Micron: A Comedy of Errors (and Earnings)

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So, Micron (MU 2.30%) just reported earnings that would make King Midas blush. Twelve dollars and twenty cents a share! Twenty-three point nine billion in revenue! Wall Street was expecting, what, pocket lint and a coupon for a free toaster? Eight seventy-nine a share? Nineteen billion? Oy vey, the analysts need a vacation. A long one. And yet… the stock is down. Down, I tell you! As of this morning, it’s taking a tumble – a good 5.8%. It’s like winning the lottery and then tripping over a banana peel. A very expensive banana peel.

Wait. What?

Yes, you heard correctly, folks. Micron nearly tripled its sales year-over-year. Last year they were selling memory chips for pennies, I swear! Now they’re practically printing money! Six hundred and eighty-two percent jump in earnings! GAAP, non-GAAP, who cares? It’s all green! The CEO, this Sanjay Mehrotra, he’s saying they set records. “New records!” he cries. “Across the board!” He’s practically tap-dancing on the balance sheet. And then they raise the dividend by 30%! It’s a generosity unheard of since… well, since my mother offered me a nickel for cleaning the gutters. And what do investors do? Sell! They sell! It’s enough to make a man question the very fabric of reality. Or at least the sanity of Wall Street.

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Now, they’re predicting revenue of $33.5 billion next quarter. Plus or minus $750 million. That’s like saying, “I’m going to eat a sandwich, plus or minus a small car.” It’s 260% more than last year! Analysts were expecting… less. Much less. They’re off by a country mile. And earnings? $18.90 a share! Plus or minus forty cents. They’re practically daring Wall Street to be wrong. At this rate, they’ll blow past analyst forecasts for the year, with growth that’s… well, it’s positively indecent. And yet, the stock is valued at a mere 12.2 times trailing earnings? It’s a steal! A highway robbery… in Micron’s favor. I’m starting to suspect a conspiracy. Maybe the analysts are all secretly employed by the competition.

They’re also talking about expanding capital expenditures. “Capex,” they call it. Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? Like a villain in a spy movie. “We must increase the capex!” Maybe that’s spooking investors. But honestly, at this price, with this growth rate? It looks like a bargain. A genuine, honest-to-goodness bargain. I’m half expecting a leprechaun to jump out and offer me a pot of gold. Don’t ask me where I’d keep it, though. I’m fresh out of rainbows.

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2026-03-19 17:42