{"id":546829,"date":"2026-03-19T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546829\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:41:11","slug":"micron-falls-5-5-after-blockbuster-earnings-heres-what-analysts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546829\/","title":{"rendered":"Micron falls 5.5% after blockbuster earnings. Here&#8217;s what analysts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/108280152-5ED1-WEX-Paul-031926.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Meeks: Micron may be the best opportunity in memory\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Blockbuster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/18\/micron-mu-q2-earnings-report-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earnings<\/a> were not enough to prevent a sharp drop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MU\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Micron Technology<\/a> shares in premarket trading.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/18\/micron-mu-memory-price-spike-earnings.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chipmaker<\/a> tripled revenue in the latest quarter as results sailed past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/19\/analysts-like-micron-despite-its-post-earnings-fall-heres-why-.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">analysts<\/a>&#8216; estimates, but shares look set to fall by around 5.3% at the open as of 07:02 a.m. E.T.<\/p>\n<p>Micron stock is up more than 350% in the past year, however, thanks to a memory supply shortage driven by surging demand for Nvidia&#8217;s AI chips.<\/p>\n<p>Citi analysts put the pre-market move down to &#8220;some profit taking after a strong run&#8221; and maintained a buy rating on the stock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe the big investor debate on the stock is if the stock will continue to rise with rising DRAM prices, like during the Windows PC DRAM cycle in the 1990s,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman analysts expect the stock to be range-bound in the short-term, following a &#8220;very strong quarter with guidance that was far ahead of the Street, against elevated investor expectations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The bank is keeping its rating on the stock at neutral, flagging the &#8220;potential risk of slowing HBM price momentum in 2027 given the prospects of meaningful supply additions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Micron is not the only tech company to see its stellar earnings fail to translate into meaningful share price movement lately. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/NVDA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a> reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/26\/nvidia-nvda-stock-price-q4-earnings.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a blowout quarter<\/a> on February 26, but its stock fell 5% on the day, reflecting investor caution over recent stellar gains as well as wider concerns about its leadership in the artificial intelligence race. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the muted market reaction, several banks raised their price targets for Micron stock Thursday morning. Wells Fargo updated their forecast to $550 per share from $470. Barclays raised its target to $670 from $450.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Katie Tarasov and Jordan Novet also contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Micron year-to-date stock chart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blockbuster earnings were not enough to prevent a sharp drop in Micron Technology shares in premarket trading.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1386,2158,45,161,49,48,16326,189646,100,50078,1369,213041,195737,61],"class_list":["post-546829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-earnings","tag-ishares-semiconductor-etf","tag-markets","tag-micron-technology-inc","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-pre-markets","tag-spdr-sp-semiconductors","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}