Micron Technology Inc MU

Valuation and Risk hold this up; Optionality is the soft spot.

The price needs 17.8% growth a year for ten years. The AI thinks 28.0% is achievable, at a 44.2% margin.

Micron looks cheap at under 9x earnings, and the market price needs almost no growth if today's extraordinary profit margins hold. But memory is a commodity business, and these margins (about 80% operating) are roughly triple the historical norm because AI demand has outrun supply. Long-term contracts covering about $150B of revenue and shortages guided through 2028 make the next couple of years highly likely, yet rival factories (SK hynix, Samsung, Chinese entrants and Micron's own) land from 2027-2029. The main risk is a classic memory bust, which I put at about 40% likely and which would cut margins by more than half.

Micron Technology, Inc. engages in the provision of semiconductor memory and storage products in the United States, Taiwan, Mainland China, other Asia Pacific countries, Japan, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Cloud Memory Business Unit, Core Data Center Business Unit, Mobile and Client Business Unit, and Automotive and Embedded Business Unit segments. The company provides dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products, including High-Bandwidth Memory, doublie data rate, low-power DRAM, and graphics DRAM products; NAND products comprising solid state drives, managed NAND, and multi-chip packages; and NOR products. The company sells its products under the Micron brand name and private labels through its own direct sales force, sales or representative offices, as well as through distributors, retailers, and independent sales representatives. Micron Technology, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

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