The incredible demand for hard disk drives and a favorable pricing environment have supercharged Seagate stock in 2026.
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The incredible demand for hard disk drives and a favorable pricing environment have supercharged Seagate stock in 2026.
Samsung reaches $1 trillion market cap on booming demand for high-bandwidth memory for AI.
Sandisk and Micron are now generating around 80 cents of gross profit for every dollar of revenue. That compares to a wide range historically, from single digits to around 60 cents on the dollar. That seems unsustainably high for companies in the very expensive business of physically manufacturing chips, but AI demand is changing the game.
Profits have never been a sure thing in the volatile industry. Memory chip makers Micron Technology and Sandisk as well as hard-drive makers Seagate and Western Digital have all produced annual operating losses at least once in just the last three years. Sandisk and Micron are now generating around 80 cents of gross profit for every dollar of revenue.
It’s unusual for Apple (AAPL) to signal anything about its suppliers, but Tim Cook broke from that pattern, a move that has clear implications for Micron Technology (MU) investors. For perspective, Micron has ridden a tidal wave of AI memory demand over the past several quarters, a trend ...
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