Tom Essaye Break Down Micron’s Earnings Beat With Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferre and Sevens Report Research Founder Tom Essaye break down Micron’s (MU) earnings beat and stronger-than-expected guidance. They discuss how record revenue and growing demand for AI memory chips may boost confidence in the broader AI trade.

You know, over the past couple days, you’ve sort of the market has gotten itself in sort of a negative feedback loop, right? Saying is this sustainable? Can the spending continue? Is there enough capital to continue to fund all this? And Micron came out and basically said, yes, yes, there is. And that’s turning sentiment around. The most important part of the Micron earnings were really their referencing these strategic customer agreements.

The whole key around the memory boom, much like inflation honestly, is it a flash in the pan or is it sustainable? Micron is growing earnings at like hundreds and hundreds of percent, but the stock only trades at a 10X forward multiple. The S&P 500 trades at a 20X forward multiple and isn’t growing earnings nearly as fast. The reason Micron and Nvidia are cheap is because investors are concerned that this earnings boom won’t last. If earnings, if investors believe it will last, which Micron’s earnings helped, you know, reinforce that idea, then this market has a lot more room to run.