Michael Burry Warns Alphabet's 100-Year Bond Move Mirrors Motorola's 1997 Decline

“Big Short” capitalist Michael Burry issued a informing Monday astir Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) readying to contented 100-year bonds, drafting parallels to Motorola Solutions Inc.‘s (NYSE:MSI) downfall pursuing a akin determination successful 1997.

Writing connected X Monday, Burry stated, “Alphabet looking to contented a 100-year bond. Last clip this happened was Motorola successful 1997, which was the past twelvemonth Motorola was considered a large deal.”

He elaborated connected Motorola’s decline, noting that astatine the commencement of 1997, Motorola was among the apical 25 companies successful some marketplace headdress and gross successful America. At that time, Motorola’s marque was the astir invaluable successful the U.S., surpassing Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT).

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Burry noted that successful 1998, Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK) overtook Motorola successful the compartment telephone market, and aft the motorboat of Apple Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone, Motorola faded from the user spotlight. Today, Motorola ranks arsenic the 232nd largest institution by marketplace cap, with lone $11 cardinal successful sales.

Alphabet looking to contented a 100-year bond. Last clip this happened was Motorola successful 1997, which was the past twelvemonth Motorola was considered a large deal.
At the commencement of 1997, Motorola was a apical 25 marketplace headdress and apical 25 gross corp successful America. Never again.
The Motorola… pic.twitter.com/BuzrpPQj4u

Multiple media outlets person reported that Alphabet is issuing 100-year indebtedness arsenic portion of a important enslaved sale. The Google genitor plans to connection indebtedness successful dollars, British pounds, and Swiss francs with varying maturities.

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The merchantability volition see sterling indebtedness with maturities ranging from 3 to 100 years, and Swiss franc indebtedness with maturities from 3 to 25 years, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an capitalist acquainted with the matter.

Alphabet did not instantly respond to Benzinga's petition for comment.

The informing follows Burry’s caller critiques of tech giants’ AI investments. In January, Burry criticized companies similar Microsoft and Alphabet for dense AI infrastructure spending helium believes volition soon go obsolete. He besides precocious stake against Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), questioning the AI spot boom’s sustainability.