š Memory stocks just took a beating. But Iām not convinced the bigger story is over. SK Hynix: -7.6% Micron: -5.25% SanDisk: -4.98% At first glance, this looks like a simple semiconductor selloff. But I think thereās something more important happening underneath the surface. The market has been willing to pay up for memory companies because AI infrastructure has created an unusually strong demand environment for high-performance memory and storage. The problem? A huge part of the recent earnings growth is coming from pricing. SanDiskās latest quarter is a perfect example. Revenue jumped 51% sequentially, but roughly two-thirds of that increase was attributed to higher prices, with the remaining third coming from volume. That is an incredible setup when pricing is moving in the right direct
š§ What if the biggest mistake investors are making with memory stocks is treating this like a normal semiconductor cycle? Memory stocks got hit hard, and on the surface, the move makes sense. SK Hynix dropped 7.6%. Micron fell 5.25%. SanDisk dropped 4.98%. But I think thereās a bigger question investors should be asking: Is AI changing the economics of the memory industry permanently ā or are we simply watching another boom-and-bust cycle? For years, memory was one of the most brutally cyclical parts of semiconductors. Companies would add capacity ā supply would increase ā prices would fall ā margins would collapse ā production would get cut ā prices would recover. Then the cycle would start again. AI potentially changes that equation. Modern AI infrastructure requires enormous amounts of
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