meta brought in $64.6B last quarter and its free cash flow still came out negative...
the business generated $32.79B in operating cash
capex, counting finance leases, was $34.91B
so free cash flow landed at -$2.12B, a year ago it was +$10.6B
and they still expect $135B to $145B of capex for 2026 (Meta Q3 2026 results)
the nasdaq lost 2.6% today and the dow still closed green, up 0.02%
same market, two totally different days. AI stocks got sold and a lot of boring stocks got bought
nasdaq -2.6% to 26,009
s&p 500 -1.21% to 7,663
dow +0.02% to 52,868
(yahoo finance)
meta fell 7% even after beating on revenue, $64.6B vs $63.4B expected (cnbc)
the spark was meta unveiling a new class of non-voting shares to help pay for its AI buildout (reuters)
chips took the worst of it. the philly semi index dropped 6.7%, lam research fell 11.8% and nvidia 4.4%
spacex gave back 9.1%, more than all of wednesday's pop
meanwhile the boring side had a great day
p&g +5.6% after beating on sales and profit
blackstone +8.4% after profit topped estimates, with $1.368T under management (cnbc)
and moderna fell 17.6% after its cancer vaccine data leaked early, even though it showed a 42% lower risk of melanoma coming back or death (cnbc, investing.com)
the 10-year yield slipped under 5% for the first time since sept 23 (reuters)
money mostly moved out of AI and into everything else today
sources
closes and % moves: finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EI…
meta, lam, p&g, blackstone: cnbc.com/2026/10/22/stocks-m…
meta non-voting shares, 10-year yield: live.euronext.com/en/financi…
moderna: cnbc.com/2026/10/22/moderna-…
companies have bought 135,979 btc in about a year with money raised from perpetual preferred stock...
that's over 0.5% of all bitcoin, and $7B+ of it was raised in just march to may
fidelity's own caveat: it only works if btc rises faster than the dividends cost (Fidelity Digital Assets)


