
Imagine being $MU CEO Sanjay Mehrotra right now:
• You just generated $16B in operating profit this quarter after doing only $8B in revenue a year ago
• Operating Margin 69% vs Est. 62% (nearly 7 points above what Wall Street modeled)
• You guided revenue ~40% above expectations, guided to a record 81% margin, raised the dividend 30% & still trade at under 10x forward earnings
Stock is down 5%.


Shay Boloor@StockSavvyShay
This AI cycle is fundamentally different from every prior memory supercycle in $MU history. Past supercycles were driven by unit volume growth with more phones + servers buying largely commoditized DRAM but but this one is a capacity-constrained cycle where HBM sells at ~5x conventional DRAM ASPs. Hyperscalers are willing to pay whatever it takes because the real cost is leaving massive GPU clusters underutilized. That is how Micron ends up producing $16B of operating profit in a single quarter.
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