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● Earnings outlook cut and institutional target price revision: senior analyst Mehdi Hoseini lowered the SanDisk target price from $3,250 to $3,050. Although he still maintains a “buy” rating, this adjustment directly triggered market worries that the storage cycle is peaking. SanDisk’s rise within the year at one point exceeded 858%. Profits at high levels were quickly taken as concentrated selling, and any negative news became a trigger for a stampede.
● Industry competition landscape reshuffled: China’s leading DRAM manufacturer, CXMT, completed an $8.6B-scale Shanghai IPO. On the first day of trading, the stock surged 466%. The capital market’s strong recognition of domestic storage industrialization was evident. This move directly threatens the long-term market share and pricing power of U.S.-listed storage companies represented by SanDisk and Micron, completely rewriting the global oligopoly competition landscape for storage chips.
● Macroeconomic pressure and demand concerns: high oil prices weigh on expectations of interest-rate cuts, and high-valuation growth stocks get punished via valuation compression. At the same time, Meta publicly rents out idle AI servers; the market has over-interpreted this as signs that AI compute demand has peaked. Coupled with Morgan Stanley’s warning that DRAM contract prices’ growth rate will drop sharply, capital has begun pricing the risk of future capacity oversupply early, putting collective pressure on high-valuation hardware sectors. $BANK $DEXE #长鑫开盘跌7.7%