On May 19, SanDisk (SNDK) fell 3.25% in pre-market trading, trading at $1,290.0 USD/share, with trading volume of approximately $85.69 million. The decline extends a multi-session pattern of selling pressure across the storage chip sector.
On the news front, the broader storage sector has faced sustained downward pressure as investors engage in profit-taking following SanDisk's extraordinary rally of over 5,000% since early April last year. Market concerns over a prolonged US-Iran conflict and resurgent inflation have driven Treasury yields sharply higher, weighing heavily on high-valuation technology names including storage stocks. Peers including Seagate Technology, Western Digital, and Micron Technology have also declined in tandem. Additionally, short seller Citron publicly disclosed a short position earlier this year, arguing the storage boom is a supply-side illusion with planned capacity already double the 2018 industry peak. Despite analysts such as Citi raising their target price to $2,025 and maintaining a buy rating, stretched valuations and insider selling disclosures continue to fuel near-term selling pressure.
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