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by mikeryan 3 days ago
Google also just announced a new equity raise of $80B. I have no idea if doing this via equity vs debt is trying to suck some of the wind out of the IPO Market for Anthropic and OpenAI but it’s going to be interesting to see how the markets deal with all the new equity being floated. Someone isn’t going to hit their raise targets and the later IPOs may be the ones holding the bag.
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The $80B of equity raise is nothing compared to its previous share buyback programs.
It looks like they've done annual buybacks of about $70b the last few years, so your claim doesn't really hold water.