Overview
- Micron shares slipped to about $848 on July 19 after two sessions of heavy selling, leaving the stock roughly 26.5% below its June high.
- The latest drop followed TSMC’s move to raise full-year capital spending to $60–$64 billion, which pushed investors to worry higher industry capex will compress semiconductor free cash flow.
- Earlier pressure came from reports that China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies is preparing an $8.55 billion IPO and from SK Hynix’s Nasdaq listing that plunged more than 15% on July 10, which amplified selling across memory names.
- Customer-level signals such as reports that cloud provider CoreWeave explored hedges against falling memory prices, plus short-term technical weakness and high-profile bearish trades and insider sales, have heightened near-term downside concerns.
- Despite the pullback, major analysts keep Buy ratings with $1,400–$1,600 targets and cite structural DRAM tightness and Micron’s supply commitment agreements as reasons to expect recovery ahead of the company’s September 22 earnings report.