Why Micron Stock Is Sinking Today

Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) stock is falling in Thursday's trading. The memory-chip company's share price was down 3.9% as of 3:15 p.m. ET, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Shares had been down as much as 7.2% earlier in the daily session.

Micron stock is falling in conjunction with the release of two price-target cuts from analysts. The company's share price is now down roughly 43% from the high that it reached earlier this year.

Raymond James published a mixed note on Micron before the market opened this morning. While the firm maintained an outperform rating on the stock, it lowered its one-year price target from $160 per share to $125 per share. The lead analyst on the stock cited recent comments from company management pointing to lower sales volume growth in its non-high-bandwidth-memory (HBM) DRAM (dynamic random access memory) and NAND markets as a reason for the target cut.

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