What happened: Semiconductor stocks declined on Wednesday as a record profit from memory maker SK Hynix (000660.KS, SKHY) failed to lift the sector, further unwinding the AI trade.
The PHLX Semiconductor Index (^SOX) fell more than 3%, extending losses from the prior session. AI chip heavyweight Nvidia (NVDA) stock dropped more than 2% while peer AMD (AMD) fell roughly 5%.
Memory and storage makers Micron (MU) and Sandisk (SNDK) dropped 5% and 7%, respectively.
What's behind the move: SK Hynix reported a record second quarter operating profit, which rose 557% from a year earlier but fell short of lofty expectations, fueling investor concerns about whether AI-related spending can sustain its rapid pace.
The earnings miss reflected a less favorable product mix rather than weakening demand for AI memory chips. Management reiterated that demand is expected to outpace supply through 2030.

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Memory-chip stocks Micron Technology (MU) and SK Hynix (SKHY) fell Monday after Chinese rival ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, rocketed in its initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
CXMT shares soared 466% in an IPO on Monday, giving the company a market capitalization of $484 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. CXMT makes dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, competing with Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix.
Another Chinese memory-chip maker, Yangtze Memory Technologies, is expected to conduct an IPO later this year, the Journal said. Yangtze, also known as YMTC, makes Nand flash memory chips and competes with Sandisk (SNDK) as well as Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix.
On the stock market today, Micron slid 2.3% to close at 900.20. SK Hynix dropped 7.5% to 143.02. Sandisk stock plunged 11% to 1,278.23.
In a client note, Wedbush Securities ******* yst Matt Bryson questioned how successful CXMT's business could be outside of China. Because of U.S. export restrictions, CXMT doesn't have access to ASML's (ASML) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography gear so it can't make faster, higher-capacity chips to compete with Micron and its South Korean peers.

#micron #Stock

The AI memory supercycle has emerged as one of 2026's most defining stories, and also one of its most contested. Hyperscaler capital expenditure is expected to reach $750 billion this year, with Goldman Sachs forecasting $7.6 trillion in total AI infrastructure spending through 2031, resulting in a supply shortage of NAND and DRAM memory as data center demand for high-performance storage clashes against the chipmakers' capacity limitations.
That scarcity has been aggravated by reports that TSMC may boost contract chip manufacturing prices by up to 10% in 2027, with some products facing increases of up to 20%, owing to increased materials, equipment, and overseas facility development expenses.
Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) is one of the names that have benefited the most from the supercycle. Since its February 2025 spinoff from Western Digital at $35.06 per share, Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has become the single best-performing stock in the S&P 500, climbing up to 858% at its late-June peak on the back of explosive fundamentals: fiscal Q3 2026 revenue reached $5.95 billion, up 97% sequentially and 251% year-over-year, with datacenter revenue specifically up 645% year-over-year.
Management anticipates continued sequential acceleration in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, with total revenue expected to range between $7.75 billion and $8.25 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share between $30 and $33, as gross margins increase to near 80%. More crucially, Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) reported that its remaining performance obligations and contracted backlog came in between $41.6 billion and $42 billion. Sandisk's entire 2026 enterprise AI storage capacity is sold out under long-term agreements, thus locking in multibillion-dollar cash flows for the rest of the calendar year.
Despite its strong operational reports, Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has not been immune to macroeconomic turbulence. In mid-July, shares fell 8% to 15% across a number of sessions, contributing to a 39% slide from late-June record highs, as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell more than 20%. According to market ****** ysts, this pullback is the result of an industry-wide valuation adjustment rather than a structural decline in memory demand or corporate earnings power.

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What happened: Semiconductor stocks fell on Tuesday, with the PHLX Semiconductor Index (^SOX) falling more than 3% as investors continued to unwind positions in one of the market's hottest AI-driven sectors this year.
US-listed shares of memory and storage leaders Micron Technology (MU), SK Hynix (SKHY), and Sandisk (SNDK) all fell more than 8% and 13%, respectively. Among the semiconductor equipment makers, ASML (ASML), Applied Materials (AMAT), and Lam Research (LRCX) also dropped.
AI chip heavyweight Nvidia (NVDA) stock reversed early morning losses to climb into green territory following a 5% drop on Monday. Peer AMD (AMD) fell more than 7%. Chip maker Intel (INTC), along with Marvell (MRVL) and Qualcomm (QCOM), also slid.
What's behind the move: The sell-off followed declines in semiconductor stocks abroad. In South Korea, SK Hynix fell more than 14%, while Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) dropped more than 13%.
European semiconductor stocks also moved lower as concerns about circular financing and intensifying competition from China have weighed on the sector.

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With a market cap of $236.8 billion, Sandisk Corporation (SNDK) is a leading developer, manufacturer, and provider of NAND flash-based data storage devices and solutions, delivering innovative technologies for consumers, businesses, and enterprises worldwide. Its broad portfolio includes solid-state drives (SSDs), memory cards, USB flash drives, embedded storage products, and semiconductor components designed to securely store, access, and manage digital data.
The Milpitas, California-based company is set to unveil its fiscal Q4 2026 results after the market closes on Wednesday, Aug. 5. Ahead of this event, ***** ysts expect SNDK to report a profit of $33.28 per share, up significantly from $0.02 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has surpassed Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in each of the past four quarters.
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Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) provides storage systems, servers, networking gear, and consulting services, as well as laptops, desktops, workstations, and accessories. On Tuesday's episode of Mad Money, Jim Cramer addressed some of the complaints his viewers made regarding Dell and other companies whose stocks experienced a massive rally. He stated:
Some of you have complained to me that I've kept you out of Sandisk, which is up 570% year-to-date, Micron up 240%, Seagate up 224%, Dell up 221%, and Western Digital up 218%. I don't know how that's possible. I've liked Micron for ages, and if you asked Michael Dell who's the most positive person in the media toward his amazing company, I bet he'd say Jim Cramer. So I'm not anti-tech, but I do like diversification. We've had some sickening days of late where all these stocks that I just mentioned got clobbered.
Cramer has been a strong proponent of Dell Technologies Inc.'s (NYSE:DELL) stock for a while now. In fact, Cramer showed regret around missing opportunities in the stock over several episodes of Mad Money. He repeated the sentiment during the July 1 episode, as he stated:
Oh, then there's two that I'm really embarrassed and even mortified to talk about: AMD and Dell. With AMD, the Trust had made a lot of money in this one, and we took the big profit, but I said, don't worry about it, I'll get right back in after another run. But the pullback never came, so I missed it.
Dell? I put Dell in the Trust bullpen, saying it should be bought on any dip, but it never dipped. This stock just exploded higher without me. I missed one of the greatest stories ever told, and I'm a four-decade supporter of Michael Dell. What do all these missed winners have in common? I was too skeptical. I was… too wary. I failed to consider where they could go and instead focused on where they had come from.

#cramer #technologies #NYSE

Perhaps those worried about the sell-offs in momentum memory chip stocks such as Micron (MU) and Sandisk (SNDK) should read the second quarter earnings release from auto giant General Motors (GM).
Because it sure looks like the memory chip supply shortage driving up prices is alive and well, despite market fears of a slowdown.
Quick insight: GM posted better-than-expected second quarter earnings on Tuesday before the opening bell on Wall Street. For the second time this year, GM lifted its full-year profit forecast despite higher memory chip costs and tariff impacts.
But GM's guidance for $1.5 billion to $2 billion commodity inflation and higher DRAM (aka memory chips) costs was initially lost in the headlines. This range from three months ago was reiterated, but it remains higher than the $1 billion to $1.5 billion guidance coming into 2026.
What's behind the move: The memory chip market is tightening as demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced DRAM used in AI servers continues to outpace supply.

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Anyone can become a millionaire. But it takes an understanding of the S&P 500.
An investment of just $170,660 in January in Sandisk (SNDK) would be worth a million today, says data from S&P Global Market Intelligence and MarketSurge. That's a gain of more than $829,000 in just seven months.
What's amazing, though, is that Sandisk is not a one-off winner. A number of S&P 500 stocks didn't require small fortunes to turn people into millionaires this year.
Sandisk is certainly the most dramatic example of turning a chunk of money into a million bucks. Shares of the stock are up 486% this year, making them the top performer in the S&P 500. You only needed to buy 719 shares at the start of the year to have $1 million now.
Shares of Sandisk carry a 99 RS Rating due to their enormous run this year. The company's memory chips are proving to be critical to the buildout of AI in 2026.

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September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU26) are up +0.57%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU26) are up +1.39% this morning, pointing to a higher open on Wall Street as a rebound in chipmakers gained momentum.
Chip and AI infrastructure stocks climbed in pre-market trading as investors snapped up names tied to the AI buildout at lower valuations after they suffered their worst week in more than a year. Sandisk (SNDK) was up over +8%, Marvell Technology (MRVL) was up more than +6%, and Intel (INTC) was up over +5%. The positive mood followed strong gains for semiconductor and other AI-related stocks in South Korea, Taiwan, and ****** an.
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Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) provides storage systems, servers, networking gear, and consulting services, as well as laptops, desktops, workstations, and accessories. On Tuesday's episode of Mad Money, Jim Cramer addressed some of the complaints his viewers made regarding Dell and other companies whose stocks experienced a massive rally. He stated:
Some of you have complained to me that I've kept you out of Sandisk, which is up 570% year-to-date, Micron up 240%, Seagate up 224%, Dell up 221%, and Western Digital up 218%. I don't know how that's possible. I've liked Micron for ages, and if you asked Michael Dell who's the most positive person in the media toward his amazing company, I bet he'd say Jim Cramer. So I'm not anti-tech, but I do like diversification. We've had some sickening days of late where all these stocks that I just mentioned got clobbered.
Cramer has been a strong proponent of Dell Technologies Inc.'s (NYSE:DELL) stock for a while now. In fact, Cramer showed regret around missing opportunities in the stock over several episodes of Mad Money. He repeated the sentiment during the July 1 episode, as he stated:
Oh, then there's two that I'm really embarrassed and even mortified to talk about: AMD and Dell. With AMD, the Trust had made a lot of money in this one, and we took the big profit, but I said, don't worry about it, I'll get right back in after another run. But the pullback never came, so I missed it.
Dell? I put Dell in the Trust bullpen, saying it should be bought on any dip, but it never dipped. This stock just exploded higher without me. I missed one of the greatest stories ever told, and I'm a four-decade supporter of Michael Dell. What do all these missed winners have in common? I was too skeptical. I was… too wary. I failed to consider where they could go and instead focused on where they had come from.

#money #NYSE #micron

I have watched Seagate's comeback story, and it has been one of the most impressive in the entire S&P 500. In fact, after the comeback, Seagate now ranks fourth in the top year-to-date S&P 500 performers according to Slickcharts.
That performance is after Sandisk, Dell, and Micron. But on Friday, July 17, Jim Cramer posted on X (formerly Twitter) something you should pay attention to, and it was not a buy call.
Comeback in Seagate is impressive, even as I think it might be an excellent opportunity to trim if you don't have much cash on hand.
Seagate Technology (STX) closed the week at $787.66, up 5.66% on the session, according to Yahoo Finance. The stock is up 186.72% year-to-date and 441.28% over the past year. You may think those are typos, but they're not. The three-year return stands at 1,285.43%.
Cramer is not calling this a sell. No. He is calling it a trim, and the distinction matters.

#year #impressive

I have watched Seagate's comeback story, and it has been one of the most impressive in the entire S&P 500. In fact, after the comeback, Seagate now ranks fourth in the top year-to-date S&P 500 performers according to Slickcharts.
That performance is after Sandisk, Dell, and Micron. But on Friday, July 17, Jim Cramer posted on X (formerly Twitter) something you should pay attention to, and it was not a buy call.
Comeback in Seagate is impressive, even as I think it might be an excellent opportunity to trim if you don't have much cash on hand.
Seagate Technology (STX) closed the week at $787.66, up 5.66% on the session, according to Yahoo Finance. The stock is up 186.72% year-to-date and 441.28% over the past year. You may think those are typos, but they're not. The three-year return stands at 1,285.43%.
Cramer is not calling this a sell. No. He is calling it a trim, and the distinction matters.

#impressive #think #trim

A lot of things weren't on my bingo card coming into this week.
I didn't expect a billionaire tech founder to show me a lot of vintage supercars they just purchased. That was fun, I love cars.
Speaking of cars, I also didn't expect a $900 bill for a one-hour service on my new car. But hey, at least the dealership took a video of my car being worked on, sent it to me, and said they thought the car was beautiful. That makes shelling out $900 for some oil, wiper blades, a cabin filter, and expertly inflated tires a little more palatable.
From a market standpoint, I didn't anticipate further beatings in red-hot memory chip names like Micron (MU), Sandisk (SNDK), and IBM (IBM). All three could now be considered crashed-out tech stocks. But only one is dead money, given my many chats with experts.
That is IBM.

What happened: Semiconductor stocks jumped on Monday in early trading, recovering from a rout that left the PHLX Semiconductor Index (^SOX) down more than 9% last week.
AI chip heavyweight Nvidia (NVDA) rose more than 2%, while AMD (AMD) jumped 4% on ****** yst price target calls. Broadcom (AVGO) and Intel (INTC) also gained on Monday. Marvell (MRVL) and Qualcomm (QCOM) rose as well, reversing Friday's losses.
Memory and storage leaders Micron Technology (MU) and SK Hynix (SKHY), meanwhile, jumped 5%. Highflier Sandisk (SNDK) gained more than 3%. Among the semiconductor equipment makers, ASML (ASML), Applied Materials (AMAT), and Lam Research (LRCX) edged higher.
What's behind the move: Chipmaker AMD was selected as a "top pick" by Rosenblatt, which raised its price target on the stock to $665 from $490. UBS ****** ysts also raised their price target on the stock to $700, maintaining a Buy rating ahead of the chipmaker's annual AI conference this week.
Despite the semiconductor pullback, Wall Street sees the AI trade intact with the semiconductor index 20% decline over the past month signaling "a positioning unwind following a 90% year-to-date rally," according to UBS ****** ysts.

CES, held annually in January, is one of the most important trade shows where tech companies go to unveil innovations and showcase bold ideas for the future.
At the 2026 event, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offered something that has been just as impactful: his insights about the growing memory needs of artificial intelligence (AI). And based on where the stock prices of Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) and Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) have gone since then, his understand of the situation was right on the money.
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Large language models are being asked to deliver on requests promptly, but there's also a growing expectation that these tools will preserve users' older requests and conversations as time savers to provide context for the new ones. That requires increasingly higher memory capacity in the data centers that power those AIs, which Huang alluded to in his January CES speech:
We would like this AI to stay with us our entire lives and remember every single conversation we've ever had with it, right? Every single lick of research that I've asked for. Of course, the number of people sharing the supercomputer will continue to grow. And so, this context memory, which started out fitting inside an HBM, is no longer large enough.

Stocks ended the week a long way from a bear market. But the "bear" word has started to crop up more in discussions among market ***** ysts. The Nasdaq ended below recent lows and leaning toward its next-nearest tests, the lows from June 26 and June 9. The S&P 500 finished ever-so-slightly below its 50-day moving average, equal to its last slip below the line from June 26.
On the downside, Sandisk (SNDK), Astera Labs (ALAB) and Marvell Technology (MRVL) booked the week's biggest losses on the Nasdaq 100, with an average drop of 25.3%. Paypal Holdings (PYPL), Cintas (CTAS) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) held the upside, showing a 15.3% average gain. Results were similar on the S&P 500, but adding IBM (IBM) on the downside and Valero (VLO) among the week's winners.
The market is not providing a whole lot in the way of clues as to what comes next. Both the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 continue to trade below their early June highs. And rather than test those highs, wanting to break resistance and move higher, the indexes are instead testing lows and breaking technical support. Sellers are quietly overpowering buyers.
"Look, we are a trend-following methodology," says IBD Market Research Director Justin Nielsen. "And it's pretty easy when you're in a downtrend: we just kinda stay out. It's pretty easy when you're in an uptrend — that's where we like to push it, where we like to make money. This sideways action, this is where it's really tough."
That, for the time being, prescribes a course of caution: build watchlists, don't buy; rotate to cash where feasible and manage your capital with the understanding that it is unclear, for now, just where the stock market may be headed next.

It wasn't a great week for tech stocks, but CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) severely underperformed the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index. Shares of the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure provider plunged 18% for the week, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Volatility is common in stocks like CoreWeave, which are in heavy growth mode. Revenue is soaring, but the company is still losing money. But a report this week may have spooked investors, too.
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CoreWeave leases GPU computing power for the development and execution of AI models. It has been spending heavily to grow the volume of compute capacity it has available. That spending has included long-term supply agreements with chip manufacturers.
Demand is so high, though, that memory chip prices have gone through the roof. That's why investors have sent the stocks of names like Micron Technology and Sandisk soaring this year. The memory sector has historically been cyclical. As suppliers increase capacity while demand is high, a supply glut could follow, sharply dropping prices.

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A broad technology sector sell-off pressured the S&P 500 and NASDAQ this week, while energy and financial stocks gained on Strait of Hormuz tensions and strong bank earnings.
Netflix disappointed investors with a mixed earnings report, and next week's earnings from Alphabet will offer a key signal on the AI infrastructure trade's health.
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Another manic market week was punctuated by a tech wreck that pressured the S&P 500 and NASDAQ indexes. Nothing was working in the technology sector: chipmakers, neocloud providers, and hyperscalers were all down, as investors grew impatient or just tired of the artificial intelligence (AI) trade.

US stocks tumbled on Thursday as investors took stock of the AI boom and key earnings reports, while an escalation in the US-Iran war continued to weigh.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) reversed gains, falling 0.2%, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) lost 0.5%. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) declined by 1.5% as chip stocks came under pressure for a second day.
Shares of Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) sank more than 4% after Bloomberg reported the tech giant was behind schedule on the delivery of Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful AI model.
Semiconductor stocks continued to slide after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSM) robust earnings failed to impress markets, which have cycled through risk-on and risk-off sentiment amid investor scrutiny of high valuations. AI memory stocks, including SanDisk (SNDK) and Western Digital Corporation (WDC), were among the hardest hit.
In other earnings updates, UnitedHealth Group (UNH) reported a Q2 earnings beat before the bell, as did GE Aerospace (GE), while Netflix's (NFLX) second quarter report highlights the earnings calendar after the close.

What happened: Semiconductor stocks retreated on Friday. Memory and storage highfliers Micron Technology (MU) and Sandisk (SNDK) stocks dropped more than 2%, and Western Digital (WDC) fell more than 3%.
Chipmakers, including Nvidia (NVDA), AMD (AMD), Broadcom (AVGO), Intel (INTC), and Marvell (MRVL), also moved lower. Qualcomm (QCOM) retreated as well.
Among semiconductor equipment makers, Applied Materials (AMAT) and Lam Research (LRCX) each declined more than 4%.
Going into Friday's trading session, global semiconductor stocks had shed $3.3 trillion in market value since June 22.
What's behind the move: Semiconductor stocks have been volatile in recent weeks over concerns that investors will want to see a return on investment from big spenders on AI infrastructure.

Dow Jones futures edged higher early Thursday, while S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures fell amid continued weakness in chips and AI hardware. Nvidia chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor, GE Aerospace, UnitedHealth, J.B. Hunt Transport Services and United Airlines were big earnings movers before the open.
The stock market rally saw modest rises for the major indexes Wednesday, as strong gains in Apple (AAPL), Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL) and other megacap techs helped mask a bad day for chips and AI hardware.
Dell Technologies (DELL) sold off Wednesday, along with memory plays Sandisk (SNDK), Micron Technology (MU), SK Hynix (SKHY), Western Digital (WDC) and Seagate Technology (STX). Those names and other AI plays saw further losses early Thursday.
SpaceX (SPCX) briefly fell below its $135 IPO price for the first time.
Micron and ASML are on the IBD 50. Dell stock is on the IBD Big Cap 20. Micron stock is on IBD Sector Leaders. SK Hynix stock is on IPO Leaders. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) and Google stock are on the IBD Long-Term Leaders watchlist.

At midday, the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) slipped 1.06% to 26,002.95, and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) fell 0.49% to 7,538.37 as growth sectors faltered, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) declined 0.26% to 52,501.95.
Gold prices dropped 1.78% to $4,015.70 as of midday, and the 10-Year Treasury yield rose 0.03% to 4.60%. Consumer defensive stocks gained 1.03% while healthcare stocks dropped 1.08%.
Memory stocks dipped this morning after SK Hynix stocks plunged in South Korea. Last week, the chipmaker soared after its debut on U.S. exchanges, but today, investors sold off following a brokerage report suggesting it may not meet its quarterly profit estimates. The jitters dragged on peers, including Micron Technology, Seagate Technology, and Sandisk. Biogen gained following a Truist upgrade citing optimism for the company's Alzheimer's pipeline.
The prospect of further disruptions to oil supplies and increased hostilities in the Middle East weighed on stocks this morning. WTI crude surged 4.6% to almost $75 a barrel amid reports of renewed clashes between the U.S. and Iran, and potential restrictions on transit through the Strait of Hormuz.
Airline stocks, which had begun to recover on hopes of a full peace deal, dropped, and investors shifted again to defensive stocks. The worry is that elevated energy prices could fuel higher inflation, which could cause the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates and reduce risk appetite. All eyes will be on major banks this week as they kick off the second-quarter earnings season for clues about the resilience of consumers' financials and the economy.

Retail investors made SK Hynix (SKHY) one of their biggest buys on Friday, according to the latest data from VandaTrack. By Monday, the stock had fallen as much as 9% as South Korea's KOSPI (^KS11) plunged nearly 9%.
That kind of whiplash is becoming familiar. Retail traders are cashing out of Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia (NVDA), and chip stocks while chasing newer stories. The broader market is not following them lower.
VandaTrack data shows Sandisk (SNDK), Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia among the biggest sources of retail selling last week. Western Digital (WDC), Meta (META), and American Airlines (AAL) also made the list.
The flow pattern looks "more consistent with rotation than outright de-risking," Vanda wrote Monday. Retail trading activity remains near records, but investors are selling nearly as much as they buy.
The "Magnificent Seven" is no longer one retail position. Microsoft and Nvidia attracted net buying over Vanda's 10-day window, while Apple and Tesla became sources of cash.

Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) was among Jim Cramer's stock calls on Mad Money, as he advised investors to stick with the largest tech companies in the market. Cramer highlighted how the company's rally got triggered. He remarked:
Now, today was one of those days where the complex of Micron, Seagate, Lumentum, Corning, Western Digital, and Sandisk all took off, and they're all at the top of the S&P 500 leaderboard. These are all companies that make products where there's intense demand right now, mostly from the data center, and there's not enough supply.
This rally got triggered by an **** yst who raised his price target for Sandisk from $1,200 to $2,000. Where was that guy? Was he like hiking in the Andes for a while? I don't know. Come on, wake up. There was a clarion call that there are plenty of price increases still to come for their data storage products. When traders see that, they do three things, okay? They do three things. We're going to get them in the order that they do them. First thing they do, okay, well, they buy the stocks I just mentioned.
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Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) sells NAND flash-based storage solutions, including solid-state drives, embedded storage, removable cards, and USB drives.

September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU26) are down -0.29%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU26) are down -0.94% this morning, pointing to a lower open on Wall Street as chipmakers came under renewed selling pressure following a selloff in their South Korean peers.
Memory chip stocks tumbled in South Korea, sparking a selloff in AI-related stocks around the world. SK Hynix plummeted over -15% in Seoul, marking its steepest drop on record, as its historic U.S. trading debut on Friday triggered a "sell the news" reaction and profit-taking. SK Hynix's slump weighed on fellow memory giant Samsung Electronics, which sank more than -10%. U.S. chip and AI infrastructure stocks looked set to join the global selloff, with Sandisk (SNDK) falling over -6% and Micron Technology (MU) dropping more than -5% in pre-market trading. SK Hynix's ADRs were down over -9% in pre-market trading.
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What happened: Chip stocks declined in premarket trading on Monday, led by shares of South Korean memory maker SK Hynix (000660.KS, SKHYV).
What's behind the move: Investors took profits amid concerns of an increasingly overstretched and crowded trade. Worries over a report signaling that SK Hynix's operating profit for its current quarter may trail consensus estimates also weighed on sentiment.
SK Hynix stock sank 15% in Asia, setting the stage for a sharp decline in US traded shares after their stellar debut on Friday. Rival Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) also fell in South Korea, while AI memory stocks Micron (MU), Sandisk (SNDK), and Western Digital (WDC) all sank more than 5% on Monday morning.
Chip stocks Intel (INTC), AMD (AMD), Broadcom (AVGO), and Arm Holdings (ARM) also declined roughly 2% with the broader sector.
What else you need to know: The decline marks a sharp reversal from SK Hynix's US debut, in which its American depositary shares surged 13% above the $149 offering price on Friday. The company raised $26.5 billion in the offering, making it the largest US IPO ever by a foreign company.

Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Taiwan Semiconductor, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, GE Aerospace headline the first big earnings week. Key inflation reports and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh also are on tap.
The stock market had a mixed but generally positive week, even as oil prices rebounded. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq had strong gains while the Dow Jones edged lower, but right at all-time highs.
Cisco Systems (CSCO), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Sandisk (SNDK), Micron Technology (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) are stocks around buy areas. Meanwhile, ******* e Exploration Technologies (SPCX), better known as ******* eX, hit a new low.
Nvidia chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) and ASML (ASML) kick off chip earnings, while Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) lead a slew of big banks. GE Aerospace (GE), UnitedHealth (UNH), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), United Airlines (UAL) and American Airlines (AAL) also are ahead. All are setting up in various fashions.
On Tuesday, investors will get the June CPI inflation report, with PPI inflation on Wednesday. Fed chief Warsh will testify before Congress on those two days.

Binance users doubled their flows to artificial intelligence (AI) memory stocks to $133 million last week, concentrating capital into a key theme even as the sector sold off.
The move ran against the tape. Memory names were selling off, yet SanDisk (SNDK) and Micron (MU) together accounted for 79% of net equity inflows on the platform.
The figures come from Binance Research, whose weekly fund flow report covers the week ending July 8. Total net flow reached $169.2 million, down 12% from the prior week.
The decline reflects the July 4 holiday, which left only four US trading sessions. On a per-session basis, demand actually rose.
Technology attracted $191 million in inflows, accounting for 113% of the week's $169 million net total. AI memory doubled to $133 million, making it the largest theme. SanDisk took $67 million, and Micron Technology took $66 million.

What happened: Micron Technology (MU) stock jumped more than 4% on Thursday, joining a broader rally across memory and AI-related stocks. Sandisk (SNDK), Western Digital (WDC), Marvell (MRVL), Broadcom (AVGO), Intel (INTC), and AMD (AMD) also traded higher.
What's behind the move: The jump comes after reports that Asia's SK Hynix (000660.KS) is oversubscribed in its US IPO, signaling that institutional investors remain bullish on the AI memory trade.
On Thursday, Micron also unveiled plans to invest up to $3 billion to bolster the US semiconductor supply chain, with part of the investment supporting GlobalWafers' silicon wafer manufacturing operations in Texas.
Micron and GlobalWafers plan to enter a 10-year supply agreement, giving Micron long-term access to raw silicon wafer capacity.
What else you need to know: The artificial intelligence trade has been a major driver of earnings growth this year, helping propel the broader stock market higher.

It's Thursday, 2 p.m., and do you know where the Nasdaq is?
It's up a respectable 1.2% -- but the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares ETF (NYSEMKT: SOXL) is up much, much more, surging past 14.1% on some billion-dollar-plus news items in semiconductors today.
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The first news comes from Micron (NASDAQ: MU) stock, which is surging nearly 8% after announcing it's investing up to $3 billion "to strengthen the U.S. semiconductor supply chain ecosystem," including by loaning GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. $500 million to help build its 300mm raw silicon wafer manufacturing facility in Sherman, Tex., and its signing a 10-year deal to buy the wafers GlobalWafers churns out.
In related news, Reuters is reporting that Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has signed a multi-year supply agreement to source NAND flash memory for its data centers from Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK), and is also buying DRAM from Samsung, and fiber optic cables from Sumitomo Electric, and Iris artificial intelligence chips from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) -- with Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) doing the chip design work.