On August 18, Seagate Technology PLC fell 6.01% in regular trading, trading at $939.675/share, with turnover of $246 million. The decline came amid a sector-wide pullback in storage stocks as short-term profit-taking pressure emerged following a sharp multi-day rally.

On the news front, the storage sector experienced broad selling despite fundamentally positive data. TrendForce reported that Q2 AI server procurement remained robust, with Enterprise SSD demand particularly strong, driving NAND Flash supply shortages and significant ASP increases. The top five NAND Flash manufacturers posted combined revenue of $68.87 billion, up 77% quarter-over-quarter. However, the sector had surged aggressively in prior sessions — SanDisk rallied approximately 35% over five trading days and Seagate itself gained over 7% in a single session — prompting investors to lock in gains.

Within the Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals sector, SanDisk fell 4.55%, Western Digital fell 3.87%, Dell Technologies fell 2.84%, Super Micro Computer fell 1.46%, while Apple rose 0.66%.

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