Micron beating earnings with accelerating revenue growth is the most bullish possible signal for the Roundhill Memory ETF. x.comÂ
Marcos Milla
Former Analyst at the Federal Reserve, ETF/Stock Newsletter Author
Rising memory contract prices strengthen the case for memory stocks still far below their highs. JPMorgan forecasts Q4 DRAM prices up 13% and NAND up 18%; Micron is 28% below its 52-week high, Seagate 44%, Sandisk 47% and Western Digital 55%. x.comÂ
Micron's surging memory revenue points to a supercycle. Its segment and NAND revenue charts show a sharp recent acceleration, while the stock tests its rising 30-week average. x.comÂ
Each new AI wave is lifting demand across Micron's HBM, DRAM and storage products. Micron said training, inference, agentic AI and physical AI raise memory needs; the stock still trades at about 5x next-twelve-month earnings, leaving its growth story just getting started. x.comÂ
Micron's ordinary memory could see tighter supply because HBM consumes far more factory capacity than conventional DRAM. Meeting AI demand could thus extend Micron's opportunity beyond AI memory. x.comÂ
Sandisk's fast-growing data-center revenue strengthens its case among memory names with upside. Data-center revenue rose 61% quarter over quarter; revenue of $11.03B, adjusted EPS of $49.51 and adjusted gross margin of 85.1% all exceeded estimates. For upside among Micron, Sandisk and Kioxia, Micron ranks first, then Sandisk, then Kioxia, until further guidance. x.com x.comÂ
Micron and SK hynix pricing in a memory shortage past 2030 extends the memory-cycle case beyond the Street's 2028 expectation. SK hynix's record quarter adds evidence: per Wall St Engine, revenue rose 328% to $78.9B, operating profit rose 632% to $62.8B, and operating margin hit 80%. Agentic and physical AI could add demand as they roll out. x.com x.comÂ
Micron's knockout earnings should soon lift a stock that hasn't moved yet, likely because of end-of-month fund repositioning. It beat on revenue, margins and earnings and projects an even bigger 2027. AI supply-chain assets were weak in September, historically the worst month of the year, while October is historically the best. x.com x.comÂ
Micron is riding the AI memory supercycle: HBM for AI accelerators is sold out and prices are exploding, turning a former commodity price-war player into the hottest shovel-seller in the AI gold rush. From Q4 FY25 to Q4 FY26, revenue rose 379% to $54.2B, operating income rose about 12x to $43.8B, and EPS jumped from $2.86 to $33.36. x.comÂ
Micron should go higher long term because its net income is so high that it is holding up against broad macro selling; it is up 34%+ this year and might be up 60%+ without the Iran war. The latest earnings beat was no surprise, since Samsung's 100% NAND price hike versus 33-38% estimates let investors model gross margin of 73-75% back in January; Micron reported 74.9%. Repricing happens before earnings as fundamentals change, so the report merely confirmed it. x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com x.comÂ
Micron looks like a bargain at about 5x forward earnings with 380% sales growth and net profit up 11x, in an AI compute environment where every data point is extremely bullish. A quoted post cites OpenAI nearing $70B in ARR, AI agents becoming a new secular demand driver, record Korean memory-chip exports, and Micron's big beat-and-raise with demand extending another year. x.comÂ