Micron’s HBM4 Nod Couldn’t Stop the Slide — June 24 Holds the Only Cure

The stock has spent the past two weeks giving back nearly a fifth of its value, yet the revenue pipeline has never looked more secure. Micron’s HBM4 certification for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform, confirmed by Jensen Huang on June 5, should have been a catalyst. Instead, the shares have fallen 19.57% from the year’s high of €938.70 and closed Friday at €755.00. All eyes are now on June 24, when the company reports third-quarter results and, more importantly, delivers a view of the path ahead.

The imbalance between the underlying business and the market’s reaction is stark. Micron’s entire HBM capacity for fiscal 2026 is already locked under fixed-price, long-term contracts. The last reported quarter produced $23.86 billion in revenue — nearly triple the year-ago figure — and a GAAP net profit of $13.79 billion. For the current quarter, the company has guided to record revenue of $33.5 billion and a gross margin around 81%. Those are numbers that, in a normal cycle, would send a stock soaring. But this is not a normal cycle; it is one where expectations have run so far ahead that only a perfect beat can keep the rally intact.

The proximate cause of the sell-off was not Micron’s own doing. On June 4, Broadcom reported AI chip revenue of $16 billion for its fiscal third quarter, short of the $17.2 billion analysts had pencilled in. Worse, CEO Hock Tan declined to lift the full-year AI revenue target. That sent Broadcom’s stock down more than 12% and triggered a sector-wide rotation out of semiconductor names that had surged. Micron, with a 698.93% gain over the preceding twelve months, was an easy target. A strong U.S. jobs report on Friday — 172,000 new payrolls versus an expected 80,000 — then doused hopes for swift Federal Reserve rate cuts, adding macro pressure.

The sell-off has been violent but not indiscriminate. Over the past week Micron has lost 15.02%; over the past month it is still up 19.18%, and year-to-date the gain stands at 180.67%. The RSI has cooled to 56.2, well clear of the overbought zone. That technical pullback suggests the stock had simply become too expensive too fast. The 30-day annualised volatility of 100.78% is a reminder that this is a high-beta name that can swing violently on sentiment shocks.

Should investors sell immediately? Or is it worth buying Micron?

Valuation is the elephant in the room. The average analyst price target sits at €641.72, meaning Micron currently trades about 15% above Street consensus. The shares are also 41.53% above their 50-day moving average and 142.71% above the 200-day line — distances that typically attract mean-reversion arguments. Yet the consensus is catching up; Morgan Stanley, for instance, more than doubled its price target after the latest DRAM price surge. If earnings momentum continues, the current premium could prove justified.

The HBM4 qualification is a genuine milestone. Nvidia will use the new memory in its Vera Rubin platform, with first deliveries expected in the third quarter. But certification does not guarantee dominant market share. Supply-chain sources estimate SK Hynix will capture 60% to 70% of the Vera Rubin HBM volumes, with Samsung taking roughly a quarter to a third, leaving a smaller slice for Micron. Still, being on the approved list for the most important AI hardware cycle is a prerequisite for volume growth, and Micron’s fixed-price contracts for the whole of fiscal 2026 provide rare revenue visibility for a cyclical memory maker.

The company is also investing heavily to capture that opportunity. Micron has outlined capacity expansion plans of around $200 billion, with capital spending for fiscal 2026 expected to exceed $25 billion and rise further the following year. Generative AI training and inference are forecast to account for more than 55% of total HBM demand in that same period. The bull case rests on the idea that this cycle is structurally different — multi-year contracts and advanced packaging bottlenecks have transformed Micron from a commodity supplier into a critical infrastructure partner.

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That is why June 24 matters so much. For the current quarter, analysts expect revenues of roughly $33.8 billion, just above the company’s own $33.5 billion guidance. The real test is the outlook for the following quarter. Consensus is calling for around $39.6 billion. If Micron can guide north of $40 billion, it would provide a powerful counter-narrative to the valuation sceptics. A figure below that — or anything that hints at weakening pricing — would validate the recent sell-off as foreshadowing rather than an overreaction.

Micron’s story is not broken; the drop was sector-driven and partly a natural correction after an extraordinary run. But the stock now trades at a level that demands proof. On June 24, management has to show that the HBM4 certification translates not just into a place on Nvidia’s roadmap, but into the kind of revenue trajectory that makes the current price look like a discount.

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