Michael Burry Calls Anthropic's Valuation a Bubble Worth 78 S&P 500 Companies Darryn Pollock Thu, October 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM EDT 2 min read ANTH.PVT ^GSPC -0.22% UPS -0.88% DPZ +0.08% CLX -1.57% Explore stocks on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
Michael Burry says Anthropic's valuation could buy 78 profitable companies in the S&P 500, a price he calls a bubble.
The list includes Domino's, Clorox, lululemon, and Hormel Foods, though Burry did not say which Anthropic valuation he used. The company's last private round, in May, priced it at $965 billion ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO).
In his Substack post, Burry also benchmarked the figure against the 1990s. He said United Parcel Service (UPS) held the 1990 to 2000 record for inflation-adjusted pre-IPO valuations, at $119 billion.
That price equaled 26 times earnings and 2.4 times sales, Burry said. UPS was 92 years old and earned a net margin of about 8.6%.
Anthropic, by contrast, was founded in 2021. Its leaked draft prospectus shows a $42 billion net loss for 2025, Fortune reported. Reuters reported that most of the loss was an accounting charge rather than operating spending.
However, the same filing shows $11.5 billion in second-quarter 2026 revenue and points to a second straight operating profit.
It also lists $518 billion in planned cloud and infrastructure spending in coming years.
Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital led the $65 billion round that set the $965 billion mark, CNBC reported.
Prospective investors now put fair value between $1.8 trillion and $2 trillion. Anthropic is targeting a listing before Thanksgiving, according to the same report.
The post follows Burry's stock market warnings. On Oct. 5, he said stocks sit in a denial stage he expects to last six to nine months.
Days after the May round, he told Substack subscribers that Anthropic's long-term worth near $1 trillion was far from assured.
A listing near $2 trillion would test whether public investors pay for revenue growth ahead of earnings. Reuters reported that analysts see the first AI lab to list as the pricing reference for the sector.
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