AI investment and resilient priority spending support growth, while workflow automation and cloud adoption widen software demand.
Uneven budgets, execution bottlenecks, and soft services demand temper the AI-led growth narrative and raise estimate risk.
Demand. Mgmt cited widespread demand and pipelines growing “extremely well,” with no macro caution. It did not quantify 2027 IT budgets and made no comment on tariffs. Federal had an outstanding seasonal 3Q ($1M+ deals +30% y/y; Federal CRM 6x), and Federal...
NOW: BNP partner checks reinforce AI governance + Control Tower upside; adoption broadening beyond core IT
BNP’s ServiceNow World Forum checks were broadly positive, with customers/partners highlighting NOW’s role in governing and automating AI workflows and one customer citing ~30–40% IT help-desk savings. Control Tower adoption remains very early but interest...
META is seeking another ~6.5GW by YE28, ORCL has resumed leasing with NVDA credit support which Cowen views as an indication of future RPO growth, and GOOGL/MSFT remain active. The bigger issue is execution: 2027 equipment slots are already oversold, build...
OpenAI, and META seeking another ~6.5GW by YE28. The bottleneck is shifting from demand to delivery: 2027 equipment slots are already oversold, Texas/Ohio permitting could delay capacity, and the US capacity contracted since 1Q25 implies ~$2.25T of building...
MS framed it as above SA’s prior +43GW, but RJ argued it’s apples-to-oranges, since the headline is total DC including non-AI while the 43GW was AI-only. He backed into ~30GW of US AI IT capacity: ~38GW of US shells, less non-AI, less the lag between shell...
MS says CY26 IT Services growth expectations edged up to +2.0% y/y, but CY27 remains flat at +2.0% vs. total IT budgets +4.0%.
NVDA -1.3% held in better than the group despite MSFT’s Maia 300 (”same type of news from a Hyperscaler that pops up 2-3x a year,” per Akh in Slack here). Reminder, NVDA says its share of top-5 hyperscaler IT capex rose to 38% in 2Q26 from 11% at the s...
BNP says the U.S. suspension of some tech companies from the employment-based green-card/PERM program should have minimal impact on IT-services delivery, as green cards are not critical to staffing and dependence on H-1B visas has already fallen materially....
JPM says a large distributor/MSFT CSP expects Copilot penetration ~7x by FY-end as relaunch/free trials reduce friction, with Cowork/Code adding consumption rather than displacing frontier models. Renewal recapture is ~130–140% vs. ~125% baseline, E7 is acc...
GS says after meeting CEO Adam Norwitt, CFO Craig Lampo and VP Strategy & IR Sherri Scribner, management remains bullish on AI infrastructure with both copper and fiber content expected to stay important as architectures scale. CommScope meaningfully expand...
cyber budgets still outpacing broader IT spend at ~15% growth vs. ~7% and spending priorities centered on identity and AI-related security. The partner was most bullish on PANW and CRWD: PANW is tracking well ahead of expectations with strong SASE, cloud se...
IT Hardware industry view to In-Line from Cautious. Morgan Stanley says its AlphaWise survey shows the hardware recovery is being driven by refresh, pull-forward and AI rather than being derailed by component inflation, supporting a longer—though still cycl...
KLAC did not discuss conventional enterprise IT budgets directly; the relevant IT-spend signal was hyperscaler and AI infrastructure capex, which remains very strong.
BNP’s quarterly reseller survey found cybersecurity remained the top IT spending priority over the past three months, while Datadog sales tracked a few points above plan on product functionality, competitive wins and strength in infrastructure monitoring, A...
IT SPENDING: MSFT/AMZN Lead Bernstein CIO Survey as AI Spending Stays Strong but U.S. H2 Expectations Weaken
Bernstein’s mid-year CIO survey still points to strong 2026 IT budget growth, but U.S. respondents cut second-half expectations while European CIOs turned more constructive. Cybersecurity, GenAI applications and platform software remain the top priorities,...
The firm views CDW as one of the cleanest ways to play accelerating server demand and believes concerns around broader IT spending weakness are overstated. Morgan Stanley expects positive estimate revisions to return in 2H26 as investors increasingly recogn...
IBM: Hearing Clev saying Q2 tracking slightly below plan driven by weakness in Consulting as overall IT services
IT services names weaker: CTSH/ACN -2-3%.
KeyBanc's 4Q25 IT VAR survey indicated solid channel conditions, with 81% of partners meeting or beating plans, an increase from 74% in 3Q, and a modestly better-than-expected 4Q budget flush.
Expectations for 2026 IT budget growth improved by approximately 100 basis points quarter-over-quarter.
U.S. Federal demand was largely in line for 4Q, with a positive outlook for FY26, and public cloud spend expectations remain the strongest in recent surveys, including higher near-term growth and a rising long-term cloud mix.
Security trends moderated with slower growth despite still meeting targets.
Piper Sandler completed its 4Q25 on-calendar survey of ~30 infrastructure partners and sees modest budget flush alongside strengthening AI infrastructure, refresh, and cyber-resilience demand, with +36% net-above-plan responses and expected IT budgets accel...
while “safer”/less-duration TMT held up better (Biz Services +1.9%, Telecom +0.9%, Payments +0.6%) and select IT/services names worked (ACN +2.9%, CTSH +2%). Other leadership came from Bitcoin-related (+1.6%), China sales exposed (+1.1%), and high short int...
Piper Sandler maintains an Overweight rating on Hut 8 with a $74 price target, saying the newly announced Fluidstack–Anthropic data center agreement materially strengthens the valuation case. The firm updates its SOTP framework and sees implied equity value...
Server revenue declined 5% y/y on a 10% q/q drop, with management citing timing of AI shipments and weaker U.S. federal spending as the main drags. At the same time, traditional servers and Alletra MP storage saw double-digit order growth, and private cloud...
The company's proprietary survey datasets remain highly valuable and insulated from AI disruption.
Lowered its full-year guidance and saw contract value decline for a second consecutive quarter due to softening demand and flat seat growth.
The business model is highly vulnerable to AI disintermediation despite trading at a high valuation multiple.
the next decade and raised the multiple to 35x with a $308PT ORCL +1% # BofA # Bernstein jELILXRij IT -28% as full year guide was lowered by 160bps and NCVI declined for a 2nd consecutive q as demand continues to softens in the research business and seat gr...
MDB +1.2% as BMO initiated at with AI Buy - tailwinds driving upside to $280. Fast moneylpods are long here now as the set -up is good into the print and talking to analysts, hearing there is more interest from HFs/LOs kicking the tires on this one MDB Eik...
initiated at Reduce); CTSH -1.6%_UBS hosting a call tomorrow on impact of GenAI on think should IT services for those interested be decent.
BNP Paribas Exane upgraded AMZN to Buy, citing stabilizing and improving IT spend trends based on their latest CIO survey and a favorable shift in sentiment toward AWS. While AWS spending intentions dipped slightly year-over-year (46% of respondents expect...
Semis/IT Spending: JPM CIO Survey Shows Strong AI and Cloud Spending Intentions; NVDA, AMD, AVGO, MRVL Among Top Beneficiaries
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