After Morgan Stanley and Citigroup gave Micron (NASDAQ: MU) a Buy rating last month, the company received another Buy, this time from Needham. Analyst Rajvindra Gill assigned a Buy rating to Micron today and set a price target of $115.00. The company’s shares closed last Wednesday at $89.11, close to its 52-week high of $95.75.
According to TipRanks.com, Gill is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 15.3% and a 64.7% success rate. Gill covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Sequans Communications S A, Smart Global Holdings, and Everspin Technologies.
Micron has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $110.21, which is a 21.7% upside from current levels. In a report issued on February 18, Daiwa also initiated coverage with a Buy rating on the stock with a $140.00 price target.
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Micron’s market cap is currently $99.68B and has a P/E ratio of 35.80. The company has a Price to Book ratio of 2.76.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 67 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of MU in relation to earlier this year.
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Micron Technology, Inc. engages in the provision of innovative memory and storage solutions. It operates through the following segments: Compute and Networking Business Unit (CNBU); Mobile Business Unit (MBU); Storage Business Unit (SBU); and Embedded Business Unit (EBU). The Compute and Networking Business Unit segment includes memory products sold into cloud server, enterprise, client, graphics, and networking markets. The Mobile Business Unit segment offers memory products sold into smartphone, and other mobile-device markets. The Storage Business Unit segment comprises of SSDs and component-level solutions sold into enterprise and cloud, client, and consumer solid-state drive (SSD) markets, other discrete storage products sold in component and wafer forms to the removable storage markets, and sales of 3D XPoint memory. The Embedded Business Unit segment consists of memory and storage products sold into automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. The company was founded by Ward D. Parkinson, Joseph L. Parkinson, Dennis Wilson, and Doug Pitman in October 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, ID.
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