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Micron shares rose 6.5% on Monday, and current options pricing suggests traders expect the stock to move another 8.6% in either direction by the end of the week. If the move is to the upside, Micron could reach a fresh record high around $864, representing a weekly gain of 15.6%. That would be the stock’s second-best week of the year so far, behind last week’s nearly 38% rise. If the move is to the downside, an 8.6% decline would leave shares around $727, less than 3% off their price heading into this week.
Micron and other memory firms, including SanDisk and Western Digital, have become key beneficiaries of the AI-driven rally this year. As with earlier AI bellwethers, their share prices increasingly reflect investor sentiment about the broader, still-developing technology theme.
Micron’s surge this year has been driven by rising demand for digital memory from AI data centers. The stock is up about 180% since the start of the year, and has nearly doubled in value over the past month alone.
In Micron’s fiscal second quarter, revenue nearly tripled, gross margins doubled, and net income increased 770%. The company’s third-quarter revenue and earnings forecast also exceeded Wall Street expectations. Investors will look to Micron’s upcoming earnings report next month to see how the quarter ultimately performed.
Wall Street analysts are broadly bullish on Micron. Ten of the 11 analysts tracked by Visible Alpha rate the stock a “Buy,” while the remaining analyst has assigned a neutral rating.
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