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Wall Street just turned the volume up
SanDisk got a fresh mic-drop moment on Monday after Bank of America raised its price target to $2,100 from $1,550 and reiterated a Buy rating. That’s a hefty reset, and it comes with a pretty bullish argument: NAND memory is still in a supply squeeze, and SanDisk’s new contract structure is making the business look a lot less like a roller coaster.
Why the bulls are getting louder
BofA’s big idea here is that SanDisk isn’t just riding a random price spike. The bank says the company’s “new business models” lock in supply with multi-year deals, fixed pricing upfront, and then variable pricing later on. Translation: customers get certainty, and SanDisk gets something resembling a financial seatbelt.
A few details that matter:
- BofA says SanDisk has already signed over a third of fiscal 2027 revenue through these deals.
- The five contracts in place reportedly include more than $11 billion in financial guarantees.
- The three signed in the fiscal third quarter alone provide minimum contractual revenue of $42 billion.
That’s not exactly the kind of setup you’d expect from a sleepy chip company. It’s more like a memory maker trying on the clothes of a subscription business.
The part investors should actually care about
The real kicker is the supply/demand backdrop. BofA thinks NAND supply won’t materially loosen until 2028 or 2029 at the earliest, which gives SanDisk room to keep prices elevated for a while. The bank also believes SanDisk has enough flexibility to cut production if demand cools off — a nice upgrade from the old days when the company had to keep the factories humming just to generate cash.
That means the bull case isn’t just “memory prices are up.” It’s “memory prices are up, contracts are tighter, and the downside might not be nearly as ugly as it used to be.”
Big picture
SanDisk’s stock is already in beast mode, but this note tells you why some analysts think the move still isn’t finished. If the contract math holds and supply stays tight, SanDisk could keep looking less like a commodity cyclical and more like a high-margin compounder with silicon dust on its shoes.