On July 2, Western Digital fell 3.51% in pre-market trading, trading at approximately $578.08/share, with turnover of $8.076 million. The decline reflects continued broad-based weakness across the storage chip sector.
On the news front, the storage chip sector extended its collective pullback, with peers SanDisk down 3.55% and Seagate Technology down 2.32%, indicating clear sector-wide pressure. Additionally, reports emerged that Meta plans to sell surplus AI computing resources, triggering a market reassessment of AI computing supply dynamics and downstream demand across the related supply chain, further weighing on storage stocks.
The pullback follows an extraordinary rally in Q2, during which the storage chip and hardware supply chain index surged approximately 160%, pushing valuations to elevated levels. Season-end position adjustments and concentrated profit-taking from short-term funds have intensified rotational selling pressure. Market analysis suggests the current decline represents a normal technical correction after AI-driven storage demand expectations lifted sector valuations to stretched levels. Notably, institutional options activity earlier this week showed a $1.28 million deep out-of-the-money put sale, signaling that some institutional players maintain a moderately bullish medium-term outlook despite near-term weakness.
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