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23 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC · 2h ago
OpenAI Just Cut Its Valuation Target by $150 Billion
Impact · against what's priced in
The OpenAI valuation haircut is largely noise for Microsoft, as the stock's value depends on the Azure revenue stream rather than the mark-to-market value of its equity stake. The core driver remains the conversion of the $678 billion cloud backlog into revenue growth, which remains intact.
- MSFT+0.00
Already priced in
- The price assumes
A cloud platform backlog of $678 billion, which is already ten times quarterly cloud revenue.





