META is above $740, and the market is pricing Meta Muse as an automatic win. Meta is a top-five CSI holding and we've owned it for years. We're holding, not adding, at this price.
Meta reaches 3.6 billion people a day, yet about $59 billion of its $60 billion in quarterly Family of Apps revenue still comes from advertising. Muse, the company's new personal AI agent, is its most serious attempt yet to change that mix.
This episode covers how Muse works as a personal aggregator running on Meta's data center infrastructure, and the four ways it could make money: consumer subscriptions, business agents and APIs, commerce and performance fees, and higher-intent ad targeting. We also get into why Amazon blocking Muse matters for the walled-garden-versus-aggregator fight ahead.
Then the numbers: bear, base, and bull revenue scenarios for Muse; $89 billion in trailing CapEx absorbing free cash flow (NVIDIA servers, plus custom MTIA chips with Broadcom and TSMC); what five-year EPS growth is priced in at today's valuation; and whether operating margins can hold near 30% as depreciation climbs.
Chapters
0:00 3.6B users, endless lawsuits: why Meta is a top-five CSI holding
0:55 Ad dependence: $59B of $60B in quarterly revenue
2:40 Reality Labs cash burn and the Apple/Android problem
5:00 The AI browser wars: how Muse sidesteps the hardware layer
6:30 $89B in CapEx: what the data center spending is for
7:15 What Muse actually does: a personal AI aggregator
8:40 Four ways Muse makes money, and why Amazon blocked it
11:10 Bear, base, and bull case: Muse revenue scenarios
13:40 The real risk: trust, walled gardens, and margin pressure
15:40 Valuation check: 16% EPS growth priced in at $740
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