Microsoft Corp. plunged the most in almost six years after reporting record spending and slowing cloud sales growth, fueling investor concerns that it could take longer than expected for the company’s AI investments to pay off.

Revenue from the company’s cloud computing unit failed to meet analysts’ expectations.

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Wall Street analysts remained overwhelmingly bullish on Microsoft, even as the stock dipped 12% post-earnings.

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Microsoft’s stock has plummeted 12% due to a slight miss on revenue, showing how spooked investors are by the "spend now, profit later" AI market