Amazon’s Extreme AI Spending Sends Stock to Worst Month in Years
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Amazon's stock has seen a 12% decline in February, its worst month in years, due to concerns over the company's aggressive AI spending plans and its impact on free cash flow.
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Market impact analysis based on bearish sentiment with 90% confidence.
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Shares of the e-commerce and cloud computing giant plunged 12% in February, their worst month since December 2022, as Wall Street takes an increasingly jaundiced view of the company’s aggressive AI spending plans. Not only are the capital expenditures eating into Amazon’s free cash flow, but market pros are growing impatient about when they’ll pay off in dramatic fashion. The stock also was the worst performer of the so-called Magnificent Seven technology behemoths last month and among the 40 weakest companies in the S&P 500.
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Original article published by Yahoo Finance on March 2, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.