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Additional Reading from MarketBeat Media

Zoom’s Anthropic Stake and Huge Cash Pile Could Change the Story

Authored by Jeffrey Neal Johnson. Date Posted: 1/27/2026. 

Key Points

• Zoom maintains a fortress balance sheet with significant liquidity that supports the stock price while enabling flexible capital allocation strategies.
• The strategic equity investment in Anthropic offers shareholders a unique proxy method to gain exposure to the high-growth private artificial intelligence market.
• Including advanced artificial intelligence features at no extra cost creates a strong competitive moat that helps retain enterprise customers against larger rivals.

For several years the investment narrative around Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ: ZM) was relatively one-dimensional, focused almost exclusively on the return-to-office trend and whether the company could sustain growth after the pandemic. As of late January 2026, with the stock trading around $95, market sentiment is shifting. Sophisticated investors are starting to look past quarterly churn in video calling and instead focus on a large, underappreciated asset on Zoom’s balance sheet.

Zoom is increasingly seen as more than a software utility; it has become a deep-value holding company. The primary driver of that view is a strategic early-stage investment in Anthropic, one of the leading artificial intelligence (AI) firms. That equity stake gives public investors an indirect way to access the private AI market and forces a fresh look at what Zoom might actually be worth.

The Anthropic Factor: Accessing the AI Boom Through a Proxy

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To understand the bullish case for Zoom, investors need to consider its venture portfolio. In May 2023, Zoom Ventures made a strategic investment in Anthropic. At the time the move was treated as a standard partnership, but Anthropic—the creator of the Claude models—has since established itself as a top competitor to OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) DeepMind.

Zoom’s timing was advantageous. By investing in 2023, Zoom secured equity before the large valuation increases that swept the AI sector in late 2024 and 2025. While tech giants like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Google have also invested heavily in Anthropic, Zoom’s smaller market capitalization means a successful liquidity event for Anthropic (for example, an IPO) would disproportionately benefit Zoom shareholders compared with shareholders of trillion-dollar mega-caps.

For retail investors this is notable because Anthropic remains private—you can’t buy its shares on public exchanges. Owning Zoom stock effectively provides proxy exposure: as Anthropic’s private-market valuation rises, the value of Zoom’s stake increases too. That appreciation creates balance-sheet value that isn’t captured in standard revenue metrics but is nevertheless real.

The $7.9 Billion Cushion: A Mathematical Floor for the Stock

The presence of this appreciating AI asset has prompted some analysts to use a sum-of-the-parts valuation, which values a company by its component assets rather than relying solely on a price-to-earnings multiple. Viewed this way, Zoom appears to trade at a discount to many software peers.

Zoom’s balance sheet is a key part of that argument. The company holds roughly $7.9 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities and carries effectively zero debt. That cash pile creates a measurable floor under the stock.

Here’s how the simple valuation math looks for a value investor:

• Total market cap: The market currently values Zoom at roughly $27 billion.
• Subtract the cash: Remove the $7.9 billion in cash and equivalents, leaving about $19.1 billion attributed to the operating business.
• Subtract the Anthropic stake: Further subtract an estimated value for the Anthropic stake (roughly $2–$4 billion). The remainder approximates what you’re paying for Zoom’s core business.

That arithmetic implies investors are buying Zoom’s lucrative core operations—Meetings, Phone and Contact Center—at a historically low multiple. The cash and the Anthropic stake provide a margin of safety: they limit downside risk because the company’s assets alone justify a significant portion of the stock price, regardless of short-term revenue fluctuations.

The Federated Moat: How Ownership Powers Product Strategy

The Anthropic relationship is about more than potential financial upside; it’s a strategic defense against rivals such as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), which has a deep alliance with OpenAI and integrates those capabilities into its Copilot features. If Zoom had to license comparable AI at retail rates, its profit margins would be under pressure.

Instead, Zoom uses a federated AI approach, routing user tasks to different models based on performance and cost. Because of its ownership stake and partnership, Zoom has privileged access to Anthropic’s Claude model. Claude’s large context window lets it process and summarize lengthy materials—like an hour-long meeting transcript—more effectively than many alternatives.

That advantage lets Zoom disrupt the standard pricing model. Competitors often charge a premium—sometimes up to $30 per user per month—for advanced AI add-ons. In contrast, Zoom includes its AI Companion at no additional cost for paid license holders.

This amounts to a classic moat strategy. By bundling high-quality AI features into existing subscriptions, Zoom increases the value of its service and reduces churn, making it harder for companies to justify switching to alternatives such as Microsoft Teams. The potential bundle savings may not outweigh the loss of free, enterprise-grade AI tools.

A Value Play in a Growth Market

The investment thesis for Zoom has evolved. Where it was once a speculative bet on hyper-growth in 2020, in 2026 it reads more like a calculated value play: a profitable, cash-rich public company that also holds a potentially lucrative stake in a leading private AI firm.

While the core business faces slower growth, the downside is cushioned by the $7.9 billion cash position and what appears to be disciplined capital allocation from management. Coupled with the speculative upside tied to the Anthropic stake, the stock’s risk-reward profile looks attractive to many investors.

For those who feel they missed the first wave of AI winners, Zoom offers a second, more conservative route to exposure. It may not be the flashiest name on the Nasdaq, but the balance-sheet math and strategic positioning suggest it could be one of the most misunderstood.

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