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SoftBank's deepening commitment to OpenAI is drawing scrutiny from analysts who say the balance sheet tells a more complicated story than the stock price suggests. Rising debt levels and concentrated exposure to a single, pre-revenue AI bet are raising real questions about liquidity runway if market sentiment turns.
That OpenAI connection is also behind one of May's more dramatic equity moves. Oracle surged nearly forty percent last month, driven largely by its role as a core infrastructure partner to OpenAI. Cloud compute demand tied to large language model training has become a genuine revenue catalyst, and investors are pricing that relationship as a durable growth engine rather than a one-time tailwind.
Turning to the SpaceX IPO, Morningstar is throwing cold water on what could become the largest public offering in history. The firm's analyst puts fair value at roughly half the one point seven five trillion dollar asking valuation, arguing the hype surrounding Elon Musk's star power is doing more work than the fundamentals. The advice to disciplined investors is straightforward — let the retail enthusiasm exhaust itself and revisit at a more rational entry point.
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