Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU - Get Free Report) updated its third quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.470-1.670 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 1.520. The company issued revenue guidance of $8.6 billion-$9.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $8.5 billion. Micron Technology also updated its Q3 guidance to 1.47-1.67 EPS.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Several equities research analysts have recently commented on the stock. The Goldman Sachs Group reduced their target price on shares of Micron Technology from $145.00 to $128.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, December 19th. UBS Group boosted their target price on shares of Micron Technology from $125.00 to $130.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research note on Monday, March 17th. Morgan Stanley boosted their target price on shares of Micron Technology from $91.00 to $112.00 and gave the company an "equal weight" rating in a research note on Friday. Wedbush restated an "outperform" rating and issued a $125.00 target price on shares of Micron Technology in a research note on Monday, March 17th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reduced their price target on shares of Micron Technology from $145.00 to $135.00 and set an "overweight" rating on the stock in a research report on Friday. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating, twenty-one have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $132.63.
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Micron Technology Trading Down 8.0 %
Shares of MU stock traded down $8.28 on Friday, reaching $94.72. The company had a trading volume of 63,123,228 shares, compared to its average volume of 22,501,008. The company has a current ratio of 2.72, a quick ratio of 1.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28. The stock has a market cap of $105.53 billion, a PE ratio of 27.30 and a beta of 1.23. The company has a 50-day moving average of $96.82 and a 200-day moving average of $98.28. Micron Technology has a 12 month low of $83.54 and a 12 month high of $157.54.
Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 20th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.56 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.43 by $0.13. The company had revenue of $8.05 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $7.93 billion. Micron Technology had a return on equity of 8.32% and a net margin of 13.34%. Micron Technology's revenue was up 38.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.42 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that Micron Technology will post 6.08 earnings per share for the current year.
Micron Technology Announces Dividend
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 15th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 31st will be paid a $0.115 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 31st. This represents a $0.46 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.49%. Micron Technology's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 11.03%.
Insider Buying and Selling
In related news, Director Mary Pat Mccarthy sold 2,404 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, March 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $92.93, for a total transaction of $223,403.72. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 27,358 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $2,542,378.94. This represents a 8.08 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. 0.30% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Institutional Trading of Micron Technology
An institutional investor recently raised its position in Micron Technology stock. Brighton Jones LLC increased its holdings in shares of Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU - Free Report) by 18.3% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 6,318 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock after purchasing an additional 976 shares during the quarter. Brighton Jones LLC's holdings in Micron Technology were worth $532,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC. 80.84% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
Micron Technology Company Profile
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Micron Technology, Inc designs, develops, manufactures, and sells memory and storage products worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Compute and Networking Business Unit, Mobile Business Unit, Embedded Business Unit, and Storage Business Unit. It provides memory and storage technologies comprising dynamic random access memory semiconductor devices with low latency that provide high-speed data retrieval; non-volatile and re-writeable semiconductor storage devices; and non-volatile re-writable semiconductor memory devices that provide fast read speeds under the Micron and Crucial brands, as well as through private labels.
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