5-star analyst revamps Micron stock price target before earnings

Micron Technology (MU) just got a massive bullish call from one of Wall Street’s finest just days before its next earnings report.

Citi analysts led by Atif Malik reiterated their Buy rating on the memory giant, bumping their price target to $430 from $385.

At the time of writing, on Monday, March 9, 2026, Micron Technology stock closed at $387.70, according to Yahoo Finance. 

Malik argues that, given the strong fundamentals in the memory market, Micron’s revenue could surge far beyond current expectations.

For perspective, Citi’s Atif Malik is a five-star Wall Street analyst, according to TipRanks.

He ranks No. 5 out of 12,127 Wall Street analysts and No. 18 out of 44,357 experts, attracting a 73% success rate, with 364 of 496 ratings generating a profit.

As per Seeking Alpha, Micron is expected to report its fiscal Q2 2026 results on March 18, 2026, after the bell. 

Wall Street analysts are looking for normalized EPS of $8.59, GAAP EPS of $8.52, and revenue of $19.10 billion. Moreover, analyst revisions stayed firmly in the green, with 24 upward revisions and 0 downward revisions over the past three months.

Micron’s been one of the hottest stocks over the past year, in an otherwise mixed year for the tech industry.

For some color, if you’d invested $10,000 into Micron stock a year ago, you would have grown your stake into nearly $43,300 today (a $33,300 profit).

Just last month, I wrote about a Morgan Stanley note on Micron that was full of glowing praise for the memory chip maker.

“As much as happened in the last 12 months in DRAM, we remain excited for what’s ahead,” Morgan Stanley’s Joseph Moore wrote, underscoring tightening supply conditions across the market.

He also forecasted that Micron could earn as high as $52 per share in 2026, driven primarily by relentless demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in Nvidia’s (NVDA)AI chips.

Malik and his team believe that the powerful combination of surging AI demand and supply bottlenecks linked to new chip fabrication capacity will extend the current cycle, pushing Micron’s stock to new heights.

Citi’s five-star analyst Atif Malik raises Micron price target ahead of earnings as memory prices surge

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Wall Street price targets for Micron stockDeutsche Bank raised its Micron target to $500. UBS raised its Micron target to $475.Bank of America raised its Micron target to $400. Stifel raised its Micron target to $550.Morgan Stanley raised its Micron target to $450.
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Citi sees powerful AI-driven memory cycle forming

Citi’s upbeat call on Micron isn’t exactly a new idea. The global memory market is being supercharged by AI infrastructure spending, and that tailwind remains firmly in place.

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According to Malik and his team, DRAM pricing (the core memory used in AI accelerators) could rise by 171% year-over-year in 2026.

That’s an unprecedented pace and the kind of price acceleration that presents one of the most remarkable rebounds the memory space has seen in years.

At the same time, the recovery isn’t limited to just DRAM.

NAND flash could see prices climb 127%, spearheaded by relentless demand from cloud czars and corporate data infrastructure upgrades.

These lofty estimates are backed up by evidence from many of Micron’s peers.

According to Longbridge’s reporting, Samsung raised DRAM prices by nearly 100% quarter over quarter in Q1.

Moreover, the tech giant’s memory business posted record sales and operating profit in Q4, driven by sturdy DRAM demand and growing HBM sales. 

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Micron’s own numbers are just as impressive, if not more.

In fiscal Q1 2026, Micron said DRAM revenue struck a record $10.8 billion, up a whopping 69% year-over-year, with DRAM prices rising 20% sequentially. 

On top of that, third-party pricing trackers reinforce that message.

TrendForce projects conventional DRAM contract prices will jump another 90% to 95% sequentially in Q1 2026, while blended conventional DRAM, along with HBM pricing, is expected to rise 80% to 85%.

Moreover, as per a February report from TrendForce, PC DRAM prices were said to be on track to surge 105% to 110% in Q1, while server DRAM was expected to rise 88% to 93%.

Citi argues that the setup we’re seeing echoes of earlier semiconductor supercycles, when rapid tech adoption led to multi-year demand surges.

The difference this time is AI.

Chip fabrication capacity remains limited, and hyperscaler demand from cloud giants continues to climb, elongating the pricing upswing.

Micron stock returns vs. the S&P 500Over 1 week, Micron Technology returned -6.23% versus the S&P 500’s -1.30%.Over 1 month, Micron Technology returned -2.03% versus the S&P 500’s -2.06%.Over 6 months, Micron Technology returned 194.34% versus the S&P 500’s 4.75%.Year to date, Micron Technology returned 35.48% versus the S&P 500’s -0.82%.Over 1 year, Micron Technology returned 333.15% versus the S&P 500’s 18.31%.Over 3 years, Micron Technology returned 580.40% versus the S&P 500’s 67.71%.Over 5 years, Micron Technology returned 334.80% versus the S&P 500’s 76.72%.
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Investor takeaway on Micron stock ahead of earnings

Ahead of another hotly anticipated earnings report, Micron stock looks like a setup investors may want to approach with discipline.

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The setup at this point is attractive, but expectations remain incredibly high.

Micron stock isn’t trading cheaply, and, according to Seeking Alpha, it’s trading at nearly 33 times non-GAAP earnings, the sector median of 22.52, and well above its five-year average of 17.14. Moreover, it’s trading at 9.80 times trailing sales, compared to the sector median of 3.21 and the 4.26 five-year average. 

However, that forward picture is a lot friendlier. 

Micron stock trades at nearly 11-times forward non-GAAP earnings, strikingly below the sector median of 21.22,  suggesting that Wall Street feels earnings growth will catch up quickly.

Technically, the stock appears to be cooling after a huge run. 

It is trading at 8.71% below its 10-day moving average and 1.44% below its 50-day, but still 22.42% above its 100-day and 72.10% above its 200-day, which suggests that the long-term uptrend is intact. 

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