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title: "Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle returned just 9.3% of cash to shareholders in the first three quarters of 2026, a 15-year low amid AI spending (Patturaja Murugaboopathy/Reuters)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/microsoft-alphabet-amazon-meta-and-oracle-returned-just-9-3-of-cash-to-146d5278
published: 2026-10-30T19:25:32.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle returned just 9.3% of cash to shareholders in the first three quarters of 2026, a 15-year low amid AI spending (Patturaja Murugaboopathy/Reuters)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-30 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/microsoft-alphabet-amazon-meta-and-oracle-returned-just-9-3-of-cash-to-146d5278

Patturaja Murugaboopathy / Reuters : Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle returned just 9.3% of cash to shareholders in the first three quarters of 2026, a 15-year low amid AI spending — The biggest US technology companies generated record amounts of cash in the first nine months of 2026, yet returned the smallest share …

In this story: [Alphabet](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/alphabet), [Microsoft AI](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/microsoft-ai), [Meta](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/meta), [Amazon](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/amazon), [Oracle](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/oracle)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261030/p20#a261030p20)

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