Micron Technology is poised to become a winner from the rising demand for artificial-intelligence semiconductors, according to New Street Research.
On Tuesday, analyst Pierre Ferragu reaffirmed a Buy rating on the stock and reiterated his $150 target price.
He notes the memory outlook for datacenters for the second half of 2024 is “strong on all fronts with AI ramping and traditional server recovering,” and predicts Micron will keep beating expectations in the coming quarters.
In early trading Tuesday, Micron stock rose 1.9% to $96.41.
Ferragu estimates demand for memory in the AI server market will go up by 14 times over the next four years to $50 billion in 2027 from $3.5 billion in 2023.
“Increasing HBM [high bandwidth memory] content in AI servers is a multiyear growth driver for memory,” he wrote.
Micron is a leader in the markets for DRAM, which is used in desktop computers and servers, and for flash memory, which is found in smartphones and solid-state hard drives.
Micron stock is up 50% over the past 12 months, compared with a 34% rise for the iShares Semiconductor exchange-traded fund.