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Research and development expenditure Big Tech

$MSFT (-0.25%) , $META (+0.41%) , $GOOGL (-0.28%) , $AAPL (-0.23%) , $AMZN (-0.34%)

The major technology companies spend 235 billion dollars a year on research and development.

That is a 6-fold increase compared to 10 years ago.

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Mister_ultra@Mister_ultra

These sums are simply insane and for me the big tech moat par excellence. Which company, let alone start-up, can raise such sums?

In my opinion, the only risk apart from regulation / break-up are the companies themselves. In the case of Meta $META, you could easily feel this 2-3 years ago with the Metaverse, when the market had the feeling that the company was backing the wrong horse. But even then, the normal advertising business was able to make up for the billions.

With Google's 47 billion, you could simply buy the entire Volkswagen Group instead...

I also wrote an article about this a few minutes ago. There was even talk of 500 billion for the Magnificent 7. Tesla and NVIDIA certainly have another large investment budget.

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