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<= span style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;">Priced for perfection= =3F The tech-led rally since October lifted many tech stocks = to new highs, setting the bar high. After the bell yesterday we got solid r= esults from Mag 7 members Microsoft and Alphabet, plus AI darling AMD. Yet stocks are down in trading today.

 

= Mister Softy reported= sales jumped 18% to $62 billion. That=E2=80=99s impressive growth= given Microsoft=E2=80=99s size. Earnings per share rose 26% in Q4 to $2.93= . Double-digit growth, with earnings growing faster than revenue, is what = we want to see. However, investors yawned following the report as analysts = updated their outlooks.

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Alphabet was no slouch, eit= her. The Google parent=E2=80=99s sales jumped 13% to $86.3 bi= llion, while EPS rose 42% to $1.61. Yet the shares tumbled 6%.


And what about AMD=3F=  Advanced Micro Devices posted 10% revenue growth to $6.2 bil= lion, and earnings improved 12% to $0.77. Not bad, right=3F But the shares = are down because guidance wasn=E2=80=99t as good as investors had hoped.


Blockbuster= offer. Reports suggest Allen Media Group offered $14.3 billion to acqui= re Paramount Global. Paramount has been rumored to be on the block amid lac= kluster financials. It hasn=E2=80=99t reported Q4 yet, but revenue grew onl= y 3% year-over-year in the third quarter, and earnings fell by 23%.<= /p>

 

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Microsoft touted the potential for AI to boost its longer-t= erm profits, but it noted that costs would rise in the near term as a resul= t.

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