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Investing.com - Shares in Micron (NASDAQ:MU) edged higher in premarket U.S. trading on Thursday after the chipmaker issued strong current-quarter guidance and better-than-anticipated fiscal third-quarter results that were underpinned by ongoing artificial intelligence-led memory demand.
Micron posted an almost 50% leap versus the prior three months in quarterly sales of its high-bandwidth memory chips, which are key components in AI data centers that help power the nascent technology.
The company added that it will continue to spend on improving its chips, a decision that comes as cloud companies like Google-owner Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and others are pursuing heavy investments in their AI capabilities. Micron’s expected market share in HBM chips is seen equalling its presence in dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips in the second half of 2025.
Chief Business Officer Sumit Sadana also said that recent sweeping U.S. tariffs have had only a modest impact on customer behavior, telling Reuters that a possible move to rein in spending by clients wary of an uncertain economic backdrop is "not something we lose sleep over."
Micron reported adjusted earnings of $1.91 a share on revenue of $9.3 billion in its third quarter. Analysts polled by Investing.com anticipated EPS of $1.59 a share on revenue of $8.84 billion.
In its fourth quarter, Micron said it expects to deliver revenue of $10.7 billion, plus or minus $300 million. Analysts had estimated $9.88 billion, according to LSEG data cited by Reuters.
Writing in a note to clients raising their price target for the stock, analysts at Stifel said they see Micron’s pricing trending higher into September and expect "mix to remain a tailwind into the year-end."
(Yasin Ebrahim contributed reporting.)