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While the latest stock market upsurge turned Micron (NASDAQ: MU) into a household name, Jim Simons made a prodigious investment in the memory company as far back as 2013 – when it was trading at approximately $18 – and saw the equity rise almost exactly 5,000% since.
The raging semiconductor rally received another boost this week when UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri raised his price target on Micron Technology Inc. NASDAQ: MU to a stunning $1625, nearly triple its previous target.
For years, investors treated memory-chip companies like airlines or steelmakers — cyclical businesses that boomed when supply tightened and collapsed when too many competitors flooded the market with inventory.
It feels like there's nothing more than extreme overvaluation across the semiconductor names these days.
MU's non-GAAP gross margin hits a record 74.9% in Q2'26 as DRAM/NAND prices and AI demand surge. Rising memory prices may help it attain Q3 guidance of 81%.
The AI buildout has rewired the memory chip industry, transforming what was once a famously cyclical business into one of the hottest markets. Memory chips feed data to the likes of Nvidia's GPUs to train and run AI models like ChatGPT or Claude.
Q2 FY2026 revenue surged 196% year-over-year to $23.9 billion, while EPS exploded from $1.56 to $12.20. Micron Technology guided Q3 revenue toward $33.5 billion with 81% gross margins despite supply remaining constrained beyond 2026. AI inference workloads increasingly require massive DDR5 memory pools, ultrafast SSD storage, and high-capacity LPDRAM deployments.
Shares of Micron were headed for their best monthly performance since 1987, but analysts still see them as a value play.
So far, 2026 has been a year of astounding gains for many stocks of semiconductor manufacturers. But a quick look at a few stock indexes might surprise you.
Institutional capital is crowding into physical AI infrastructure as fixed-pricing frameworks and a structural supply deficit trigger historic margin expansion. Micron Technology NASDAQ: MU has officially crossed the $1 trillion market capitalization threshold, driven by a nearly 20% intraday surge and an unprecedented structural supply deficit in artificial intelligence (AI) memory chips.
At $880, Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU | MU Price Prediction) looks priced for perfection, with the risk/reward skewed to the downside.