Micron (MU +6.81%) stock is bounding higher in Wednesday's trading, with its share price up 6.5% as of 12:45 p.m. ET. For comparison, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite were up 0.3% and 0.6%.
Micron is seeing bullish momentum in today's trading, thanks in part to news about lobbying against the use of Chinese memory chips in the U.S. market. The company's share price is also getting a boost from strong quarterly results and guidance from two high-profile players in the neocloud artificial intelligence space. Whlie Micron has been climbing recently, the stock is still down roughly 6% over the last month.
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Quarterly reports from CoreWeave and Nebius boosting Micron stock
CoreWeave published its second-quarter results after the market closed yesterday, and Nebius published its Q2 results before the market opened this morning -- and each neocloud company posted better-than-expected sales and forward guidance. Micron provides high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips that are incorporated into the advanced processors that are at the heart of CoreWeave's and Nebius's data centers, and strong quarterly performances and forward guidance from both companies bode well for the memory-chip specialist.
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Micron rises on lobbying push
According to a recent report published by The New York Times, both U.S. officials and Micron are lobbying to prevent the use of Chinese memory chips. Due to shortages, Apple has been testing the waters for using Chinese memory chips -- a development that has put valuation pressures on Micron stock.
Micron is a leading provider of memory chips and has benefited from soaring demand in the category, but there's a risk that its unit sales and pricing power could be diminished if high-performance alternatives from China see substantial adoption. Meanwhile, some U.S. officials and policy analysts are raising national security concerns about integrating Chinese chips into the country's tech stack.
