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 <li>Seagate is strategically positioned to capitalize on the exponential growth in data driven by AI and cloud computing, leveraging its leadership in high-capacity storage solutions.</li>
 <li>The company's technological lead in Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) provides a significant competitive advantage, enabling higher storage densities and lower total cost of ownership for hyperscale customers, with a roadmap extending to 50TB+ drives.</li>
 <li>After a cyclical downturn, Seagate has demonstrated a strong financial recovery with record gross margins and a significant increase in free cash flow, enabling renewed shareholder returns through dividends and share buybacks.</li>
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  Seagate is strategically positioned to capitalize on the exponential growth in data driven by AI and cloud computing, leveraging its leadership in high-capacity storage solutions.
  The company's technological lead in Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) provides a significant competitive advantage, enabling higher storage densities and lower total cost of ownership for hyperscale customers, with a roadmap extending to 50TB+ drives.
  After a cyclical downturn, Seagate has demonstrated a strong financial recovery with record gross margins and a significant increase in free cash flow, enabling renewed shareholder returns through dividends and share buybacks.
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Primer: Seagate Technology Holdings PL (STX US) - Oct 2025

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>We remain bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and we will maintain our bullish outlook as long as market dynamics remain healthy and the S&amp;P 500 (SPX) is above 6028-6059.</li>
<li>Shorter-Term, the SPX violated its 3.5-month uptrend yesterday, but managed to rally back to the breakdown level by yesterday's close. </li>
<li>We would not yet call this a decisive breakdown, and we are on the lookout for a potential reclaim back above this uptrend at the 6425-3430 level. Or consolidation?</li>
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We remain bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and we will maintain our bullish outlook as long as market dynamics remain healthy and the S&amp;P 500 (SPX) is above 6028-6059.
Shorter-Term, the SPX violated its 3.5-month uptrend yesterday, but managed to rally back to the breakdown level by yesterday's close. 
We would not yet call this a decisive breakdown, and we are on the lookout for a potential reclaim back above this uptrend at the 6425-3430 level. Or consolidation?


Downgrading Staples to Underweight; New Leaders Still Leading As Prior Leaders Consolidate

Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

<ul><li>Seagate Technology reported a strong performance for the fiscal fourth quarter and the entire fiscal year 2025, characterized by significant year-over-year growth in key financial metrics.</li><li>The company's results highlighted a 30% year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue and record gross margins, marking the ninth consecutive quarter of gross margin improvement.</li><li>This performance was attributed to increased adoption of Seagate's heatassisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology and a robust demand for nearline products in global cloud markets.</li></ul>

Seagate Technology reported a strong performance for the fiscal fourth quarter and the entire fiscal year 2025, characterized by significant year-over-year growth in key financial metrics.The company's results highlighted a 30% year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue and record gross margins, marking the ninth consecutive quarter of gross margin improvement.This performance was attributed to increased adoption of Seagate's heatassisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology and a robust demand for nearline products in global cloud markets.

Seagate Technology: Initiation of Coverage- HAMR Technology Advancement

AI | Semiconductors | Commodities, Mint Finance

Raghav Vashisht

AI | Semiconductors | Commodities

Deep Fundamental Analysis

Mint Finance

Mint Finance's investment research blends deep fundamental analysis with technical & quant insights. Investment strategies straddle across multiple asset classes with risk management embedded into every trade to deliver an outsized reward-to-risk ratio.

Mint Finance's research is centered around three key themes. First, energy transition and climate change. Second, artificial intelligence. Third, shifting world order with its impact across politics and monetary economics.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul>
<li>TurboQuant triggered the sell-off, but the market appears to have priced a uniform demand shock across memory, despite the impact being limited to inference efficiency.</li>
<li>Supply remains tight; HBM capacity largely locked into 2026; TrendForce revised DRAM and NAND pricing sharply higher after the TurboQuant announcement. </li>
<li>Relevant risks sit elsewhere: early signs of pricing resistance in commodity memory, emerging share gains from Chinese suppliers, and a shift toward more staggered hyperscaler spending</li>
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TurboQuant triggered the sell-off, but the market appears to have priced a uniform demand shock across memory, despite the impact being limited to inference efficiency.
Supply remains tight; HBM capacity largely locked into 2026; TrendForce revised DRAM and NAND pricing sharply higher after the TurboQuant announcement. 
Relevant risks sit elsewhere: early signs of pricing resistance in commodity memory, emerging share gains from Chinese suppliers, and a shift toward more staggered hyperscaler spending


Memory's TurboQuant Panic Misses Where Demand Actually Sits

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

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<li>Three KPIs run the business, Get a fair return on the technology, dampen cyclicality via NBMs with financial guarantees, limiting to mid-to-high-teens bit growth</li>
<li>First three NBM agreements (signed March quarter): $42 billion total lifetime contracted value. Five NBM agreements now signed</li>
<li>SanDisk’s February 2025 Analyst Day call was that NAND would inflect in 2H25 and remain undersupplied through end 2026. Goeckeler is now extending the same conviction level through end 2027.</li>
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Three KPIs run the business, Get a fair return on the technology, dampen cyclicality via NBMs with financial guarantees, limiting to mid-to-high-teens bit growth
First three NBM agreements (signed March quarter): $42 billion total lifetime contracted value. Five NBM agreements now signed
SanDisk’s February 2025 Analyst Day call was that NAND would inflect in 2H25 and remain undersupplied through end 2026. Goeckeler is now extending the same conviction level through end 2027.


SanDisk @ JPM 54th Annual TMT. Key Takeaways & Full Transcript

United States

Seagate Technology Holdings Public Limited Company offers computer hardware products. The Company designs, manufactures, and markets hard disk drives for enterprise applications, client compute applications, client non-compute applications, personal data backup systems, portable external storage systems and digital media systems.

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Primer: Seagate Technology Holdings PL (STX US) - Oct 2025

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Vermilion Research

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Baptista Research

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Mint Finance

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SanDisk’s February 2025 Analyst Day call was that NAND would inflect in 2H25 and remain undersupplied through end 2026. Goeckeler is now extending...

William Keating

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Primer: Seagate Technology Holdings PL (STX US) - Oct 2025

Seagate is strategically positioned to capitalize on the exponential growth in data driven by AI and cloud computing, leveraging its leadership...

αSK

Downgrading Staples to Underweight; New Leaders Still Leading As Prior Leaders Consolidate

Downgrading Staples $XLP to Underweight; New Leaders Still Leading While Prior Leaders Consolidate; $SMH Above $280, 10-yr Treasury yield below key...

Vermilion Research

Seagate Technology: Initiation of Coverage- HAMR Technology Advancement

Seagate Technology reported a strong performance for the fiscal fourth quarter and the entire fiscal year 2025, characterized by significant...

Baptista Research

Memory's TurboQuant Panic Misses Where Demand Actually Sits

​TurboQuant sell-off triggers panic on inference efficiency. However, supply is tight, and pricing is revised higher. Risks seen in Chinese...

Mint Finance

SanDisk @ JPM 54th Annual TMT. Key Takeaways & Full Transcript

SanDisk’s February 2025 Analyst Day call was that NAND would inflect in 2H25 and remain undersupplied through end 2026. Goeckeler is now extending...

William Keating

TurboQuant sell-off triggers panic on inference efficiency. However, supply is tight, and pricing is revised higher. Risks seen in Chinese...