Sandisk and Micron have emerged as leading beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence (AI) memory boom.
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SNDK stock dropped to an intra-day low of around $1,050 before recovering part of its losses.
Micron Technology stock plunged on Tuesday as semiconductor stocks broadly continued to sell off. In morning trades on the stock market today, Micron fell more than 11% to 796.46. It was among the worst performers on the Philadelphia semiconductor index, known as SOX.
Sandisk stock has fallen 10% or more per day for three straight days. Here's why.
Memory stocks are cratering for the second straight session with no company-specific bombshell to blame, and Big Tech earnings due Wednesday could either end the pain fast or send the group into a deeper spiral.
The last time SK Hynix Inc. (NASDAQ:SKHY) suffered a monthly decline this severe, Lehman Brothers had just collapsed. Shares of the South Korean memory giant have plunged roughly 41% this month, marking their worst monthly performance since October 2008. The selloff accelerated Tuesday, with the stock dropping another 14% in Seoul just one day before second-quarter earnings. SK Hynix will report second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, after the close. Chart: SK Hynix Eyes Worst Monthly Performance
Memory stocks delivered some of the biggest gains in semiconductor history as AI demand swept through the sector, rewarding investors who got in early. Now those same stocks are cratering, and the question keeping traders up at night is whether this is a buying opportunity or the beginning of something far more painful.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose, but tech futures dropped as chip stocks Micron and Sandisk dived. Coca-Cola jumped on earnings.
Taiwanese prosecutors just detained an Nvidia employee in a chip smuggling probe already linked to Supermicro's stunning collapse, and investors are scrambling to figure out whether history is about to repeat itself.
Sandisk's Stunning Rally Unravels as Investors Hit the Exit
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Kioxia got destroyed overnight in Asia, and the shockwave hit US memory and storage stocks hard in premarket trading Tuesday. Three overlapping catalysts are forcing traders to rethink whether the AI memory trade was built on shakier ground than anyone admitted.
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U.S. chip stocks are struggling as a result of fragile investor sentiment ahead of U.S. hyperscaler earnings this week, UBS's Mark Haefele wrote. Microsoft and Meta report earnings Wednesday, before Apple and Amazon report Thursday.
Investing.com -- U.S. chip stocks extended losses in premarket trading Tuesday, building on Monday’s declines after a broad selloff swept through Asian semiconductor names overnight as investors pulled back from AI-linked stocks amid growing worries about how the industry’s infrastructure buildout is being financed and rising competitive pressure from China.
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The AI boom is expanding beyond semiconductor companies; Shopify is an early leader in agentic commerce.
July 28 (Reuters) - Nasdaq futures fell on Tuesday, mirroring a cautious mood across global markets toward AI chip stocks on concerns about hefty corporate spending and rising Chinese competition,
The boom-and-bust memory cycles of the past few years may be over.
CXMT stock surged over 5x on its debut in Shanghai.
Earlier this week, Sandisk came under pressure after the blockbuster Shanghai IPO of Chinese memory maker CXMT intensified worries about future competition in global memory and AI-related chip markets. Although CXMT currently focuses on DRAM and Sandisk on NAND flash, investor concern that China could soon target NAND raised fresh questions about the durability of Sandisk’s profit margins and industry position. We’ll now examine how rising Chinese memory competition and sector-wide chip...