Company Update: A Silver-Lining

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Company Update: A Silver-Lining

Deutsche Bank

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Rating Company Date

Buy Meta 1 July 2026

Company Update

North America

United States

Reuters Bloomberg Exchange Ticker Price at 30 Jun 2026 (USD) 563.29

META.OQ META US NAS META

Price target 810.00

TMT

790.00 -

Internet 52-week range 525.72

A Silver-Lining

Valuation & Risks

Benjamin Black, CFA

This morning, Bloomberg reported that Meta is developing plans for a cloud

Research Analyst

infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models. +1-212-250-9218

This naturally raises 3 questions: 1) What does this imply for the company's

ambitions to build frontier models. 2) If Meta has potentially overbuilt capacity, Kunal Madhukar, CFA

what does this imply for Capex going forward? 3) How much revenue could Meta

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expect to generate from their excess capacity? All in all, our read is not that Meta

is backing away from frontier AI, rather, we think Meta may be reserving its most Raymond Wong

strategic capacity for internal model development, while selling non-core, older- Research Associate

generation, or temporarily underutilized capacity into a still-constrained compute +1-212-250-2060

market. Bigger picture, we contend this could pivot the AI capex debate from Benjamin Hui, Esq.

“Capex with limited revenue upside” into “high-flow-through revenue Research Associate

optionality.” +1-212-250-2064

The report suggested that Meta is evaluating a cloud infrastructure business that

could sell both raw AI compute and hosted model access, including a Bedrock-like

API layer which in our view could highlight that the company appears to be looking

for a more direct revenue bridge between the current sizable AI capex investments

and the still-unclear AI product monetization.