Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures hovered around the flatline on Thursday as investors awaited developments over a potential agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while renewed concerns over the sustainability of the artificial intelligence spending boom pressured technology shares.
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Western Digital Corp (WDC) reports a 44% year-over-year revenue surge to $3.75 billion, with EPS more than doubling to $3.56, as AI and cloud demand fuel robust growth and margin expansion.
The hard-drive maker reports better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter, but guidance disappoints.
Western Digital stock slid late Wednesday despite the hard-disk drive maker reporting fiscal fourth-quarter results ahead of estimates. Western Digital said its earnings climbed 109%, to $3.56 per share, for the June quarter. Western Digital and its rival Seagate Technology dominate the hard-disk drive market.
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.
SNDK heads into fiscal Q4 results with AI-fueled SSD demand, firmer NAND pricing and rising TLC and QLC adoption.
Earnings continue to be the market's engine, and a series of results this week from Palantir, SpaceX, and AMD are set to rev up stocks again.
Seagate recently reported a beat on both revenue and earnings, along with guidance that came in above estimates.
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.
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.
Western Digital stock and shares of hard-disk drive rival Seagate Technology rallied after Micron's results.
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
With demand strengthening and supply remaining constrained, Western Digital’s earnings could continue expanding at a solid pace.
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Western Digital shares decline Friday after the hard-drive maker beats fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue estimates.