SKHY SK hynix Inc.

Investors wanted more after the stock doubled this year.

Micron traded at $966.78 as selling hit memory stocks, pulling SK Hynix down roughly 3% ahead of Nvidia's earnings.

Tech stocks dragged on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq in early trading.

Micron stock was slipping early Monday as another Chinese memory-chip market prepares for an initial public offering.

The chipmaker remains dominant for now, but an onslaught of companies is encroaching on its territory.

When the US and Israel launched their aerial assault on Iran on the last Saturday of February, the world’s main oil markets were closed. The price of crude kept moving anyway.

Stock futures pointed lower Monday after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite snapped three-week winning streaks, with semiconductor stocks among the biggest decliners.

Samsung stock sank 8.7% after a record shareholder return plan disappointed investors, dragging the KOSPI index lower.

Oil prices fell on Monday as investors braced for details of a US plan to isolate the Iranian economy that President Donald Trump billed as the "most crushing" financial operation ever against Tehran.US Vice President JD Vance acknowledged the plan was a "delicate dance" because Iran will "try to apply economic pressure to us".

Shares of Samsung Electronics fell over 8% in early trade on Monday after the company’s record $79 billion shareholder-return plan disappointed investors who had expected a larger share of ‌Samsung’s AI-fueled cash windfalls and greater clarity on share buybacks. Samsung and rival SK Hynix last week announced ‌major shareholder return plans, following mounting pressure from investors to return some of the gains from their record-breaking profits as the AI boom ​drives demand for chips. Samsung said on Friday this year's shareholder returns would be 90 trillion won to 110 trillion won ($65 billion to $80 billion), including 30 trillion won in cash dividends in the third quarter.

History says the market will eventually collapse, but this time does look different.

The memory giant is retiring roughly one share in every 30 -- and it says its shareholder-return target is moving from a ceiling to a floor.

The AI boom is quietly sending a surge of inflation through every corner of the tech industry, and Nvidia's latest move suggests the pressure is only getting started.

Nvidia customers reportedly face AI server price hikes above 15% next year as DRAM costs surge ahead of Wednesday's earnings.

Investing.com -- Rising memory chip costs are pushing up the price of servers that use Nvidia Corp’s artificial intelligence chips, with some of the chipmaker’s biggest customers facing increases of more than 15%, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.

SK hynix is doubling down on shareholder value as AI-fueled memory demand strengthens its outlook and market positioning.

SK hynix (NasdaqGS:SKHY) is back in focus after the company approved a 40 trillion won share repurchase and cancellation program, one of the largest shareholder return plans announced by a South Korean company. See our latest analysis for SK hynix. At a latest share price of $163.41, SK hynix has seen a modest 1-day share price return of 0.20%, while the 7-day, 30-day, and year-to-date share price returns have each trended slightly lower. This suggests that recent momentum has softened...

Stocks fell this week as Treasury bond buybacks, oil prices, and Walmart earnings weighed on markets, while Bitcoin rallied; MarketBeat analysts cover Moderna, NVIDIA, Meta, RTX, and more.

There's a major ETF focused on AI memory stocks, but it has some drawbacks.

Micron's CEO just confirmed a specific date when a government-imposed restriction on buybacks expires, and with competitors already returning tens of billions to shareholders, what happens next on that calendar day could reshape how investors value the stock entirely.

The Korean company’s plan to buy back as much as $78.88 billion of shares comes as chip makers reap the rewards of the artificial-intelligence boom.

After ripping through the first half of the year, memory stocks are struggling to regain momentum as growing concerns about the state of the artificial intelligence trade overshadow their strong fundamental backdrop.

Nvidia Corp. is in early discussions with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about possible collaborations, including a technical partnership, an investment or perhaps even an acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter.

South Korea plans to create a new fund to channel tax windfalls from the country's semiconductor boom into supporting ‌younger generations and invest in future growth industries such as artificial ‌intelligence, the budget ministry said on Friday. The proposed "Future Response Fund" would finance programmes aimed at helping ​young people find jobs, buy homes and start families, while also supporting investments in AI, regional development and talent development, according to a ministry press release. The fund would be financed mainly by tax revenue exceeding a benchmark based on the average ‌growth in domestic tax ⁠receipts over the past decade.

Samsung Electronics will hold a board meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss a new shareholder ‌return package, a person familiar with the matter said, after media reports ‌put the plan's worth at more than $70 billion. Samsung, which like rival SK Hynix, has seen earnings soar as ​the AI boom creates insatiable demand for chips, is expected to discuss special dividends as well as share buybacks and cancellations. It is set to announce a new shareholder return package later this month worth more than 100 trillion won ($72 billion), South Korea's MoneyToday reported.

Samsung Electronics expects its shareholder returns for this year could reach up to 110 trillion won ($79.54 ‌billion), including 30 trillion won in cash dividends in the third quarter, it said ‌on Friday. The 110 trillion won would be over five times the size of the previous high in shareholder returns of ​20.3 trillion won in 2020. Like rival SK Hynix, Samsung has come under pressure from shareholders to return some of the gains from their record-breaking profits as the AI boom drives demand for chips.

South Korea's SK Hynix is considering building ‌a memory chip plant in ‌Japan's Miyagi prefecture and could invest tens ​of trillions of won in the project, the Hankyoreh newspaper reported on Friday, citing industry sources. The newspaper ‌said SK Hynix ⁠is pursuing the investment in northeastern Japan as it ⁠looks to expand production capacity amid growing global demand for memory ​chips. It said ​SK Group ​Chairman Chey Tae-won ‌recently visited the area, which is one of Japan's designated semiconductor industry hubs.

The Roundhill Memory ETF has roughly doubled since April, making it one of the fastest-gaining thematic funds in recent memory. Before you chase that return, there is a sizing question that could protect your retirement or quietly wreck it.

DRAM bundles the entire memory chip boom into one ticker, and that same design feature is quietly loading investors with a risk most people never think to check before buying in.

While the rest of the tech sector bleeds red Thursday, memory stocks are defying gravity, and the catalyst powering the biggest winner has nothing to do with AI chips.

A massive research push could sharpen Micron's competitive edge

Anthropic PBC expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX’s record-setting initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, as preparations for the artificial intelligence firm’s debut pick up speed.

Micron unveils Micron Research Labs, a new research institution. Its stock has soared more than 700% over the last year, and was up again Thursday.

The potential payout could reshape Samsung's capital allocation story

It’s virtually impossible for U.S. investors to buy into Chinese IPOs, though some U.S. ETFs own shares.

Micron rivals are buying back stock at a rapid clip but the American company will have to wait to return capital to shareholders.

STOCKS The effects of Scott Bessent’s intervention in bond markets are proving short-lived: Yields are on the rise again. The Treasury secretary’s move to ratchet up bond repurchases had temporarily cooled yields, which have been pushed higher by swelling fiscal deficits and rampant borrowing by tech companies.

Shares jumped more than 10% on the report.

Micron Technology said on Thursday it plans to spend $10 billion on its newly ‌established research lab at Boise, Idaho, over the ‌next decade to advance memory technologies, develop compute systems and support future ​chip manufacturing. Large memory chipmakers such as Micron, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have been benefiting from a surge in demand from the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure. • The latest investment builds on the more than $250 billion that Micron had separately committed to ​manufacturing and ​R&D across the United States.

Micron rivals are buying back stock at a rapid clip but the American company will have to wait to return capital to shareholders.

According to TheFly, JPMorgan analyst Jay Kwon expects the buyback to boost shareholder returns over the next three months.

SK Hynix Stock Roars Back After 10% Rout With $28.6 Billion Buyback

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Investors looking to buy one of these two AI stocks for their portfolios have an easy choice to make.

SK Hynix's massive buyback and strong AI-driven memory demand could provide a fresh catalyst for the stock and ETFs with exposure to the chipmaker.

The agreement also includes a 6.3% wage increase and a clause allowing the company to defer wages if it posts a loss

The South Korean chipmaker plans to spend 50% of its free cash flow on the programme, which would include a special dividend

SK Hynix followed the same post-IPO crash pattern as SpaceX and Cerebras, but what happened to its fundamentals during that stumble sets it apart from every other stock in the trillion-dollar club.

Shares of Meta Platforms Inc. have been under pressure all year due to questions about its spending on artificial intelligence. But a trial accusing its social media platforms of targeting children goes beyond that, raising existential questions about the future of its core business.

Red-hot chip maker SK Hynix’s announcement that it would conduct South Korea’s largest-ever buyback is a head-scratcher. Even after a recent slump, the stock was up 470% from a year earlier. Management had ample financial firepower to buy during that ascent and didn’t.