SanDisk's $14B Buyback Fails to Impress — Why Two Straight Days of Losses After Strong Earnings?
Memory's post-earnings selloff ran a second session Thursday. SanDisk −6.81%, its $14 billion buyback no help; Western Digital −13.03% even with revenue up 44% year-over-year; SK Hynix −4.97%; the 2x SanDisk product SNXX −13.53%. The logic is plain: results are the rearview mirror, guidance sets the price, and SanDisk's cautious next quarter erased the beat. Analysts also point to hidden leverage still unwinding. Buybacks and quadrupled profit couldn't lift the stock — so who prices memory now?