Seagate shares have surged more than 300% in a year and Wall Street still sees room to run, but a beta above two and a fiscal 2028 EPS range that spans from $35 to $80 signal how violently this trade
Seagate shares have already tripled in a year, yet analysts tracking hyperscaler storage contracts believe the real move is still ahead. Here is what the capacity allocation data reveals about where this stock could go next.
Hard drives look like a relic next to the glamorous AI chip trade, yet Seagate shareholders have watched the stock surge nearly 300% in a single year.
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Seagate Technology NASDAQ: STX CFO Gianluca Romano said the hard-disk-drive maker expects demand for data storage to continue outpacing supply, supported by public-cloud spending, enterprise demand and emerging artificial intelligence applications.
Seagate Technology NASDAQ: STX CFO Gianluca Romano said demand for mass storage is being supported by the early stages of artificial intelligence infrastructure investment, with growth extending from large public-cloud customers to enterprise original equipment manufacturers and on-premises data centers.
Seagate Technology has secured nearline drive orders with defined pricing and configuration through the entirety of calendar 2027. I think the story shifted to 2028, when the vast majority of nearline exabytes are already allocated, although pricing visibility is lower. Seagate says HAMR can support at least 25% annual exabyte growth over the next two to three years while keeping drive units broadly stable.
Seagate Technology Holdings (NASDAQ:STX | STX Price Prediction) stock is down 4% to $827.88 in Friday afternoon trading, giving back a slice of a run that has tripled the shares this year.
STX expects fiscal 2027 revenue growth to exceed fiscal 2026 as cloud demand, AI adoption and HAMR expansion support mass-capacity storage.
Vertiv and Seagate both crushed earnings on the same AI tailwind, but their strategies run in opposite directions, and only one of them has capacity left to sell.
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