Super Micro and These Stocks Pop as Dell Drives AI Server Excitement -- Barrons.com

Dow Jones
May 29

By Adam Clark

Super Micro Computer and Hewlett Packard Enterprise were surging early on Friday. Earnings from artificial-intelligence server peer Dell Technologies have investors excited about what could come next for hardware stocks.

Super Micro shares were up 10% while HPE was rising 18% in the premarket.

Dell was soaring after it said quarterly revenue for its AI-optimized servers rose 757% from the prior year. Super Micro and HPE are the other big U.S.-listed players in the AI server market. HPE is set to report its own earnings on Monday.

"While customer pull-forward is clearly evident as customers are looking to secure future supply amid pricing volatility, [Dell] framed demand as broad-based and structurally supported across neoclouds and enterprise deployments, with agentic AI driving more use cases," wrote KeyBanc analyst Brandon Nispel in a research note.

The effect wasn't limited solely to server companies. HP -- which focuses on consumer-facing devices such as notebook computers -- was rising 5.6%. HP reported better-than-expected earnings on Wednesday but the initial market reaction was muted with investors noting concerns about the rising cost of memory components.

Write to Adam Clark at adam.clark@barrons.com

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