August 27, 2026
HBM4 is in volume shipments, the fiscal year ends Aug. 28, and MU trades near $963 with earnings eyed for Sep. 29.
Micron Technology went into this past Thursday’s session up nearly 240% year-to-date, briefly touched $974 before cooling, and then unveiled a $10 billion research lab in Boise the same week. The stock is still trading roughly 23% below its June peak of $1,255. That gap between operational momentum and price action is the opportunity worth examining.
Why This Stock Now
Micron’s fiscal year ends August 28. That means the company is, right now, inside its final quarter, with results expected around September 29. The Q3 results, reported June 24, were one of the most aggressive beats in the semiconductor industry’s recent history. Revenue guidance for Q4 came in at approximately $50.0 billion, against a Wall Street consensus around $43.6 billion. Adjusted EPS guidance of approximately $31 per share came in well above the Street. That kind of guidance corridor does not emerge from a company managing a soft patch. It reflects a business that cannot build capacity fast enough to meet demand.
The fiscal Q4 EPS consensus now sits at $31.14, per TipRanks. Against a stock price around $963, that implies a forward multiple of roughly 7x on a single quarter. For context, TipRanks shows 47 analysts currently rate Micron a Strong Buy.
The Business
Micron makes DRAM, NAND, and High Bandwidth Memory, the three categories of chips that keep AI data centers running. HBM is where the business has structurally changed. Every NVIDIA GPU used for AI training and inference requires HBM to feed data to compute cores, and as AI models grow larger and more complex, HBM demand has surged well beyond what the industry can supply.
The numbers behind that dynamic are stark. Micron has said AI-driven DRAM and NAND demand in data centers is expected to exceed 50% of industry bit demand for the first time in calendar 2026. Micron’s Core Data Center unit posted 87% gross margin last quarter. That is not a commodity business. That is a strategic asset.
564% or higher when the market doesn’t move?
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Feb. 18, 2025, was a day of no action.
Yet this algorithm recommended a stock that went up 610%.
Oct. 18, 2021, was another boring day.
But this software recommended a 564% winner that day.
April 10, 2023?
Another tame day, another big win.
790% since then in fact.
So how did it do it?
Management has moved aggressively to lock in that advantage. Micron has signed 16 strategic customer agreements, typically take-or-pay contracts running five years from calendar 2026 through 2030, with 14 of the 16 representing approximately $100 billion of cumulative revenue at contracted minimum prices over the remaining agreement term. Management said those price floors support margins well above its peak quarterly margins in any past cycle. Separately, Micron signed an AI-focused memory and storage partnership with Anthropic in June, tying the company directly into the Claude model buildout.
HBM4 is already in high-volume shipments for a lead customer’s platform, with qualification samples shipped to multiple end customers.
Why Wall Street Is Paying Attention
The Micron Research Labs announcement on August 20 crystallized what the company is building beyond the current cycle. Backed by a planned $10 billion investment over the next decade, the Boise facility will be the first dedicated memory research hub of its kind in the United States, uniting customers, academic institutions, and government agencies to pursue advances in memory technologies, compute architectures, and packaging.
That investment sits on top of the more than $250 billion Micron has separately committed to manufacturing and R&D across the United States, including new fabs in New York and additional fabs in Boise. The institutional conviction cluster arriving in the same week as the Research Labs announcement is not coincidental.
CEO Sanjay Mehrotra put the strategic framing plainly:
