In the latest trading session, 9.63 million Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.16. With the company’s most recent per share price at $103.34 changing hands around $5.98 or 6.14% at last look, the market valuation stands at $115.14B. MU’s current price is a discount, trading about -52.45% off its 52-week high of $157.54. The share price had its 52-week low at $79.15, which suggests the last value was 23.41% up since then. When we look at Micron Technology Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 26.89 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 21.67 million.
Analysts gave the Micron Technology Inc (MU) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.57. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 32 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 5 recommended MU as a Hold, 27 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) trade information
Instantly MU is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 1.40%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 22.79%, with the 5-day performance at 1.40% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) is 5.19% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 33.9 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.09 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 130, meaning bulls need an upside of 20.51% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, MU’s forecast low is 57 with 165 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -59.67% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 44.84% for it to hit the projected low.
Micron Technology Inc (MU) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the Micron Technology Inc share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot -18.94% over the past 6 months, a 427.69% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 17.10%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -33.89%. The 2025 estimates are for Micron Technology Inc earnings to increase by 449.80%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 15.05% per year.
MU Dividends
Micron Technology Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in February. The 0.45% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.46. It is important to note, however, that the 0.45% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 0.33 per year.
Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.29% of Micron Technology Inc shares while 80.88% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 81.11%. There are 80.88% institutions holding the Micron Technology Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 8.8246% of the shares, roughly 97.69 million MU shares worth $12.85 billion.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.2943% or 91.82 million shares worth $12.08 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. With 35.17 shares estimated at $3.62 billion under it, the former controlled 3.16% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.61% of the shares, roughly 29.04 shares worth around $2.99 billion.
