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Meta stock drops 10% as free cash flow gets crushed—and Zuckerberg hints at launching cloud business with few details
['Eva Roytburg']
Fortune | FORTUNE
Capital expenditure is now up to $31.1 billion in the quarter, nearly double the amount spent a year earlier.
Operating cash flow came to $31.9 billion; in other words, the company spent almost every dollar its businesses could generate on AI infrastructure: servers, data centers, network infrastructure, and chips.
Meta issued $24.9 billion of long-term debt during the quarter and bought back no stock, after repurchasing more than $10 billion a year earlier.
Meta now expects full-year capital expenditures of $130 billion to $145 billion, having raised the floor.
That leaves $39 billion to $47 billion a quarter for the rest of the year, against operating cash flow of roughly $32 billion.