{"id":267795,"date":"2025-11-07T01:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267795\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:55:14","slug":"softbank-shares-slide-over-8-amid-renewed-pressure-on-ai-linked-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267795\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank shares slide over 8% amid renewed pressure on AI-linked stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The logo of SoftBank is displayed at a company shop in Tokyo, Japan January 28, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Issei Kato | Reuters<\/p>\n

Shares of Japan’s SoftBank Group<\/a> resumed their slide on Friday, following a broader slump in AI-related stocks as investors once again grew wary of the sector’s lofty valuations.<\/p>\n

The group, which holds a wide range of AI investments across infrastructure, semiconductor, and application companies, saw shares drop more than 8%.<\/p>\n

This comes after SoftBank gained nearly 3% in the previous session, having plunged 10% on Wednesday to clock its worst day since April.<\/p>\n

Other Japanese tech stocks also declined. Semiconductor testing equipment maker\u00a0Advantest<\/a>\u00a0dropped over 6%, chipmaker Renesas Electronics fell nearly 4%,\u00a0Tokyo Electron<\/a>, a chip production equipment maker, declined 1.46%.<\/p>\n

SoftBank holds a controlling stake in U.K.-based semiconductor designer Arm Holdings, whose chips help power mobile and AI processors globally. Shares of Nasdaq-listed Arm slid 1.21% overnight.<\/p>\n

Shares of the world’s largest chipmaker, TSMC<\/a>, fell 0.6%. <\/p>\n

Nvidia-supplier SK Hynix<\/a> was down over 1% and South Korean peer and memory chipmaker Samsung fell 0.5%.<\/p>\n

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Shares of SoftBank Group fall following renewed pressure on AI-linked stocks<\/p>\n

Separately, SoftBank considered acquiring U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology Inc. earlier this year, Bloomberg recently reported <\/a>citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The declines in Asian tech stocks also come after\u00a0AI-related companies in the U.S. fell overnight<\/p>\n

Qualcomm<\/a> dropped almost 4%, despite strong quarterly results, after warning it could lose future Apple business. AMD, a strong performer Wednesday, slipped 7%, while Palantir and Oracle were down about 7% and 3%, respectively. Nvidia and Meta Platforms also finished lower.<\/p>\n

The excitement surrounding AI has raised worries that markets might be experiencing a tech bubble<\/a>. Some experts argue that the valuations of AI companies are starting to resemble the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, with stock prices rising well beyond realistic profit forecasts.<\/p>\n

The economic impact of artificial intelligence is undeniable and market bumps are inevitable, said Laura Cooper, global investment strategist at Nuveen.<\/p>\n

“Still, it’s too soon to call a bubble. Today’s AI capex is being funded largely by cash-rich firms with solid balance sheets, not cheap credit or speculation,” she said. “The greater risk isn’t a bubble bursting, but valuation fatigue \u2014 investors tiring of paying ever-richer premiums for AI returns that don’t materialize quickly enough.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The logo of SoftBank is displayed at a company shop in Tokyo, Japan January 28, 2025.\u00a0 Issei Kato…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,9075,254,255,64,63,1053,4065,174,941,171,139921,48037,5813,105],"class_list":["post-267795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-arm-holdings-plc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-japan","tag-markets","tag-samsung-electronics-co-ltd","tag-softbank-group-corp","tag-south-korea","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}