Wall Street Thinks This AI Powerhouse Is Headed to $1.6 Trillion, But Historical Cycles Suggest It’s a Stock to Avoid Like the Plague Quick Read – Micron Technology (MU) at $880 appears overpriced with risk-reward skewed downside despite strong earnings. – Micron’s memory…
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At $880, Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) looks priced for perfection, with the risk/reward skewed to the downside. The memory giant has roughly 9x’d off its March 2025 low near $90, crossed the $1 trillion mark this week, and now sits at a price where the math demands continued perfection from one of the most cyclical businesses in technology. Micron is the only U.S.-based manufacturer of advanced DRAM and NAND memory, and its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stacks have become indispensable for NVIDIA’s AI accelerators.
Cloud Memory Business Unit revenue of $5.284 billion nearly doubled year over year last quarter, and UBS recently set a $1,625 price target that implies a roughly $1.6 trillion market cap. The stock obliged, ripping 28.21% in a single week on Samsung strike chatter and the trillion-dollar milestone. Why bulls see a structurally different memory company The bull thesis: AI has rewired memory from a commodity into a strategic asset.