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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Sep 8
SanDisk Jumps 3.6% After S&P 100 Addition as Dell and Palo Alto Also Advance
Updated
Updated · Yahoo Finance · Sep 8

SanDisk Jumps 3.6% After S&P 100 Addition as Dell and Palo Alto Also Advance

3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Sep 8

Summary

  • SanDisk rose 3.6% in late Monday trading after S&P said it will join the S&P 100 on Sept. 21, extending a nearly 12% jump from Friday’s session.
  • Dell Technologies and Palo Alto Networks, also added to the index, gained less than 1% as inclusion lifted visibility, credibility and expected demand from index-tracking funds.
  • S&P is replacing Nike, Colgate-Palmolive, Molson Coors Beverage and Simon Property Group with SanDisk, Dell, Palo Alto Networks and Arista Networks, underscoring tech’s growing weight over consumer names.
  • Lynx Research set a $2,450 target on SanDisk versus its $1,740 Friday close, while 20 of 24 analysts rate the stock Buy or better and see about 22% upside on average.
  • SanDisk remains one of the S&P 500’s biggest winners this year, up 633%, though retail sentiment on Stocktwits was still marked bearish as of Sunday.

Insights

As tech titans replace legacy brands in the S&P 100, is this a permanent economic shift or a dangerous peak in AI hype?
Could soaring memory chip prices eventually crush consumer tech demand and derail the very AI supercycle driving these stocks higher?
Will massive passive fund buying trigger a short-term tech bubble that bursts once the September 21 rebalancing is complete?