SEHK:700Interactive Media and Services
Tencent (SEHK:700) Stock Can AI Revenue Outrun A Cash Flow Crunch?
Tencent Holdings went into this earnings print with the stock drifting, down about 8% over the past week and 3% over both the past month and quarter, even as trailing earnings had grown and the P/E sat near 14x. The surprise was not on the income statement. The real jolt came from the cash flow statement, where a heavy artificial intelligence compute push turned second quarter free cash flow negative and cut net cash to RMB 58.2b. The market is now weighing that AI investment bill against...