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1 OCT 2026 · More earnings analysis: https://betafinch.com
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WELCOME TO BETA FINCH, your AI-powered earnings breakdown.
ALEX: Welcome to Beta Finch, your AI-powered earnings breakdown, where we take the numbers and the noise from the latest earnings calls and turn them into something you can actually use. I'm Alex, joined as always by Jordan.
JORDAN: Hey everyone. And we've got a big one today.
ALEX: Before we get into it — this podcast is AI-generated content for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing we discuss should be considered investment advice. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions.
JORDAN: With that out of the way, let's talk Micron. Fiscal Q4 2026, and Alex, I don't think "exceptional" even covers it.
ALEX: It really doesn't. Let's start with the full-year picture because it sets the stage. Fiscal 2026 revenue came in at $133.2 billion, up 256% year-over-year. Data center revenue alone was up fourfold. And get this — Micron's DRAM revenue by itself topped $100 billion for the year.
JORDAN: $100 billion from one product category. That's a company-sized number for most chipmakers.
ALEX: Right. And the margins tell the same story. Gross margin expanded to 81.1% for the year, a 40-point jump from fiscal 2025. EPS was up 811% to $75.52.
JORDAN: Eight hundred and eleven percent. Let's zoom into the quarter itself, because Q4 alone was a record-breaker. $54.2 billion in revenue, up 31% sequentially, up 379% year-over-year. That's their sixth straight quarterly revenue record.
ALEX: DRAM revenue hit $39.8 billion, 73% of total revenue, with prices up in the high teens percentage range. NAND revenue was $14.1 billion, up 526% year-over-year, with prices up around 30%. Consolidated gross margin for the quarter: 87%.
JORDAN: And every single business unit posted a record. Cloud Memory at $16.3 billion, Core Data Center at $18 billion with 90% gross margins — 90%, Alex — Mobile and Client at $13.1 billion, and Automotive and Embedded at $6.8 billion. There's genuinely no weak link here.
ALEX: So the obvious question is: what happens next? And CEO Sanjay Mehrotra didn't hedge at all. He said fiscal 2026 was outstanding, but fiscal 2027 is expected to be even better.
JORDAN: That's a bold thing to say after a year like that. But the reasoning is interesting — it's not just "AI demand is strong," it's that supply is structurally behind. Micron says they don't have line of sight to when memory supply and demand even return to balance. For calendar 2027 and 2028, both DRAM and NAND are expected to stay supply-constrained.
ALEX: And they're backing that up with something new to this cycle — strategic customer agreements, or SCAs. These are multi-year take-or-pay contracts. Micron now has 26 of them signed, representing over 35% of revenue through 2030, with customer cash deposits now at $32 billion.
JORDAN: That's the part I find most interesting, honestly. More than 75% of Micron's 2027 output is already committed — between SCA and non-SCA customers. That's a company that's basically pre-sold most of next year before it even starts.
ALEX: It also explains the CapEx story. Mark Murphy, the CFO, said they're increasing fiscal 2027 CapEx versus prior plans — first-half CapEx alone around $25 billion, with more in the back half. But the key detail is the mix: a lot of this is construction spending, not equipment, aimed at getting clean room space ready for late 2028 and beyond.
JORDAN: Which tells you this isn't a short-term chase of today's prices — they're building for a multi-year runway. On HBM specifically, Sanjay noted they've completed agreements for the vast majority of 2027 HBM bit supply, with significant price increases that are narrowing the margin gap versus conventional DRAM.
ALEX: Let's talk guidance, because it's just as striking. Fiscal Q1 revenue guide is $61.5 billion, plu This episode includes AI-generated content.
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4 JUL 2026 · More earnings analysis: https://betafinch.com
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ALEX: Welcome to Beta Finch, your AI-powered earnings breakdown. Today we're digging into Micron Technology's fiscal Q3 2026 results, and folks, this is one of those quarters where the numbers almost don't sound real. Before we get into it, quick reminder: this podcast is AI-generated content for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing we discuss should be considered investment advice. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions.
JORDAN: Yeah, "don't sound real" is right. Let's just start with the top line — $41.5 billion in revenue. That's up 74% sequentially and 346% year-over-year.
ALEX: Year over year! Not sequentially — year over year revenue more than quadrupled. And it's their fifth straight record quarter, with the single largest sequential dollar jump in company history, $17.6 billion.
JORDAN: DRAM did most of the heavy lifting — $31.3 billion, up 67% sequentially, three quarters of total revenue. But NAND actually grew even faster percentage-wise, up 99% sequentially to $9.9 billion. Prices in NAND jumped mid-80s percent.
ALEX: And the profitability is what really jumps out to me. Gross margin hit 84.9%, up 10 points in a single quarter. Operating margin over 81%. EPS came in at $25.11, more than doubling sequentially.
JORDAN: These aren't small beats over guidance either — Sanjay Mehrotra said revenue, gross margin, and EPS all exceeded the high end of guidance. And the data center number is the real story underneath all this — data center revenue exceeded $25 billion in the quarter, annualizing above $100 billion. Data center SSDs alone more than doubled sequentially to over $5 billion.
ALEX: So let's talk about the big strategic news, because this is arguably bigger than the quarterly numbers themselves — these Strategic Customer Agreements, or SCAs. Micron now has 16 of them signed.
JORDAN: This is the part I think investors are going to spend the next few quarters trying to fully digest. These are take-or-pay, multi-year deals — five years for most, three years for automotive — running roughly calendar 2026 through 2030. They cover about 20% of Micron's DRAM volume and a third of NAND volume over that period.
ALEX: And the pricing structure is interesting. The largest agreements have a ceiling tied to current, very elevated prices, and a floor — but Sanjay was emphatic that even at that floor price, gross margins would be "well above" any peak margin Micron has ever hit in a past cycle.
JORDAN: That's the headline for me. Historically Micron's margins have been this brutal boom-bust cycle — peaks in the low 60s percent gross margin, then crashing during downturns. If the floor on these new contracts is above the old ceiling, that's a structurally different business.
ALEX: Fourteen of the sixteen SCAs represent about $100 billion in cumulative minimum revenue over their terms — that's the RPO, remaining performance obligation, a new disclosure they're rolling out this quarter under ASC 606.
JORDAN: And this is where the Q&A got really interesting. Analysts pushed hard on what that $100 billion actually represents. Tim Arcuri from UBS did the math — $100 billion over roughly five years is about $20 billion a year, which is well below Micron's current $40-plus billion quarterly run rate.
ALEX: Right, and Sanjay's response was basically: don't read too much into that number, it's a conservative floor. He said about 20% of DRAM and 30% of NAND volume is covered, translating to roughly 25% of revenue over the agreement term — and actual revenue is expected to run "much higher" than the RPO minimum.
JORDAN: Mark Murphy also fielded some good detective work from Morgan Stanley's Joe Moore on the cash deposits — Micron's getting about $22 billion in deposits and financial commitments tied to these deals, $18 billion of that i This episode includes AI-generated content.
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21 MAR 2026 · **Beta Finch Podcast Script: Micron Technology Q2 2026 Earnings**
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**ALEX:** Welcome to Beta Finch, your AI-powered earnings breakdown where we cut through the noise to bring you the market's biggest stories. I'm Alex.
**JORDAN:** And I'm Jordan. Today we're diving into Micron Technology's absolutely explosive Q2 2026 earnings that dropped yesterday. And folks, when I say explosive, I mean it – we're talking about numbers that are rewriting the record books.
**ALEX:** Before we jump in, a quick reminder that this podcast is AI-generated content for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing we discuss should be considered investment advice. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions.
**JORDAN:** Now let's talk about these mind-blowing numbers. Alex, where do we even start?
**ALEX:** I mean, Jordan, I've covered a lot of earnings calls, but this one... Micron just posted quarterly revenue of $23.9 billion – that's up 196% year-over-year and 75% sequentially. To put that in perspective, their Q3 guidance alone exceeds the full-year revenue of every year in the company's history through 2024.
**JORDAN:** That's insane! And the margins are what really caught my eye. They're guiding for 81% gross margin in Q3. Eighty-one percent! I had to double-check that number. For context, in previous memory cycles, Micron's peak margins were in the low 60s. We're in completely uncharted territory here.
**ALEX:** Absolutely. And CEO Sanjay Mehrotra was pretty clear about what's driving this – it's all about AI. He said something that really stuck with me: "Memory makes AI smarter and more capable, enabling longer context windows, deeper reasoning chains, and multi-agent orchestration." Essentially, as AI gets more sophisticated, it becomes more memory-hungry.
**JORDAN:** Right, and what's fascinating is the supply constraint story. They're only able to fulfill 50% to two-thirds of their key customers' demand. Think about that – in a world where everyone is scrambling for AI chips, the memory bottleneck is so severe that even their biggest customers can't get what they need.
**ALEX:** Speaking of customers, let's talk about the elephant in the room – their new Strategic Customer Agreements or SCAs. They just signed their first five-year SCA, which is a big departure from their traditional one-year agreements.
**JORDAN:** Yeah, this is huge strategically. During the Q&A, analysts kept pushing for details, but Mehrotra was pretty tight-lipped about specifics due to confidentiality. What we do know is these are multi-year agreements with "specific commitments" from both sides, designed to give Micron better visibility and customers more supply assurance.
**ALEX:** And it makes sense why customers would want this. If you're NVIDIA or Microsoft planning your AI infrastructure years out, the last thing you want is to be constrained by memory availability. These SCAs essentially lock in supply, even if it means paying premium prices.
**JORDAN:** Let's talk about the HBM story because this is where things get really interesting. They're now shipping HBM4 36GB modules and have already sampled their HBM4 16-Hi product with 48GB capacity – that's a 33% increase per module. And get this – they're already working on HBM4E for 2027.
**ALEX:** The HBM ramp is incredible. Remember, high-bandwidth memory is the specialized, expensive memory that goes directly on AI accelerators. It's like the premium gasoline of the memory world, and demand is through the roof. They mentioned that AI server demand alone is driving DRAM and NAND data center bits to exceed 50% of industry TAM for the first time.
**JORDAN:** But here's what I found most interesting from the call – they're not just betting on data center AI. Mehrotra talked about on-device AI driving memory content growth everywhere. PCs with agentic AI need at least 32GB of memory, double the current average. And smartphon This episode includes AI-generated content.
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AI-powered earnings call analysis for Micron Technology (MU). Two AI hosts break down quarterly results, key metrics, and market implications in digestible podcast episodes.
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