SanDisk Stock Skyrockets: Here’s Why Investors Are Flocking Today

SanDisk shares just caught fire—and the market's scrambling to understand why.

Storage demand explodes

Flash memory isn't just holding data anymore—it's holding up entire portfolios. As cloud infrastructure expands and IoT devices multiply, SanDisk's products are becoming the digital world's backbone. No fancy speculation here—just raw, undeniable necessity driving value.

Tech's silent workhorse

While crypto traders chase the next meme coin, SanDisk keeps powering the actual technology making those trades possible. Every transaction, every NFT, every decentralized app relies on storage—and SanDisk delivers it without the volatility. Sometimes the real alpha isn't in chasing trends—it's in owning the picks and shovels.

Because let's be honest—Wall Street analysts would probably recommend shorting oxygen if they could find a derivative for it.

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What Morgan Stanley says about Sandisk stock

In a note covered on The Fly today, Morgan Stanley called Sandisk its "top pick" in the semiconductor space, citing its belief that makers of NAND flash memory like Sandisk have been left out of investors' "heated" race to buy up artificial intelligence (AI) stocks over the past couple of years.

Demand for NAND is growing, though, argues Morgan Stanley, as the AI landscape shifts from an emphasis on building AI large language models toward using them to answer user questions, called AI inference. High-speed, high-capacity storage such as the flash memory that Sandisk makes is essential for such tasks, argues the analyst -- and that means Sandisk's business is starting to boom.

MS estimates that by 2029, 34% of the global NAND production will go to AI purposes, adding $29 billion worth of NAND sales globally.

Is Sandisk stock a buy?

Investors had better hope Morgan Stanley is right about that, because as things stand today, Sandisk is a bit of a basket case. The company hasn't earned a profit since 2022, and it's racked up $1.6 billion in losses over the last 12 months.

Free cash flow, too, is negative -- although the situation there is improving, with positive operating cash flow, turned into negative free cash FLOW only by high capital spending. The good news is that, with earnings expected to turn positive this fiscal year, Sandisk may cost only about 21x current year earnings.

If growth is going to be as good as Morgan Stanley expects, Sandisk stock could be a buy.