ASML Earnings Review: Profits Doubled, but Will Wall Street Wait Until 2027? $ASML Holding NV(ASML)$ delivered strong Q3 2026 results, with revenue jumping 55% YoY and net profit more than doubling. The company also raised its full-year guidance for the third time this year, reinforcing confidence in the AI-driven semiconductor equipment cycle. However, investment gains boosted reported profits, while the equipment revenue mix deserves closer scrutiny. More importantly, investors may have to wait until June 2027 for an updated long-term financial outlook, even as demand threatens to exceed ASML's planned capacity through 2028. Core Financial Indicators – Q3 revenue reached €11.66 billion, up 55% YoY and 2
ASML Earnings Preview: Can 55% Sales Growth Still Surprise Wall Street? $ASML Holding NV(ASML)$ will report Q3 2026 earnings on Wednesday, October 14, helping kick off another closely watched semiconductor earnings season. After sharply raising its full-year outlook in July, the world's leading lithography equipment supplier faces a much higher bar. The central question is whether ASML can expand production fast enough to meet surging AI-driven demand and sustain its growth momentum into 2027 and 2028. Core Financial Indicators – Consensus expects Q3 revenue of €11.62 billion, up 55% YoY and 25% QoQ, compared with the previous guidance ceiling of €12.0 billion. – Consensus expects a Q3 gross margin of 55.
MU Technical Analysis: Stock Dips Below Short-Term Moving Averages on Shrinking Volume, Retracing to the Middle Band The mid-term uptrend structure remains intact, but short-term price has fallen back below EMA20, interrupting the upward rhythm. Price at 1029.00 is about 1.0% below EMA20 at 1039.47, yet still 3.5% above EMA50 at 994.34. The two lines are in a bullish alignment but price is stuck below the short-term moving average, which qualifies as a pullback within an uptrend rather than a breakdown. The key question is whether EMA50 can hold, as that line is the last line of defense for this upward trend. Bollinger Band width is 21.1%, an extremely wide volatility range. Price currently sits between the middle band at 1038.26 and the lower band at 928.70, having slipped from above the
Micron Shares Fall Below $1,000 but Options Still Near Cheapest in a Year $Micron Technology(MU)$ fell below $1,000 Monday morning but options are still priced near the cheapest level of the past year. Still, contracts expiring today, known as zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE), carry a much higher implied volatility — the options market's way of saying a sharp move could arrive within hours. Fear has a name. China's ChangXin Memory Technologies, which trades as $CXMT Corporation (688825.SH)$, has advanced a new chip design that stores more memory on a single chip, a new server-memory product that competitors $Samsung Electronics (005930.KR)$ and $SK hynix (SKHY.US)$ are also pursuing, South China Morning Post
Nvidia Trader Uses Cheap Options to Bet the Record Run Fades $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ options are near their cheapest levels of the past year, and on Friday morning a trader spent $7.88 million opening in-the-money January put options — using bargain pricing to bet that the stock's record run could fade rather than hold. The timing followed a rough Thursday for artificial-intelligence stocks. Nvidia shares fell 2.94% on Thursday after the Financial Times reported that OpenAI had told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50 billion, about $20 billion below a figure previously reported. If a central chip buyer is generating less revenue than assumed, the spending behind its orders gets harder to trust. Excha
SPCX Jumps 5% Ahead of Flight 14: Is Morgan Stanley's $300 Bull Case Waking Up? $Space Exploration Technologies Corp(SPCX)$ jumped 5.15% and is testing its 200-day EMA ahead of Flight 14. Morgan Stanley sees $300 as AI compute becomes a second growth engine, though another lock-up release arrives right after the launch. The Rally Has More Than One Catalyst The immediate catalyst is Starship Flight 14, but the bigger fundamental story is increasingly AI compute. Morgan Stanley currently rates SPCX Overweight with a $300 price target, versus Wednesday's $150.88 close. Its sum-of-the-parts framework assigns roughly $8/share to Space, $118 to Connectivity, $8 to X & Consumer AI, and $165 to Enterprise AI. In other words, more than half
AI Chip Stocks Are Selling Off Hard: Should Investors Buy, Hedge, or Wait? AI hardware stocks came under heavy selling pressure on Monday. The $PHLX Semiconductor Index (.SOX.US)$ fell more than 5% intraday, with $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ , $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ , $Broadcom(AVGO)$ and $Micron Technology(MU)$ among the biggest decliners. Meanwhile, $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ , $Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$ and $Meta Platforms (META.US)$ moved higher, while cybersecurity stocks