Movement Alert|NetApp Rises 5.11% in Regular Trading, Storage Sector Rally and Analyst Upgrades Drive Gains

Market Focus07-14 22:23

On July 14, NetApp rose 5.11% in regular trading, trading at $171.93/share, with turnover of approximately $82.92 million. The stock advanced amid a broad-based rally across the storage sector.

On the news front, the storage sector saw collective strength, with peers Dell Technologies up 5.24%, SanDisk up 4.56%, Western Digital up 3.05%, and Seagate up 2.02%, reflecting significant sector linkage effects. Multiple institutions have recently raised their price targets on NetApp in rapid succession: Daiwa Securities lifted its target from $117 to $180 maintaining an Outperform rating, BofA raised to $180, Argus Research upgraded to $200 with a Buy rating, and Citic Securities raised to $199 maintaining a Buy rating. These upgrades reflect broad market optimism around AI-driven enterprise storage demand growth.

The upgrades follow NetApp's fiscal Q4 results in late May, which beat expectations with adjusted EPS of $2.43 versus estimates of $2.27 and revenue of $1.95 billion versus estimates of $1.87 billion. The company's all-flash array revenue reached $1.22 billion, up 18% year-over-year, underscoring its positioning within the AI-fueled storage super cycle.

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