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🚨 Alert #560 Thu Jul-23 13:11:05
Google records its first negative free cash flow since going public as its AI spending explodes
Alphabet reported its first negative quarterly free cash flow since going public and raised its 2026 capital expenditure guidance to $205 billion, causing its stock to decline in after-hours trading.
🎯 Tickers & verdicts
| ticker | direction | verdict | since close | 30m | day lo | day hi | intraday px |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| primary GOOGL | ▼ bearish | PRICED | -6.33% | +0.10% | 317.18 | 327.20 | |
| META | · unclear | PRICED | -4.47% | -0.27% | 601.39 | 619.60 | |
| AMZN | · unclear | PRICED | -3.33% | -0.28% | 233.05 | 240.93 | |
| peer MSFT | · unclear | PRICED | -2.33% | +0.03% | 379.86 | 390.51 | |
| AVGO | ▲ bullish | PRICED | +2.13% | -0.12% | 388.83 | 398.61 | |
| NVDA | ▲ bullish | PRICED | +1.48% | +0.23% | 207.02 | 211.05 | |
| TSM | ▲ bullish | PRICED | -1.25% | -0.12% | 413.20 | 422.67 | |
| AMD | · unclear | FRESH | +0.73% | +0.02% | 527.16 | 557.20 | |
| MU | ▲ bullish | FRESH | +0.18% | -0.16% | 960.22 | 1008.47 |
🧭 Decisions
| strategy | ticker | action | side | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | GOOGL | ○ skip | — | verdict PRICED — Δ prev close -6.33% · Δ 30m +0.10% · px 325.19 (prev 347.15) → close -1.98% |
| S2 | - | ○ skip | — | no counterparty in universe |
| S3 | MSFT | ○ skip | — | direction unclear for MSFT → close -1.76% |
| S4 | GOOGL | ○ skip | — | verdict PRICED — Δ prev close -6.33% · Δ 30m +0.10% · px 325.19 (prev 347.15) |
📈 Trades
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📖 Glossary
- S1 primary — trades the alert's primary ticker in the direction the article itself indicates; exits at the same day's close.
- S2 counterparty — trades the inferred counterparty ticker (weakest signal, LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
- S3 peer — trades an inferred peer ticker (also LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
- S4 overnight — holds the primary ticker from today's close to the NEXT day's close.
- Verdicts are decided top-to-bottom, first match wins; REPRICING is also the fallback when nothing else matches (2026-08-08 #220).
- UNKNOWN — a needed price input (move since close or move in the last 30m) is missing.
- PRICED — |move since previous close| ≥ 2.0%: already reflected in price.
- REPRICING — |move in the last 30m| ≥ 0.5%: the tape is actively moving on it. Also covers a quieter move — |move since previous close| in [1.0, 2.0) with a quiet last-30m tape: still developing, not yet priced.
- FRESH — |move since previous close| < 1.0%: a genuinely new move.
- materiality — how market-moving the story was judged, 0-100 — alerts require materiality ≥ 60.