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Matt Phillips7/9/25

BofA ups Robinhood target on Q2 retail dip-buying

Robinhood Markets rose following a price target and estimate hike from Bank of America analysts.

(Robinhood Markets Inc. is the parent company of Sherwood Media, an independently operated media company subject to certain legal and regulatory restrictions. I own Robinhood stock as part of my compensation.)

The bank’s analysts covering the brokerage industry lifted their price target on the shares to $112 from $95 and raised their estimates on equity and options trading at the retail-focused brokerage, citing what they found to be a surprisingly persistent amount of “dip-buying” from retail traders following the worst of April’s tariff-related sell-off and subsequent bounce back.

“The pullback in retail equity trading following April’s spike in activity was more modest than anticipated,” they wrote.

BofA’s price target on Robinhood, which analysts rate a “buy,” implies a roughly 20% upside to where shares traded Wednesday. But they say they’re less bullish on the stock after its significant run-up, as it rose 120% over the last three months.

It’s the latest in a mini flurry of price target adjustments from analysts covering the shares — see Citi earlier this week — whose outlook for the stock has been overtaken by the move in the share price.

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Needham hikes price target on Micron by 50% to $300 ahead of earnings on tight memory chip supplies

Needham analyst Quinn Bolton boosted his price target on Micron to $300 from $200 ahead of its Q1 fiscal 2026 results, scheduled to be released on Wednesday.

While there have been numerous media reports that try to pin down who gets what in different prominent AI supply chains, the simple story here is there’s effectively an oligopoly for dynamic random access memory chips (Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix), and these companies have pricing power because of limited supply and elevated AI-fueled demand.

“We believe industry supply/demand is far tighter than management expected on its F4Q25 (Aug) earnings call,” Bolton writes. “We expect industry supply will remain constrained throughout 2026 as Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix are all constrained by clean room space and can only rely on node transitions to increase bit shipments in the near term.”

In other words, these companies are so capacity-constrained that the only way to sell more memory is to sell better chips as they move to more advanced editions.

“We note management recently confirmed the company's HBM3E and HBM4 capacity is sold out for CY2026 and believe HBM continues to carry above corporate and DRAM average gross margin,” he writes.

Bolton also boosted his estimates for full year sales for Micron’s next two fiscal years by 8% and 14%, respectively, and adjusted earnings per share by 18% and 30%, respectively. Even so, all of these figures remain a little below consensus.

Wall Street analysts have been scrambling to right-size their views on Micron ahead of earnings. The average price target has gone up by a whopping 67% over the last three months, and the shares spent the vast majority of time from late October through last week trading above the consensus outlook.

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Pfizer gives 2026 guidance, with sales set to slow and EPS forecast below consensus

Pfizer edged higher in premarket trading after reaffirming its 2025 guidance and giving analysts a fresh steer on 2026.

The company said it expects 2026 annual adjusted earnings per share to hit between $2.80 and $3.00, lower than the $3.05 analysts polled by FactSet are currently pencilling in.

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Bitcoin-sensitive stocks hammered as crypto declines

Bitcoin-sensitive stocks tumbled Monday, enduring a much steeper drop than the keystone crypto asset itself, which was down nearly 4%, falling below $87,000, as of 12:20 p.m. ET.

Goldman Sachs’ themed basket of bitcoin-sensitive equities was down more than 8%. (It consists of companies tied to bitcoin, either through mining, digital payments, crypto investment, or blockchain technology.) It was one of the worst performers among Goldman’s thematically curated baskets of shares on Monday.

Among the basket’s constituents, miners Cipher Mining, CleanSpark, Hut 8, TeraWulf, and IREN were getting the worst of it.

At midday, the basket was on its way to its worst day since November 24, when bitcoin was also languishing below $90,000 and the broader tech sector was going through a brief downturn related to rising worries about durability of the AI boom.

Among the basket’s constituents, miners Cipher Mining, CleanSpark, Hut 8, TeraWulf, and IREN were getting the worst of it.

At midday, the basket was on its way to its worst day since November 24, when bitcoin was also languishing below $90,000 and the broader tech sector was going through a brief downturn related to rising worries about durability of the AI boom.

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