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- 0:24Speaker 2: Once again, you know, leading kind of the winners out
- 0:27Speaker 2: there in the world. Is Nvidia just extraordinary accomplishment today
- 0:31Speaker 2: reaching five trillion dollars in market captains always always news
- 0:37Speaker 2: around this story. Michael Sheppard joins US Bloomberg Senior editor
- 0:40Speaker 2: for Technology and Strategic Industries. Michael, first of all, just
- 0:45Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess it's just a number, but boy,
- 0:47Speaker 2: five trillion dollars suggests that this market continues to see
- 0:51Speaker 2: extraordinary value in this thing we call AI. What do
- 0:54Speaker 2: you make of it?
- 0:55Speaker 3: Well, you can see not only in the share price
- 0:59Speaker 3: which is more well above forty percent this year, but
- 1:03Speaker 3: you really can sense the enthusiasm for artificial intelligence and
- 1:07Speaker 3: all the capex that has gone into it. We're going
- 1:09Speaker 3: to be hearing later today from some of the Hyperscaler's
- 1:13Speaker 3: Microsoft Meta and Amazon reporting results, and they are some
- 1:16Speaker 3: of the biggest buyers of Nvidia's technology, so there is
- 1:20Speaker 3: a real symbiosis and we haven't seen any slowdown from them.
- 1:24Speaker 3: We'll get some signaling after the results come out in
- 1:27Speaker 3: their various conference calls about what their plans are for
- 1:32Speaker 3: investment in this area going forward. But at least based
- 1:36Speaker 3: on yesterday's GtC event here in Washington, the big industry
- 1:42Speaker 3: comfab sponsored by Nvidia, we're really getting a sense of
- 1:45Speaker 3: no sign of an end to the momentum. And Jensen
- 1:48Speaker 3: Wang was emphatic and saying that he sees no sign
- 1:51Speaker 3: of a bubble coming and that he expects another five
- 1:55Speaker 3: hundred billion in revenue over the next five quarters tied
- 1:59Speaker 3: to all of that.
- 2:00Speaker 4: I'm so glad you bring that up because we wanted
- 2:02Speaker 4: to play some sound from that conversation Jensen Wog, the
- 2:05Speaker 4: CEO of Vidia, had with our Ed Ludlow, Bloomberg Tech
- 2:08Speaker 4: co host ed spoke with both Jensen Wang and Nokia's
- 2:12Speaker 4: CEO Justin Hothard.
- 2:13Speaker 5: Let's take a listen.
- 2:14Speaker 6: I don't believe we're inn AI bubble, and the reason
- 2:16Speaker 6: for that is we're going through a natural transition from
- 2:20Speaker 6: an old computing model based on general purpose computing to
- 2:23Speaker 6: accelerated computing. We also know that AI has now become
- 2:28Speaker 6: good enough because of reasoning capability, research capabilities, its ability
- 2:32Speaker 6: to think. It's now generating tokens and now generating intelligence
- 2:36Speaker 6: that's worth paying for.
- 2:39Speaker 4: Mike, What gets my attention is Jensen Hang coming out
- 2:41Speaker 4: and saying definitively that he does not think there's an
- 2:44Speaker 4: AI bubble. Do you think any of the CEOs of
- 2:46Speaker 4: the three companies that are reporting today the two that
- 2:48Speaker 4: are reporting tomorrow are likely to go out on a
- 2:51Speaker 4: lim and.
- 2:51Speaker 3: Say that, you know, they have put so much into
- 2:55Speaker 3: artificial intelligence themselves that they would be loath to issue
- 2:59Speaker 3: any kind of a bubble warning. That'll come much more
- 3:02Speaker 3: from the outsiders. The interesting thing, though, is when Nvidio
- 3:07Speaker 3: talks about AI, it is not thinking just chet, GPT
- 3:12Speaker 3: and the other chatbots that we are familiar with. They're
- 3:15Speaker 3: talking about so many more things and uses. And one
- 3:19Speaker 3: priority for Jensen Wong is really to accelerate the adoption
- 3:23Speaker 3: of artificial intelligence across the economy in a variety of platforms.
- 3:27Speaker 3: It ranges from robotics to cybersecurity to business automation, all
- 3:32Speaker 3: sorts of things that they were talking about and really
- 3:36Speaker 3: infused all the partnerships in deals that the company was
- 3:39Speaker 3: announcing yesterday. Let's we could do a quick review, Scarlett.
- 3:42Speaker 5: It's Uber, it's.
- 3:44Speaker 3: Lucid when it comes to transportation, it's CrowdStrike when it
- 3:48Speaker 3: comes to cybersecurity, it's Palenteer when it comes to business automation.
- 3:51Speaker 3: So the company really is not only trying to push
- 3:54Speaker 3: this narrative, but it's trying to show it as well.
- 3:57Speaker 3: And they even began to talk about some of the EDUCASEU.
- 4:00Speaker 3: This is for quantum computing, which is another area of
- 4:03Speaker 3: keen interest for investors, and it's been an area that
- 4:06Speaker 3: Nvidia has been edging toward in the past few years.
- 4:09Speaker 2: Michael, there are some investors out there that are obviously
- 4:12Speaker 2: a little reticent about this whole AI story and the
- 4:15Speaker 2: momentum behind it, and maybe they want to tap the
- 4:17Speaker 2: brakes every once in a while. And I think their
- 4:19Speaker 2: argument is basically, Okay, I get to be expending by
- 4:23Speaker 2: the hyperscalers, but what's their return on investment? Again, every
- 4:26Speaker 2: once in a while we hear from those people. Where
- 4:28Speaker 2: do you think that narrative is today?
- 4:30Speaker 3: Well, it remains one of the big questions. When does
- 4:33Speaker 3: revenue actually become something measurable and tied to artificial intelligence
- 4:39Speaker 3: use and Jensawong was trying to point yesterday to look,
- 4:43Speaker 3: AI has not only the use case, but it is
- 4:45Speaker 3: actually starting to pay off. The models are starting to
- 4:48Speaker 3: pay off, and this is why he sees the world
- 4:52Speaker 3: not being in a bubble right now. But it is
- 4:55Speaker 3: something that companies will have to try to demonstrate more
- 4:59Speaker 3: visibly as they release results to justify all the expenditures
- 5:04Speaker 3: that they had been making on data centers and on
- 5:07Speaker 3: all the technology that goes into them to power these
- 5:10Speaker 3: models that they intend to use.
- 5:12Speaker 4: All right, Michael Shepherd, really appreciate your joining us and
- 5:15Speaker 4: giving us a wrap up of what we're seeing right
- 5:17Speaker 4: now in video. Once again, five trillion dollars in market
- 5:21Speaker 4: cap five trillion, Paul.
- 5:22Speaker 5: That is a lot of zeros.
- 5:24Speaker 2: That is and when you see the movements in these stocks,
- 5:27Speaker 2: I'm just thinking some of these big tech stocks that
- 5:28Speaker 2: have been announcing these big investments with each other and CHAP, GPT,
- 5:33Speaker 2: and the amount of dollars, the absolute dollars of gains
- 5:36Speaker 2: and losses in the stock market every day on some
- 5:38Speaker 2: of these names is staggering because you are, you know,
- 5:40Speaker 2: a five percent movement a four billion dollar for trillion
- 5:43Speaker 2: dollar market cap stock.
- 5:45Speaker 4: That's real money, right, And the spending that they're all
- 5:47Speaker 4: doing on products or services and things like chips from
- 5:51Speaker 4: each other that is responsible for a big chunk of
- 5:53Speaker 4: the GDP as well. So if anyone slows down their
- 5:56Speaker 4: spending just a little bit or pulls back a little bit,
- 5:58Speaker 4: that could have a ripple effect.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Stay with us. More from Bloomberg Intelligence coming up after this.
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- 6:22Speaker 2: One of the earnings is that there's Caterpillar. Are good
- 6:24Speaker 2: friends at Cat? Statchup thirteen percent today, fifty two week high.
- 6:29Speaker 2: I think the market likes what they heard from Caterpillar.
- 6:32Speaker 2: Let's bring in Chris Chiolino. He covers all those big
- 6:35Speaker 2: industrial companies for Bloomberg Intelligence. Chris, talk to us about Cat.
- 6:39Speaker 2: What do we hear from them today?
- 6:41Speaker 7: It was a great quarter, you know, despite pretty elevated
- 6:44Speaker 7: expectations coming into the print, a bigger tariff headwind, Cat
- 6:49Speaker 7: really delivered very solid three key results. It is really
- 6:52Speaker 7: driven by higher volumes across all three of their core businesses,
- 6:57Speaker 7: with particular strength and energy and transportation. Again, but I think,
- 7:01Speaker 7: you know, one of the more encouraging signs that we
- 7:03Speaker 7: took away from the results this morning were that orders
- 7:07Speaker 7: accelerated here in the quarter, and we also saw a
- 7:09Speaker 7: backlog improved sequentially to a record forty billion dollars. So
- 7:14Speaker 7: we think we see you know, above average production and
- 7:17Speaker 7: earnings visibility as we begin to think about next year.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Did the company say a lot about the power producing
- 7:24Speaker 4: equipment including turbines and generators that have investors excited about
- 7:28Speaker 4: it being kind of a derivative play to the AI story.
- 7:31Speaker 7: Absolutely, so, you know, we continue to hear more and
- 7:35Speaker 7: more about AI and data centers and Cat's exposure there. Today,
- 7:40Speaker 7: you know, power gens probably you know, roughly thirty percent
- 7:43Speaker 7: of the energy and transportation business, roughly you know, fifteen
- 7:46Speaker 7: percent of the overall enterprise, but it continues to be
- 7:49Speaker 7: the fastest growing part of the portfolio. They're bringing on
- 7:53Speaker 7: a lot of capacity here over these next three years.
- 7:56Speaker 7: I think you really begin to see a step change
- 7:58Speaker 7: as we move into twenty twenty seven. And particularly on
- 8:01Speaker 7: the on the large engine side. So there is more
- 8:04Speaker 7: of a focus and investment on the energy and transportation
- 8:08Speaker 7: business and it has become, you know, the biggest part
- 8:11Speaker 7: of their portfolio.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Wow, are there other companies or let me put it
- 8:14Speaker 2: this way, who does cat compete with in that segment
- 8:17Speaker 2: of the business.
- 8:19Speaker 7: Yeah, So there's a number of different competitors, and it
- 8:22Speaker 7: really breaks down on relative by size on some of
- 8:26Speaker 7: the gen sets. Cummins is a is a big one,
- 8:29Speaker 7: Siemens Energy, and then you also have a few other
- 8:33Speaker 7: European and Asian players. But you know, this is certainly
- 8:38Speaker 7: a market that's growing, you know, pretty exponentially. Here. Backlogs
- 8:41Speaker 7: extend several years, so we think we have pretty good
- 8:44Speaker 7: visibility at least through you know, the next three years.
- 8:47Speaker 4: Does this part of the business mean that Caterpillar will
- 8:50Speaker 4: need to rely more on domestic market opportunities as opposed
- 8:54Speaker 4: to global market opportunities.
- 8:57Speaker 7: So their footprint is the largest, the energy transportation footprint
- 9:01Speaker 7: is the largest in North America, but you know, I
- 9:04Speaker 7: think the opportunity is global. They are a large global
- 9:08Speaker 7: producer that they serve you know, essentially almost all markets
- 9:11Speaker 7: around the world. I think even particularly with an energy
- 9:14Speaker 7: and transportation It's like something like one hundred different countries.
- 9:16Speaker 7: So while I think the immediate near term excitement is
- 9:20Speaker 7: more focused here in North America, I do think longer
- 9:23Speaker 7: term there's an opportunity international as well.
- 9:25Speaker 2: What's what's the company saying about the impact, if any,
- 9:29Speaker 2: on tariffs on their business now going forward?
- 9:33Speaker 7: Yeah, so tariffs were actually a much bigger headwind than
- 9:36Speaker 7: we anticipated in the quarter, and even KAT I think
- 9:39Speaker 7: it kind of shook out somewhere around a six hundred
- 9:41Speaker 7: million dollar headwind in three Q. But margins, margins were
- 9:46Speaker 7: better than expected, really pretty remarkably resilient despite these price
- 9:50Speaker 7: costs headwinds. Four Q will actually see a step up
- 9:54Speaker 7: in the tariff costs. And then as we think about
- 9:58Speaker 7: next year, you know, Kat's really been kind of kind
- 10:00Speaker 7: of hesitant to pull the pricing lever on a lot
- 10:03Speaker 7: of tariffs thus far. We think that's you know, more
- 10:05Speaker 7: of an opportunity for them here in the near term
- 10:08Speaker 7: to gain some market share. So as we think about
- 10:10Speaker 7: twenty twenty six, it'll be interesting to see, you know,
- 10:12Speaker 7: do they continue to offset through more costs and productivity efficiencies,
- 10:17Speaker 7: or do they lean into pricing a little bit more,
- 10:19Speaker 7: but tariffs will step up here in the near term,
- 10:22Speaker 7: and then you know, twenty twenty six, it still remains
- 10:24Speaker 7: to be seen, but I'd expect a demand backdrop to improve,
- 10:27Speaker 7: so they certainly should have the opportunity to push pricing
- 10:30Speaker 7: a little bit more aggressively next year.
- 10:32Speaker 5: Wow, six hundred million dollars is no small change when
- 10:35Speaker 5: it comes to tariff impact.
- 10:36Speaker 2: And they these companies are finding margin improvement in other areas.
- 10:40Speaker 2: I guess it's really amazing.
- 10:42Speaker 5: All right, Thank you so much for speaking with us.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Chris Fergiolino is Bloomberg Intelligence senior US machinery analysts on
- 10:48Speaker 4: Caterpillars earnings and the stock right now of about thirteen
- 10:51Speaker 4: percent training at five hundred and ninety three dollars off
- 10:54Speaker 4: fifty side all time high.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Stay with us. More from Bloomberg Intelligence coming up after this.
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- 11:17Speaker 4: One of the laggards in the Downdustrials is Boeing, it's
- 11:21Speaker 4: taking twenty six points off of the off of the
- 11:24Speaker 4: Downdustrials is two hundred and thirty point gain, and part
- 11:28Speaker 4: of that is because of its latest earnings report. Let's
- 11:30Speaker 4: bring in George Ferguson, who of course covers Boeing among
- 11:33Speaker 4: other aerospace, defense and airlines companies for Bloomberg Intelligence, and George,
- 11:38Speaker 4: I thought Boeing was in turnaround mode.
- 11:40Speaker 5: Do the report? Do the latest earnings back that idea up?
- 11:44Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 11:44Speaker 8: I think it did.
- 11:45Speaker 2: So.
- 11:46Speaker 8: You know what I saw from earnings today is that
- 11:49Speaker 8: the commercial airplane business had about a four hundred thirty
- 11:54Speaker 8: million dollar loss from your back out that about five
- 11:56Speaker 8: billion dollar charge for triple seven. That number was a
- 12:00Speaker 8: bit better than consensus, a little bit better than what
- 12:03Speaker 8: we were looking for. I think it's another sign that
- 12:06Speaker 8: commercial airplane is getting closer to break even. And then
- 12:11Speaker 8: in the cash flow statement, Boeing was cash flow positive
- 12:15Speaker 8: and at an operating level and free cash flow it
- 12:18Speaker 8: was about a billion dollars in the operating level and
- 12:21Speaker 8: free cash flow a couple hundred million. I think that
- 12:25Speaker 8: you know, that's above where consensus expected it. We saw
- 12:28Speaker 8: five billion dollars an inventory get unlocked during the quarter,
- 12:33Speaker 8: meaning you know, Boeing has been sitting on something like
- 12:36Speaker 8: ninety billion dollars inventory because like eighty seven I think
- 12:40Speaker 8: was exact number, and that came down to eighty two
- 12:44Speaker 8: billion because they've been buying from suppliers, putting things on
- 12:47Speaker 8: shelves as they try to keep the supply base healthy
- 12:50Speaker 8: while they've been going through some of their challenges here,
- 12:53Speaker 8: and now they're starting to take that, you know, that
- 12:55Speaker 8: inventory off the shelves put it into airplanes. That's that's
- 12:59Speaker 8: going to hyper drive some of the cash generation of
- 13:02Speaker 8: Boeing as they bring that inventory I think down to
- 13:05Speaker 8: probably a sixty or fifty billion dollar level. So I
- 13:09Speaker 8: think those are both big positives in the charge was
- 13:12Speaker 8: largely non cash for an airplane that I think is
- 13:14Speaker 8: still very competitive, just gets delayed a bit.
- 13:18Speaker 2: All right, how about the deliveries of the seven thirty seven.
- 13:20Speaker 2: What's the guidance there, George, because we know that's the
- 13:22Speaker 2: big cash driver.
- 13:23Speaker 8: I think, yeah, so they're you know, Boeing's kind of
- 13:27Speaker 8: out of the game of giving guidance right now. But
- 13:30Speaker 8: they've they said, you know, the FAAS allowed them to
- 13:32Speaker 8: go to forty two a month build rate, which would
- 13:35Speaker 8: be above what they've done in the last quarter. I
- 13:39Speaker 8: think we've got a modeled at about forty four or
- 13:41Speaker 8: forty five per month for the next three months. It's
- 13:44Speaker 8: because there's still some inventory airplanes they'll deliver as as
- 13:48Speaker 8: well as what they're building. Just heard Kelly Orpburg say
- 13:52Speaker 8: on the call that he would anticipate sort of cranking
- 13:57Speaker 8: up those build rates from forty two in income it's
- 14:00Speaker 8: of five every six months. No sooner obviously won't break
- 14:05Speaker 8: unless they feel like they've got things stabilized. So I
- 14:08Speaker 8: think we've got a path here to hire build rates over,
- 14:12Speaker 8: you know, to the end of the decade. So you know,
- 14:16Speaker 8: I would expect that as they get a year down
- 14:18Speaker 8: the road here will be probably break even in this business,
- 14:22Speaker 8: you know, maybe a little bit longer, but I think
- 14:24Speaker 8: we'll be break even in that business. And again that's
- 14:26Speaker 8: I think all part of the turnaround is getting seven
- 14:29Speaker 8: three seven to perform. That's that's going to be the
- 14:32Speaker 8: financial driver.
- 14:34Speaker 4: So Kelly Orpbrook has now been CEO for just over
- 14:37Speaker 4: a year. He started in August of twenty twenty four.
- 14:39Speaker 4: I can't believe it's been that long already, I know
- 14:41Speaker 4: I know, and a lot has happened clearly, And what
- 14:44Speaker 4: I didn't realize is that Boeing is still facing some
- 14:48Speaker 4: labor issues. Saint Louis Aria machinists still strike.
- 14:52Speaker 5: They've been striking for more than three months.
- 14:54Speaker 4: What does this say about Kelly Orberg's leadership and what
- 14:57Speaker 4: kind of grade would you give him, George for his
- 14:59Speaker 4: leadership so far?
- 15:01Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I'd give him a very high grade.
- 15:03Speaker 8: Right again, I think that, you know, the biggest thing
- 15:07Speaker 8: he needed to do was like improve morale, improve quality,
- 15:12Speaker 8: and it appears to you know, to be the case.
- 15:16Speaker 8: I think, you know, the proof is again build rates
- 15:20Speaker 8: the FA, returning some uh you know, giving Boeing the
- 15:24Speaker 8: ability to go to forty two, and returning some of
- 15:26Speaker 8: their ability to certify some of the airplanes. So I
- 15:30Speaker 8: think i'd give it all high in Saint Louis right now,
- 15:33Speaker 8: you know, Saint Louis is where the defense business is centered.
- 15:36Speaker 8: Out of right now, the defense business not performing great,
- 15:39Speaker 8: but getting better.
- 15:42Speaker 3: You know.
- 15:42Speaker 8: I think there's there's definitely more to come in the
- 15:45Speaker 8: defense business as they start building the F forty seven,
- 15:48Speaker 8: which is the sixth generation fighter that they won, but
- 15:51Speaker 8: that's still some preliminary work. My guess is that the
- 15:55Speaker 8: sides are still a little bit a part on, you know,
- 15:58Speaker 8: where they want to be for an a green and
- 16:00Speaker 8: it's not as critical to get those folks back to
- 16:03Speaker 8: the production lines as it was to get a commercial
- 16:07Speaker 8: seven thirty seven machinists back to production lines. So he's
- 16:11Speaker 8: probably doing the right thing for the business here, and
- 16:14Speaker 8: you know, making sure he can get an agreement he
- 16:15Speaker 8: can live with, especially in defense where it's harder to
- 16:18Speaker 8: bear increased costs. And again i'd give him, I'd give
- 16:22Speaker 8: him high grades. I think the company's at a turnaround
- 16:25Speaker 8: right now and doing well.
- 16:26Speaker 5: George about the thirty seconds left.
- 16:27Speaker 2: Just we don't talk about the triple seven much. How
- 16:29Speaker 2: does that kind of figure into their portfolio, into the
- 16:32Speaker 2: economics of Boeing.
- 16:34Speaker 8: Yeah, when it finally gets certified, it'll be the biggest
- 16:37Speaker 8: airplane in production, so it kind of replaces seven four
- 16:41Speaker 8: seven and eight three eighty as the Queen of the skies,
- 16:45Speaker 8: A three fifty tosh one thousands, the closest competitor. It
- 16:48Speaker 8: can't it can't be as densified, it can't have as
- 16:51Speaker 8: many seats inside it, So I think you'll find a
- 16:54Speaker 8: seat cost advantage in the Triple seven. It's got core
- 16:57Speaker 8: customers in those you know, in those Lee's carriers, those
- 17:01Speaker 8: Asian carriers that are the big sort of East West connectors.
- 17:07Speaker 8: And I think it'll be fine. I think that delay
- 17:10Speaker 8: we won't hurt its ability to be sold. And it's
- 17:12Speaker 8: already got five hundred in the backlog.
- 17:13Speaker 2: And I'll put my order in for the surveillance Triple
- 17:16Speaker 2: seven for tom My favorite.
- 17:17Speaker 4: You know, I'll need one of those.
- 17:18Speaker 2: George, thanks so much for joining us. George ferguson Senior Aerospace,
- 17:21Speaker 2: Defense and Airlines anists. And if it flies, George covers
- 17:25Speaker 2: it for Bloomberg Intelligence. That's kind of how I think
- 17:27Speaker 2: about it.
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