MU · Kevin Cassidy (Rosenblatt Securities)
Cassidy said memory stocks at five to seven times forward earnings are very cheap against a ten-times mid-cycle value, and that data-center demand now makes the market more predictable.
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Both said on the morning of October 14, the day after a Chinese chipmaker's new memory design hit memory stocks.
Cassidy said memory stocks at five to seven times forward earnings are very cheap against a ten-times mid-cycle value, and that data-center demand now makes the market more predictable.
Dawson said the threat to memory margins is competition: the weakness is concentrated in memory names, and Micron is much weaker than Nvidia.
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| Date | Voice | Stance | Venue | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | Kevin O Shea | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | Micron offers exposure to the favorable long-term direction of AI, warranting repeated additions despite… |
| 2026-10-27 | Kevin O Shea | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | He is holding Micron through AI-related fear because its earnings remain phenomenal and the broader AI… |
| 2026-10-27 | Charles PayneHost, Making Money / Fox Business Network | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | Micron should benefit from three to five years of unprecedented profit generation driven by AI-related demand. |
| 2026-10-27 | Stephanie Link (Hightower)Chief Investment Strategist, Hightower | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Micron should rebound because its valuation remains near five times earnings despite strong cash generation… |
| 2026-10-26 | Unknown | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Memory chip makers like Micron supply the foundational compute layer for AI and benefit regardless of which… |
| 2026-10-23 | Sue Ennis | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | Memory is imperative for AI infrastructure and Micron's dominant market position (24% of DRAM, 18% of… |
| 2026-10-23 | George NobleFormer Fidelity & hedge fund manager | Bearish | Monetary Matters | Micron is over-earning at 85% gross margins that will normalize as Chinese and global semiconductor… |
| 2026-10-23 | Jim Lebenthal (Cerity)Partner, Cerity Partners | Bullish | CNBC Fast Money Final Trade | Micron's selloff reflects technical deleveraging by overexposed funds rather than any change in the AI… |
| 2026-10-22 | Unknown | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | Micron's move into vertical HBM and customer-specific customization should create high switching costs and de… |
| 2026-10-21 | Sylvia JablonskiCEO and CIO, Defiance ETFs | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | Micron is one of very few capable high-bandwidth-memory suppliers and offers a strong backlog, improving… |
| Date | Voice | Stance | Venue | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | Guy Adami (RiskReversal)Trader & CNBC Fast Money panelist | Bearish | CNBC Fast Money Final Trade | Memory cyclicality has not been engineered out despite the market narrative; if compute demand wanes even… |
| 2026-10-20 | James DemmertFounder & CIO, Main Street Research | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | Micron is trading at under 5x 2028 PE while AI infrastructure guidance is surging, and compressed multiples… |
| 2026-10-19 | Michael Kantrowitz | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Micron screens well on earnings revisions and free cash flow metrics relative to the broader semiconductor… |
| 2026-10-19 | Jim Cramer (CNBC)Host, CNBC's Mad Money | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Micron's underlying business is strong as confirmed by a visit to Boise HQ, even though the stock has… |
| 2026-10-19 | Marcus Lemonis | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | Micron is trading under 5x forward PE after tripling in price, indicating the market is pricing in less per… |
| 2026-10-16 | Stephanie Link (Hightower)Chief Investment Strategist, Hightower | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Micron has a phenomenal balance sheet after reducing debt 63% year-over-year to $5B, making it a high-quality… |
| 2026-10-15 | Beth KindigLead Tech Analyst & CEO, I/O Fund | Bullish | Fox Making Money (playlist) | Micron's 5-year HBM supply contracts provide multi-year revenue visibility unprecedented in the memory… |
| 2026-10-15 | Jesse FelderAuthor, The Felder Report | Bearish | Thoughtful Money (Adam Taggart) | Massive capital flowing into AI is creating an oversupply of memory chips while companies simultaneously… |
| 2026-10-14 | Cameron DawsonCIO, NewEdge Wealth | Bearish | Bloomberg TV (uncut) | Weakness within the semiconductor space is concentrated in memory names where all the margin expansion… |
| 2026-10-14 | Melvin MathewAI Analyst, Milk Road | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | China's CXMT threat targets DDR5 commodity DRAM only — HBM (high bandwidth memory), where Micron competes and… |
| 2026-10-14 | Ted MortensenTechnology Desk Sector Strategist, Baird | Bullish | Fox Business (uncut) | Micron is the cheapest stock in tech with the most upside: DRAM pricing is up triple digits, gross margins at… |
| 2026-10-14 | Kevin Cassidy | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Market is overreacting to Chinese DRAM architecture news — Chinese chipmakers lack the process-node… |
| 2026-10-14 | Gil LuriaManaging Director and Head of Technology Research, D.A. Davidson | Bullish | Bloomberg Open Interest | Memory stocks trade at only 5-6x earnings — one-third the market multiple — as if the AI buildout cycle is… |
| 2026-10-14 | Unknown | Bullish | Tom Lee | Proliferation of AI agents over the next 5 years will drive dramatically more token usage, which flows… |
| 2026-10-13 | Carter WorthMarket technician, Worth Charting | Bearish | CNBC Fast Money Final Trade | Micron's chart pattern is deteriorating amid rising competitive pressure from Chinese memory makers, with… |
| 2026-10-12 | Charles LemonidesFounder & CIO, ValueWorks | Bullish | Monetary Matters | Micron trades at low valuations to book and cash flow with earnings power expected to persist for another… |
| 2026-10-10 | Barbara DoranCEO & CIO, BD8 Capital Partners | Bullish | CNBC (newest, named investor) | Micron's take-or-pay contract structure means customers cannot cancel orders, validating that AI… |
| 2026-10-06 | Nancy TenglerCEO & CIO, Laffer Tengler Investments | Bullish | Bloomberg Open Interest | Micron's earnings proved the AI infrastructure capex trade will sustain, validating continued accumulation in… |
| 2026-10-05 | Mohnish PabraiFund manager — Pabrai Investment Funds | Bullish | interview | Memory chip makers form an AI-proof oligopoly—whoever wins the AI race still needs memory—and all three… |
| 2026-10-02 | Barbara DoranCEO & CIO, BD8 Capital Partners | Bullish | Fox Making Money (playlist) | Micron trades at only 6.5x forward PE but faces a structural demand shift — new capacity won't come online… |
| 2026-10-01 | Angelo ZinoSenior equity analyst, CFRA Research | Bullish | Bloomberg Surveillance | Broad-based Q4 upside across all four business units driven by data centers, with supply constrained by… |
| 2026-10-01 | Jake SilvermanSemiconductor analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence | Bullish | Bloomberg Open Interest | Micron's 87% gross margins are a floor rather than a peak because HBM price increases locked in for fiscal… |
| 2026-09-30 | Hendi SusantoPortfolio manager & research analyst, Gabelli Funds | Bullish | Bloomberg The Close | Micron operates in an oligopoly with limited competitors, hyperscalers are locking in multi-year supply… |
| 2026-09-30 | Erica BresciaManaging director, Redpoint Ventures | Bullish | Bloomberg The Close | Micron is a leader in high-bandwidth memory with wafer scarcity driving prices up across its whole product… |
| 2026-09-21 | Jay WoodsChief global strategist, Freedom Capital Markets | Bullish | Tom Lee | Micron's upcoming earnings report is a near-term catalyst and the stock has another 10% to go as… |
| 2026-09-18 | Dan IvesTech analyst, Wedbush Securities | Bullish | The Compound | Memory stocks like Micron are front and center in the AI cycle and will prove out the bull thesis quarter by… |
| 2026-08-18 | Tom HayesFounder & chairman, Great Hill Capital | Bearish | Fox Varney & Co | Memory is a highly cyclical commodity business with new capacity coming online, and Micron is pricing in… |
| 2026-08-13 | Stephanie Link (Hightower)Chief Investment Strategist, Hightower | Bullish | CNBC Halftime Final Trades | Micron has $100B in take-or-pay bookings through end of decade, demand will exceed supply at least through… |
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| 2026-07-24 | Michael Green (Simplify)Chief Strategist & PM, Simplify | Short | Michael Green | Micron's fundamental multiple should have contracted significantly but has been artificially propped by… |
| 2026-07-21 | Stephanie Link (Hightower)Chief Investment Strategist, Hightower | Bullish | CNBC Halftime Final Trades | Micron is down 24% from highs while fundamentals remain strong—16 deals signed last quarter generating $100B… |
| 2026-07-15 | Peter BoockvarCIO, OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners | Bearish | Wealthion | Micron's 85% gross margins and ~10x peak sales valuation mirror the 1999-2000 DRAM cycle top; a low P/E on a… |
| 2026-07-10 | Peter BoockvarCIO, OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners | Bearish | Louis-Vincent Gave | Chinese DRAM and NAND competitors CXMT and Yangtze Memory Technology are systematically targeting Micron's… |
| 2026-07-10 | Ben ReitzesTech analyst, Melius Research | Bullish | CNBC Television | Micron is a leader in HBM stacked DRAM for AI workloads and benefits directly from insatiable demand from… |
| 2026-07-09 | Kevin Mahn (Hennion & Walsh)President & CIO, Hennion & Walsh | Bullish | Yahoo Finance | Memory is a hard bottleneck for AI—no memory means the AI revolution stops—and Micron trades at just 6x… |
| 2026-07-08 | Michael Green (Simplify)Chief Strategist & PM, Simplify | Bearish | Michael Green | Micron's current margins are cyclically unsustainable given the well-documented boom-bust nature of memory… |
| 2026-07-07 | Steve SosnickChief Strategist, Interactive Brokers | Bearish | Fox Business | Parabolic trend in semiconductors has broken and Micron's stock barely reacted to terrific earnings… |
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| 2026-06-27 | Gavin BakerFounder & CIO, Atreides Management | Bullish | All-In Podcast | DRAM/HBM is the defining AI bottleneck—only three companies can make it, new supply contracts with floor… |
| 2026-06-26 | Rashad Bilal Troy MillingsCo-founders & CEOs, Earn Your Leisure | Bullish | Bloomberg The Close | AI's structural permeation of society requires ever-growing memory supply, and the current supply constraint… |
| 2026-06-25 | Joe Terranova (Virtus)Chief market strategist, Virtus | Bullish | Tom Lee | Memory has shifted from cyclical commodity to irreplaceable AI resource — Micron secured 16 strategic… |
| 2026-06-25 | Jim Lebenthal (Cerity)Partner, Cerity Partners | Bullish | Tom Lee | At worst in mid-innings of the cycle; earnings estimates will rise sharply on the guidance given, making the… |
| 2026-02-24 | Isabella Student PresenterStudent presenter, Applied Value Investing pitch challenge | Bullish | Value Investing with Legends | Memory has become the structural bottleneck in AI as GPU memory requirements multiply (B300 needs 3.6x the… |
| 2025-07-04 | Shay BoloorChief Market Strategist, Futurum Equities Research | Bullish | The Compound | Micron is a direct beneficiary of inference explosion — as training costs fall and AI workloads multiply… |
| 2024-11-08 | Katie StocktonTechnical strategist — Fairlead | Bullish | The Compound | Micron has an active DeMark buy signal with approximately a two-week duration, offering a short-term… |
| 2023-06-16 | Bonawyn EisonEquity derivatives strategist | Bullish | CNBC Fast Money Final Trade | Micron offers a tradeable opportunity by looking through near-term China headwinds, which are transient… |
| 2019-10-24 | Unknown | Bullish | CNBC Fast Money Final Trade | Chip sector softness (as seen with Texas Instruments) is already reflected; Micron is set to move higher… |
| 2019-06-17 | Bill MillerFounder, Miller Value Partners (retired) | Bullish | The Intrinsic Value Podcast | Trading at ~5x depressed earnings with 20% ROE and active buybacks while China/Huawei concerns are already… |
| Report | When | EPS actual vs est. | Reaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep 2026 | after the close | 33.42 vs 32.56 | +2.0% |
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