In today’s recent session, 3.93 million shares of the Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) have been traded, and its beta is 1.15. Most recently the company’s share price was $102.35, and it changed around -$0.47 or -0.46% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $114.02B. MU at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $157.54, offering almost -53.92% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $76.96, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 24.81% since then. We note from Micron Technology Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 16.91 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 21.30 million.

Micron Technology Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.47. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 40 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 9 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 3 recommended MU as a Hold, whereas 27 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight.

Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) trade information

Instantly MU has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.46% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 105.00 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 2.52%. The company’s shares are currently up 19.93% year-to-date, but still up 2.51% over the last five days. On the other hand, Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) is -8.53% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 34.34 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.07 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $142.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 28.18% from its current value. Analyst projections state that MU is forecast to be at a low of $57 and a high of $185.

Micron Technology Inc (MU) estimates and forecasts

Micron Technology Inc share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have fallen -24.22 percent over the past six months and at a 566.15% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 16.90%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -33.89%. Micron Technology Inc earnings are expected to increase by 591.76% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 17.10% per year for the next five years.

MU Dividends

Micron Technology Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in January. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 0.45 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.46. It is important to note, however, that the 0.45% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 0.33 per year.

Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.29% of Micron Technology Inc shares, and 80.84% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 81.08%. Micron Technology Inc stock is held by 2394.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 8.8246% of the shares, which is about 97.69 million shares worth $12.85 billion.

BLACKROCK INC., with 8.2943% or 91.82 million shares worth $12.08 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.