The Direxion Daily MU Bull 2X Shares (MUU) experienced a significant 24-hour plunge of 5.28% during the night session on Tuesday. The leveraged exchange-traded fund, which seeks daily investment results of 200% of the performance of Micron Technology, Inc., moved sharply lower.
The decline in MUU was driven by a substantial drop in its underlying stock, Micron Technology. The US chip storage sector fell sharply during intraday trading after JPMorgan stated that market preference for memory chips had gone too far. The financial institution issued a research report reinstating NVIDIA as its top pick in the semiconductor sector, replacing its previous top pick, Micron Technology.
Analyst Joseph Moore noted in the report that while industry conditions for both memory chips and NVIDIA's business remain exceptionally strong, the market's current valuation favors memory chips as having higher investment value due to their perceived more resilient earnings revision potential. However, JPMorgan's shift in preference contributed to the negative sentiment toward Micron and related securities like the MUU ETF.
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