dirt cheap. But
if for whatever reason our data center
needs collapse, all of these investments
go poopy dupy. And that is the big fear
is that Oracle investments go poopy
dupy. That means I ren go poopy dupy. If
they go poopy dupy, then Nvidia and AMD
go poopy dupy. Google TPU nobody cares
about anymore and all these custom chips
go poopies and then we don't need data
centers in space at least for the
foreseeable futures future. That's the
big risk factor and I think that's what
markets are really worried about right
now. And then people look and go, "Oh, I
guess it was in hindsight it was all a
bubble after all." Right?
So anyway, that's the situation. So he
says, "Data center under the ocean free
cooling." Yeah. Hey, you know, there are
a lot of different ideas for where to
put the data centers. The the the wild
thing is
there's also plenty of land on Earth and
we have planned out a whole lot of data
centers already. And the question is, is
it a sustainable level of spend? And
what most experts seem to point out when
it comes to studying history, so history
experts, is that you really can't have a
new revolution, like a new industrial
revolution without a bubble. So it's not
a matter of like will there be a bubble
anytime there is a change in an
industrial revolution whether it's cars
or radios or data centers there will
always be overinvestment
because capitalism is in part fueled by
optimism and hope uh and that leads to
overinvestment
over capitalization
and uh every single technological
revolution ends in a bubble. The big
question that people have right now is
well are we in a bubble now or are we
going into the bubble? JP Morgan,
Goldman Sachs, and um Morgan Stanley.
All of them argue that we are actually
not in a bubble yet. That we are going
into the bubble.
Unfortunately, the one thing that's
creating cause for concern is the
skyrocketing of credit default swaps at
Oracle, the plummeting of premiums on
Oracle bonds. Uh and you can't forget
the 102 spread. The 102 spread is
another issue. Remember this was the uh
the chart of the uh 30 uh the 10-year
and the 30-year bond for Oracle. But
then, you know, you factor into this as
well what you have with the 102 yield
curve over here now at 67 as well.
Exactly the same number as how much
Oracle has in plant property and
equipment. 67 billion. Just 67's just
everywhere right now. Uh but the
question is, is this a signal of greater
shock sensitivity coming? So, we'll see.
Maybe we're just in the expansion phase.
My hope is that the Federal Reserve's
money printing bails us out, but um
that's where we stand.
>> Why not advertise these things that you
told us here? I feel like nobody else
knows about this.
>> We'll we'll try a little advertising and
see how it goes.
>> Congratulations, man. You have done so
much. People love you. People look up to
you.
>> Kevin Praath there, financial analyst
and YouTuber. Meet Kevin. And always
great to get your take.
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