Seagate Technology PLC's stock experienced a significant pre-market plunge of 5.18%, as the memory and storage sector came under broad selling pressure.
The decline follows a strong rally in the sector driven by Micron Technology's blockbuster quarterly results. However, the sector failed to sustain those gains, with investors engaging in profit-taking amid mounting concerns over AI sector valuation repricing and skepticism toward major cloud providers' debt-funded investments in artificial intelligence.
Adding to the negative sentiment, a report suggesting that OpenAI might delay its initial public offering until 2027 weighed on the broader semiconductor sector, triggering synchronized selling across chip and memory stocks during the pre-market session.
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