The June quarter earnings season for “Magnificent 7” stocks, except Nvidia (NVDA), is over. It has been a mixed season at best, but the post-earnings price action has been quite vociferous. We have Microsoft (MSFT), which surged over 15% and posted its best day since 2008, while Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL), seen as an artificial intelligence (AI) success story, plunged over 7% and posted its worst day in over a year.
Meta Platforms (META) had another post-earnings crash on July 30, while Amazon (AMZN) soared on Friday after markets gave a thumbs up to its Q2 earnings. Apple (AAPL) has also been tumbling following the confessional, but since the company is not a player in the strict sense in the AI buildout race, we’ll exclude it from our analysis for this article. All that said, let's take a look at what the Mag 7 earnings tell us about the current state of the AI trade.