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Memory stocks are staging a sharp Monday afternoon reversal after weeks of brutal selling across the chip complex, but the real question is whether today's bounce signals a genuine floor or just a brief pause before the next leg down.
Memory stocks rebounded on Monday after sliding last week amid concerns about the durability of AI spending and efforts by tech giants to control their memory costs.
NTAP is riding the rising public cloud and AI demand, with strong cloud revenue growth and high margins supporting its fiscal 2027 outlook.
Recently, Zacks.com users have been paying close attention to Western Digital (WDC). This makes it worthwhile to examine what the stock has in store.
Chip and AI-linked stocks have whacked in recent weeks after a sharp run-up, while inflation concerns, the U.S.-Iran conflict, and stretched valuations have also weighed on sentiment.
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.
Sandisk was spun off as a separate, independent company by Western Digital in 2025, about a decade after it was purchased. The two now operate as independent, publicly traded companies, with Sandisk focusing on manufacturing flash storage cards, while Western Digital focuses on making hard disk ...
Micron, Sandisk, Seagate and Western Digital are positioned to benefit as AI infrastructure drives rising demand for advanced memory and storage.
QQQ highlights a volatile market as sharp swings hit tech momentum stocks, with three practical trading tips aimed at navigating choppy conditions.
Micron just locked in five-year supply deals at historically high DRAM prices while a major AI cloud buyer quietly bets those same prices are about to fall. One of them is going to be very wrong.
WDC sees AI-driven data growth fueling long-term HDD demand as new storage technologies and its focused strategy target hyperscale opportunities.
A wave of selling swept through semiconductor stocks Friday as investors began questioning whether the AI spending boom can justify chip valuations built on optimism alone. The forces driving this rotation reveal cracks in the narrative that sent some semis up triple digits this year.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -1.06%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.12%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -2.23%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are down -0.95%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Western Digital and Seagate are highlighted as smaller AI plays, with strong storage demand, revenue growth and margins fueling expansion beyond NVIDIA's gains.
FEATURE Tech was getting hit again on Friday as investors carried on selling chip makers and other artificial-intelligence stocks. Futures tracking the slumped 1.8%. The and were both also on track to open lower.
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July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slid on Friday as a selloff in chip stocks deepened, forcing investors to reassess the staying power of this year's AI-fueled rally, while a weak forecast
Sandisk has been the top-performing stock in the Nasdaq-100 so far this year.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after TSMC paired topline strength with a free cash flow-compressing capital expenditure reset, compounding a sector-wide selloff that began with ASML the day before. TSMC shares fell roughly 4% in the morning session despite a record profit beat.
<body><p>STORY: While the "long-term story" regarding Nvidia's success "remains intact," Casey noted the chipmaker's stock this year "has been outperformed by other areas" of the AI trade.</p><p>Casey named "picks and shovels" firms Taiwan Semiconductor and ASML as being sound investments, with the latter "a really strong business" that makes lithography machines used "to make the chips."</p><p>But he's tepid about cloud storage companies such as Western Digital, saying that some of those stocks went "from being dirt cheap to being super expensive overnight. That's not really the kind of beat and raise long-term growth story that we look for," he added.</p></body>
If you checked on your Micron Technology (MU) holdings on Wednesday, you might have done a double-take. After a strong prior session, the stock returned -8.0% while the broader S&P 500 returned +0.4%. The company hadn't made a misstep. In fact, it's the exact opposite, which makes the story here so compelling.
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