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Another fund piles in
Asset Management One Co. Ltd. boosted its Lam Research position by 9.4% in Q4, scooping up 56,131 more shares and lifting its total to 654,768 shares worth about $114.8 million. That’s not exactly couch-cushion money, and it adds another institutional stamp of approval for the semiconductor equipment name.
Why your inner stock detective should care
Lam has been one of those “boring until it’s not” companies — the kind that sells the picks and shovels for the AI gold rush. MarketBeat says the stock has been riding strong fundamentals, with Q3 revenue up 22.1% year over year and guidance for $1.25 to $1.45 in EPS. In plain English: the chip capex machine is still humming.
But the plot twist is insider selling
Here’s the spicy part: while institutions keep loading up, insiders have been trimming. Lam’s CFO sold 50,057 shares in early March, and insiders sold 130,886 shares over the last quarter. That doesn’t automatically mean doom — insiders sell for all kinds of reasons — but it does give the stock a little “who’s really bullish here?” energy.
Big picture: institutions are still treating Lam like a long-term AI infrastructure play, but the mixed signals from insider sales mean you probably don’t want to confuse momentum with certainty.