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Tomorrow after the close on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, Micron (MU) reports fiscal Q3 2026 and hosts its call at 2:30 p.m. Mountain. I double-checked that timing on Micron IR, not a third-party calendar.

Also, a quick correction: the revenue and EPS figures in this draft were way too high by an order of magnitude. Micron is having a monster cycle, but it is not doing $30B plus revenue in a quarter.

So what matters now is less “did they beat by a few percent” and more what they say about HBM allocation into calendar 2027, how quickly supply is loosening, and whether Q4 guidance implies the tightness is still getting tighter.

Analyst targets (spot-check)

I’m not going to pretend I can verify every single firm and dollar target in your old list in one pass, because targets move weekly. But I did verify one big one that’s been driving chatter: Cantor Fitzgerald (C.J. Muse) has a $1,500 target on MU dated June 8, 2026.

What the quarter should show (grounded)

The clean anchor is Micron’s last official update: in fiscal Q2 2026 (ended February 26, 2026), Micron delivered $23.86B revenue and non-GAAP EPS of $12.20, with DRAM revenue of $18.8B and NAND revenue of $5.0B.

Into this Q3 report, the freshest consensus I found (published today, June 23) is clustering around mid-$35B revenue and gross margin around the low-80% area. That is the important part: expectations have kept drifting up into the call.

Here’s where I’m at: when gross margin expectations are north of 80%, the market is basically asking one thing. “Is the supply squeeze still the main character?” If the answer is yes, valuation arguments get weird, fast.

Why the stock is here

Micron’s “new Micron” case has been tied to AI memory scarcity and long-duration supply agreements. Reuters reported that on May 26, 2026, MU shares jumped after UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri hiked his price target to $1,625, pushing Micron close to (and in some reports briefly over) the $1T market cap line.

And management has been blunt about supply. In prior commentary covered broadly in the tech press, Mehrotra described demand running ahead of available supply and said Micron could only meet about half to two-thirds of demand in the near term, with constraints expected to stay tight beyond calendar 2026.

Slight tangent, but it matters: people talk about HBM like it’s only a data center SKU. In reality, the whole stack shifts when HBM eats packaging capacity and capital allocation. You end up with second-order effects in “boring” DRAM and NAND, too. That is why the call matters more than the income statement.

The numbers in context (updated)

• Fiscal Q2 2026 revenue: $23.86B (vs. $13.64B prior quarter; $8.05B year-ago quarter)
• Fiscal Q2 2026 non-GAAP EPS: $12.20
• Fiscal Q2 DRAM revenue: $18.8B (+207% YoY; ~79% of total revenue)
• Fiscal Q2 NAND revenue: $5.0B (+169% YoY; ~21% of total revenue)
• Into Q3 (street expectation snapshot): revenue roughly mid-$35B and gross margin roughly low-80% range (varies by source)

Bull / base / bear

Bull: Management signals HBM allocation stays effectively sold out into 2027, with pricing staying firm and incremental supply not arriving fast enough to cool margins. The market decides this is less “memory cycle” and more “strategic bottleneck,” and it keeps paying up for duration.

Base: Q3 comes in strong, Q4 guidance is solid but not shockingly higher, and the stock mostly reacts to the tone on supply expansion and customer commitments. The stock can still go up in this version, just not in a straight line.

Bear: Any hint that supply is catching up faster than demand, or that customer ordering is turning into “double ordering,” will hit hard. When the market is already expecting 80% plus gross margins, disappointment does not need to be dramatic to matter.

Market expectations for the move

Options pricing is still calling for a big reaction. One widely followed options tracker shows an implied move around 14% into the June 24 report (near-dated weekly expirations). Different sources will give you different numbers, but the takeaway is consistent: the market is not expecting a quiet night.

What to watch tomorrow

• HBM allocation language for calendar 2027 (not just “demand is strong,” but the degree of constraint)
• Any specificity on packaging capacity and timing
• Whether DRAM and NAND tightness is still broadening beyond AI
• Q4 revenue and margin guidance relative to the now-elevated consensus

Bottom line

This isn’t a “beat or miss” event as much as a credibility test on the supply outlook. If Mehrotra effectively says, “We are still short product well past calendar 2026,” the valuation debate stays alive, even if the quarter itself is merely great instead of insane.

Worth a look: if you only have time for one thing tomorrow, read the first few minutes of the prepared remarks and then jump straight to Q&A. That’s where the real tells usually slip out.