Data storage companies tumbled in premarket trading on Thursday after quarterly results from Sandisk and Western Digital failed to sustain momentum in an industry that has become one of Wall Street's hottest bets this year. Shares of Sandisk lost 9.2% to trade at $1,226.04, while Western Digital shed 14.6% and was last changing hands at $443.3. After the closing bell on Wednesday, both Sandisk and Western Digital forecast quarterly revenue that beat estimates compiled by LSEG, but fell short of high market expectations.
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Technology shares linked to the artificial intelligence boom came under renewed pressure on Thursday, as another wave of corporate earnings prompted investors to take profits from some of the market’s biggest winners. The weakness spread across Asia before carrying into U.
Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) shares fell in premarket trading on Thursday after the flash memory manufacturer issued first-quarter guidance that failed to meet investors’ elevated expectations, despite another quarter of exceptional growth fuelled by artificial intelligence demand. The company forecast fiscal first-quarter 2027 revenue of between $10.
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Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) reported record fiscal fourth-quarter revenue, gross margin and earnings per share, with results exceeding the high end of its prior outlook as the company cited growing demand for NAND storage tied to AI inference workloads and data-center expansion. Fourth-quarter revenue to
Sandisk shattered Wall Street estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter as relentless hyperscaler demand for AI data storage triggered severe capacity bottlenecks and surging memory chip prices.
The Dow Jones hit a new high thanks to Nvidia, but Google, SpaceX and AMD weighed on the Nasdaq. Sandisk, Western Digital fell late.
Wall Street expects Sandisk to continue benefiting from AI infrastructure spend, particularly demand for storage and memory products used in data centers.

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Sandisk has bounced hard off its lows, setting up a limited-risk options trade ahead of earnings.
SanDisk stock jumped 10% after a new AI memory milestone with SK Hynix, just ahead of its fiscal Q4 earnings report.
Hard drive makers Sandisk and Western Digital are due to report earnings after the closing bell Wednesday.
Sandisk could work its way back to this number post-earnings.
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