Dell shares fall 11% as investors question returns on AI infrastructure spending
Bitget2026/10/15 07:40- Dell shares plunged 11% Wednesday as investors questioned whether enterprise AI spending could sustain infrastructure demand.
- Barclays downgraded Dell, HPE and NetApp from buy-equivalent to hold-equivalent ratings, citing substantial share-price gains and uncertain enterprise AI adoption.
- Businesses allocate about 5% of IT budgets to AI; hardware receives roughly a quarter of enterprise AI spending, Barclays estimated.
- Rising memory costs, rather than accelerating AI deployments, drove stronger infrastructure revenue, leaving suppliers exposed to a reversal as prices normalize.
- Higher financing costs compounded concerns over AI infrastructure returns, with Oracle falling 9% Wednesday; CoreWeave dropped 15%.
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