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The company that spent years playing catch-up in HBM may finally be ready to challenge SK Hynix for the top spot. And its latest earnings suggest the turnaround is already underway.
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OUR ANALYST JUST BOUGHT A KOREAN STOCK 🇰🇷
The KOSPI (South Korea's main stock index) has been getting absolutely smoked recently.
Amid the turmoil, South Korean retail investors are turning to U.S. stocks.
Melvin (our lead analyst at Milk Road PRO) watched all of that happen and used his payday to buy Samsung anyway.
Here’s his thesis:
The narrative on Samsung in the HBM market has completely flipped in the last few months.
The old story was that Samsung always plays catch-up to SK Hynix.
But that story is now wrong:
- Samsung shipped HBM4 to NVIDIA first (ahead of SK Hynix & Micron).
- Management said on the Q2 call they expect Samsung's HBM market share to catch up to their overall DRAM share by the second half of this year.
- UBS is calling for Samsung to actually take the HBM lead outright by 2027.
Controlling over 38% of the DRAM market, Samsung would be a great stock to hold if they begin to dominate the HBM market as well.
Then their earnings dropped and it’s kinda ridiculous.
Their operating profit jumped 1,800% year over year.
One Thousand. Eight Hundred. Percent. Absolutely incredible.
And the forward guidance suggests this figure will increase further:
- Samsung is guiding HBM4 revenue to more than triple next quarter.
- Management also said the supply shortage gets worse in 2027.
- So, pricing power is actually increasing heading into 2027.
So essentially, you’ve got:
- A dominant position in DRAM.
- Rapidly growing HBM4 revenue.
- And operating profits already exploding.
This is why Melvin has bought Samsung heading into 2027.
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