Western Digital will report results for its fiscal fourth quarter after the closing bell on Wednesday, August 5, giving investors another important read on enterprise storage demand and the ongoing AI infrastructure buildout.
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SNDK heads into fiscal Q4 results with AI-fueled SSD demand, firmer NAND pricing and rising TLC and QLC adoption.
Seagate recently reported a beat on both revenue and earnings, along with guidance that came in above estimates.
SanDisk has taken investors on a wild ride in recent months. For instance, SanDisk (SNDK) stock is up roughly 2,240% over the past 12 months, a return that turned a sleepy chipmaker into one of the most talked-about stocks on Wall Street. Then came the drop. The chip stock has fallen 45% from its ...
Seagate Technology stock jumped late Tuesday after the hard-disk drive maker reported quarterly results that beat expectations. A recent pullback for top performing AI stocks was weighing on Seagate's shares coming into the report. The results represent Seagate's fiscal fourth quarter.
SIMO is set to report Q2 earnings with rising estimates, a modest surprise track record and growing enterprise and embedded storage momentum.
Sandisk went public in February 2025, and just over a year later, the flash memory storage maker’s board of directors approved a plan to buy back shares. The repurchase comes as the company’s shares reached record highs well above its IPO price. Here's what current and prospective Sandisk investors ...
The rebound comes after weeks of intense selling, partly due to concerns that hyperscalers would continue investing the massive sums in AI development they had committed at the start of the year.
Micron just posted one of the most explosive quarters in semiconductor history, yet the stock has cratered nearly 14% in a single week as three distinct threats converge on the memory giant. Whether this selloff is a gift or a warning depends entirely on which scenario plays out next.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.30%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.60%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.97%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.28%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Oil prices jumped and Asian shares were mostly lower Monday after the U.S. carried out airstrikes and Iran retaliated. The price of Brent crude, the international standard, gained 3.9% to $78.96 per barrel, while U.S. benchmark crude oil added 4% to $74.26 per barrel. Prices for both types of crude oil recently had slipped back to the levels they were at before the war with Iran began, after the two sides set an interim agreement on ending the conflict and ships resumed transporting oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
Seagate Technology stock rose Friday, bouncing back from a recent pullback. "With the recent market pullback and increasing confidence in what we view as a path to plus-$50 earnings-per-share and significant (capital) return capacity ahead, we upgrade STX to overweight with a $1,100 price target," Wells Fargo analyst Aaron Rakers said in a note for clients. Rakers previously held a neutral equal-weight view for Seagate and a 900 price target.
Investing.com -- Memory and storage stocks are climbing in premarket trading on Monday, with Micron up 2.2%, SanDisk gaining 3.6%, Western Digital rising 3.4% and Seagate adding 1.8%, as bullish analyst notes pointed to pricing upside and durable AI-driven demand.
July 6 (Reuters) - Wall Street futures rose on Monday as chip stocks stabilized after recent weakness, while a fall in oil prices helped extend a rally that lifted the main U.S. indexes the previous
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Monday closed up +1.18%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.59%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +2.25%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) rose +1.20%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Thursday, with the Dow ticking up more than a tenth of a percent, while the S&P 500 closed flat and the Nasdaq dropped nearly half a percent.</p><p>Technology shares reversed early gains to move lower, as investors worried about hyperscaler spending on AI and who foots the bill.</p><p>:: Micron</p><p>Those fears outweighed upbeat signals on AI demand from Micron, which gained nearly 16%, while shares of Sandisk soared 22%.</p><p>Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, notes that it's memory chip makers that are now leading the charge. </p><p>"What's different about Micron, SanDisk, Western Digital, those types of names that are doing so well is that they're memory chips. And you have to have memory, specifically DRAM or H-band memory, if you're going to have enough computing power to do all the computations. That is nothing if you don't have memory to transfer it from one place to another. So one of the reasons that these stocks have done so well and the growth at Micron is so solid is because a recent redesign in the server technology means we go from eight memory chips per server to 96. That's 12 times growth in demand for this one simple component."</p><p>The surging prices of memory and storage chips prompted Apple on Thursday to hike prices for its iPads and MacBooks. That weighed on the stock, sending it down more than 6%. Shares of Nvidia, Microsoft and Alphabet also dropped.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Among other movers, shares of Bio-Techne jumped after Merck agreed to acquire the biotech firm for $73 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of about $11.3 billion.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Meanwhile, U.S. Department of Commerce data on Thursday showed the annual inflation rate through May rose above 4% for the first time in three years, but oil prices this week fell to below pre-war levels.</p></body>
Western Digital stock and shares of hard-disk drive rival Seagate Technology rallied after Micron's results.
June 25 (Reuters) - Nasdaq futures jumped 2% on Thursday after upbeat forecasts from chipmakers Micron and Qualcomm pointed to strong demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, lifting
Shares of chipmakers surged late on Wednesday, adding over $400 billion in market value after strong forecasts from Micron Technology and Qualcomm breathed fresh life into Wall Street's recently waning AI stock rally. Micron surged 12% in extended trade after forecasting quarterly earnings above analysts' estimates, signaling that heavy investments in AI-related infrastructure will drive strong demand for its memory chips. Also after the bell, Qualcomm said it expects $15 billion in sales from its data center business by 2029 as it moves beyond its core smartphone chip business and shifts its focus to AI.
Investing.com - Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) delivered the strongest quarterly results in its history after Wednesday's close, posting fiscal third-quarter 2026 revenue of $41.46 billion against a Wall Street consensus of $35.69 billion, a 16.2% beat, and earnings per share of $25.11 versus the $20.49 estimate, a 22.6% upside surprise. The print sent Micron shares up roughly 12.6% in extended trade to around $1,180.97, recovering from a regular-session close of $1,047.20.
Micron surged overnight on strong earnings and guidance, lifting other memory and chip plays. The Fed's favorite inflation gauge is on tap.
Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) stock is up about 6% in Monday morning trading to around $1,199, leading a broad memory and storage rally into the company’s Wednesday earnings report. Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) stock is also up by about 6% to around $788, while SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) stock is up 5% to around $2,294. The group is resisting ... Micron and Western Digital Rise 6%, SanDisk Gains 5% as Memory Stocks Rally Into Micron’s Earnings
Micron led the rest of the chip complex higher on Monday after signing a supply deal with Antrhopic and ahead of the memory chipmaker's earnings this week.