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The capital expenditure cycle for AI infrastructure has created a clear fault line in how investors price technology stocks.
Companies that committed to large-scale AI buildout spending carry the risk that returns on that capital take longer to materialize than projected; Apple, which has not made those commitments at the same scale, sits differently in that risk structure.
That positioning drove Apple to a $5 trillion market capitalization for the first time, as investors pulled back from the chip sector and sought a technology haven.
The capex exposure repricing the sector The mechanism is direct. AI infrastructure buildout creates demand for chips and the systems built around them.
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