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Micron (MU) stock closed the June 25 trading session up 15.81% at $1,213.56. The stock soared following the release of the third-quarter (Q3) fiscal year 2026 (FY26) earnings report on June 24. The stock is up 313.14% year-to-date, at the time of writing, Friday afternoon, June 26. Meanwhile, the ...
AI customers are rushing to Micron for memory products.
Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities has a specific name for what is happening to tech stocks right now. In a note published June 26, he called it a "Twilight Zone market," Seeking Alpha reported, and the phrase is more specific than it sounds. Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), and ...
Every boom eventually forces the same question, and it is rarely the one investors ask first. Not who is growing fastest, or who has the biggest name, but who actually keeps the money. For three years, the answer in artificial intelligence (AI) has been obvious. Nvidia (NVDA) designed the chips, ...
Bankers Investment Trust PLC (LSE:BNKR) outperforms the FTSE World Index with a 6.5% share price total return, despite market challenges and leadership transition.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite fell in every day of a calendar week for the first time since April 2024, losing about 2% and 4.6%, respectively. “I just don’t think it’s a time as an investor that you should be focused on swinging for the fences,” said Jim Baird, chief investment officer at Plante Moran Financial Advisors. The declines continued this past week, which began with a tech selloff that ripped through chip makers from Seoul to Santa Clara, Calif. Micron’s upbeat outlook after Wednesday’s close looked set to spark a rebound, but momentum faded quickly, especially after Apple and Microsoft announced they would increase prices for MacBooks and Xbox gaming consoles, respectively.
Despite notable stock declines today, memory makers like Micron Technology, Samsung and SK Hynix are far and away the best performers among trillion-dollar technology companies this year. Some of the moves this past week help explain why.
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Investing.com -- A strong earnings showing for one memory stock was overshadowed by a rotation out of technology and into more defensive names, while Bitcoin's slide below $60,000 hit crypto-linked stocks over the past few days.
Micron's outlook eased chip-demand fears, but inflation concerns quickly reignited volatility across AI-focused stocks.
Memory stocks rarely produce 84% gross margins. Commodity DRAM is the business school case study for cyclical pain, where pricing power goes to die. So when Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) posted non-GAAP gross margins of 84.9% for its fiscal third quarter, the number stopped being a memory number and became a question about what kind of ... Micron Smashed Even the Bulls: Evercore Says This AI Rally Has the ‘Earnings Power’ to Last
Coming off of May's hot Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) reading, Gradient Investments associate portfolio manager Lisa Schreiber weighs in on how the Federal Reserve may move on interest rates in 2026 based on the latest inflation data.
<body><p>STORY: From Micron's mega market cap to Apple's price hikes...</p><p>...this is the Week in Numbers.</p><p>:: The Week in Numbers</p><p>:: $1.4 trillion.</p><p>About $1.4 trillion was Micron's market cap after it briefly blew past the value of Meta and Tesla for the first time.</p><p>It came after the firm forecast quarterly profit and revenue well above expectations.</p><p>Micron is a major memory-chip maker and a key supplier to AI titan Nvidia.</p><p>The company's shares have more than tripled in value so far this year, and soared close to a fifth following its results.</p><p>:: 5%</p><p>Almost 5% is how far Apple shares fell after it announced price hikes.</p><p>The tech giant said its cheapest laptop will jump from $599 to $699, with iPad prices also rising - although the iPhone won't jump for now.</p><p>Apple says it can no longer avoid passing on rising costs to consumers.</p><p>The price of memory chips jumped by around 98% in the first quarter, and has kept soaring due to the AI boom.</p><p>:: 42% </p><p>42% was how much shares of Wendy's soared as retail traders bought up the beaten-down stock in the latest meme-like rally.</p><p>Trading on the heavily shorted stock was paused multiple times due to volatility..</p><p>Shares briefly hit a more than seven-month high.</p><p>The fast food chain is battling weak sales and pressure from an activist investor, with its stock down more than 78% from record highs five years ago.</p><p>:: $648 billion</p><p>Almost $648 billion is how much Samsung plans to invest in South Korea over 10 years.</p><p>That's according to the Maeil Business Newspaper, which said the firm will announce its intentions on Monday.</p><p>The investment includes a potential $194 billion to build chip factories in the country's southwest, as well as plans for AI data centers, batteries and displays.</p><p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Samsung.</p><p>:: $606.5 million</p><p>And $606.5 million was H&M's operating profit during its fiscal second quarter.</p><p>That was smaller than expected for the Swedish fashion retailer.</p><p>H&M blamed weaker consumer demand and inflation made worse by the Iran war.</p><p>CEO Daniel Erver said Europe, particularly the western part of it, had gone through a difficult quarter.</p></body>
By Anna Szymanski June 26 (Reuters) - Everything Mike Dolan and the ROI team are excited to read, watch and listen to over the weekend.
June 26 (Reuters) - Futures tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq led Wall Street losses on Friday, as chip stocks came under renewed pressure after a sharp rally in the previous session, while some megacap
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Just as investors were settling into the idea that the AI rally still had legs, Apple delivered a reality check that someone
Shares plunged Friday in Asia, led by heavy losses in Japan and South Korea as traders sold to lock in gains from recent rallies in stocks related to artificial intelligence. U.S. futures also declined, while oil prices fell. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index shed 4.5% to 69,127.10 and the Kospi in Seoul plunged 6.8% to 8,323.52.
Micron Technology’s (MU) fiscal third-quarter 2026 earnings report delivered results you rarely see from a company of its size. The trillion-dollar semiconductor’s revenue surged 346% year-over-year to $41.46 billion, profits soared 1,215% to $28.24 billion, and, according to the company, its ...
What does a sold-out memory supplier really tell you about the staying power of the AI chip boom?
<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>
Citigroup highlighted SanDisk as a prime beneficiary of the insatiable global demand for artificial intelligence memory and storage infrastructure.
Micron Technology predicts that memory-chip shortages will persist until at least 2028. Micron stock jumped Thursday after its strong Q3 report.
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