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LRCX·Lam Research Corporation

$200.17
+14.97 (+8.08%)
High
$213.00
Open
$208.65
Market Cap
231.35B
52W High
$438.50
Low
$191.89
P. Close
$200.17
P/E
27.38
52W Low
$135.50
Fwd P/E
16.52
DailyIQ Est.
$391.08
Inst. Own.
79.0%
Short Interest
2.43%
Days to Cover
3.6
Div. Yield
0.56%
Next Ex-Div
~Dec 26
Div. Growth
11+ yrs
NewEarnings release, scored · filed Oct 21, 2026New outlook issued · tone -1.6 vs prior release · 35 lines scoredSee the breakdown
Technical Score (1D)
96
BULLISH
News Sentiment
43
BEARISH
On Nov 5, Lam Research Corporation announced that its Board approved a $25 billion share repurchase authorization and declared a quarterly dividend of $0.33 per share, signaling confidence in its cash generation and a commitment to returning value to shareholders. The same day, the company reported a 22 % rise in September‑quarter revenue to $8.219 billion and a 40 % operating margin, driven by demand for AI‑related equipment and complex chip designs. Investors reacted by selling shares, with Lam Research falling 13.5 % as concerns emerged that sustaining the earnings surge would depend on future customer spending and equipment acceptance timing. Over the past month, the stock had declined 36 % as hedge funds accelerated a broader unwind of 2026 AI‑theme stocks, prioritizing profit locking over fundamental concerns. The broader semiconductor sector, including Applied Materials, AMD, and Nvidia, also experienced significant price erosion during the same period.
LOW TARGET
$255 +27.4%
2 analysts
MEAN TARGET
$364 +81.9%
15 analysts
HIGH TARGET
$500 +149.8%
25 analysts
PRICE RANGE
$255.00 - $500.00
SB / B / H / S / SS
11/24/5/1/1
DAILYIQ EST.
$391.08 (+95.4%)
Sector
Technology
Industry
Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
Exchange
NMS
Country
United States
Symbol
LRCX
Description
Lam Research Corporation is a global provider of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, crucial for producing the integrated circuits that power modern electronics. The company's core business revolves around designing, manufacturing, and servicing advanced processing systems used in the fabrication of integrated circuits, with a significant presence in key markets across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Lam Research offers a broad portfolio of products, including deposition, etch, and cleaning systems, addressing critical steps in the chip-making process. These diverse offerings, from ALTUS systems for metallization to Flex and Versys for etching, enable the creation of complex semiconductor designs. By providing essential equipment and services, Lam Research plays a vital role in enabling the technological advancements in the semiconductor industry.
Bought (1Y)
0 shares
$0
Sold (1Y)
337,648 shares
$109.0M
Mayer Bethany-
Sell719 shares2026-11-02
Kang Ho Kyu-
Tax Withholding491 shares2026-10-30
ARCHER TIMOTHYPresident and CEO
Option Exercise31,400 shares2026-10-23
ARCHER TIMOTHYPresident and CEO
Sell31,400 shares2026-10-23
ARCHER TIMOTHYPresident and CEO
Option Exercise31,400 shares2026-10-23
91/ 100
Strong bullish
Overall: Bullish
✓Revenue growing year over year
✓Positive net margin
✓Positive operating cash flow
Gross Margin
50.5%
Net Margin
31.3%
Revenue CAGR
19.6%
Current Ratio
2.63x
Debt / Equity
0.30x
Return on Equity
58.3%
Earnings Summary
In the most recent quarters, Lam’s revenue rose from $4.72 billion in Q1 2025 to $5.17 billion in Q2 2025 and $5.32 billion in Q3 2025, with EPS increasing from $1.04 to $1.33 to $1.26, consistently beating estimates; Q2 2026 revenue of $5.34 billion matched the $5.34 billion estimate, while EPS of $1.27 beat the $1.19 estimate; Q3 2026 revenue of $5.84 billion exceeded the $5.76 billion estimate, and EPS of $1.47 beat the $1.36 estimate; Q4 2026 revenue of $6.72 billion slightly underperformed the $6.80 billion estimate, yet EPS of $1.82 beat the $1.68 estimate. Historically, Lam Research has maintained a strong earnings beat streak, with EPS surpassing expectations in every quarter since Q1 2025, while revenue growth has accelerated from 9% in Q1 2025 to 12% in Q4 2026, reflecting robust demand for AI and advanced chip technologies. Recent news highlights a 54% revenue increase to $8.22 billion and a doubled free cash flow of $3.24 billion in Q1 2027, underscoring the company’s solid financial health, though analysts caution that supply‑chain constraints could temper future growth; the company’s valuation remains reasonable with a strong brokerage consensus.

EPS

EstBeatMiss
$1.02$1.40$1.79$2.18$2.57Q3'25Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26Q1'27Q2'27
QtrEstActual+/−
Q2'27$2.39 - -
Q1'27$2.22$2.20-1.0%
Q4'26$1.68$1.82+8.1%
Q3'26$1.36$1.47+7.8%
Q2'26$1.19$1.27+6.3%
Q3'25$1.22$1.26+3.3%

Revenue

EstBeatMiss
$4.8B$5.9B$7.1B$8.2B$9.3BQ3'25Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26Q1'27Q2'27
QtrEstActual+/−
Q2'27$8.8B - -
Q1'27$8.3B$8.2B-1.2%
Q4'26$6.8B$6.7B-1.1%
Q3'26$5.8B$5.8B+1.5%
Q2'26$5.3B$5.3B+0.0%
Q3'25 - $5.3B -

Market Data

LRCX Stock Snapshot

BULLISH96/100
$200.17+$14.97 (8.1%)
Market cap
231.35B
P/E ratio
27.4
Day range
$191.89 – $213.00
News sentiment
43/100 · Neutral
Analyst target
$364.03 (+81.9%)
Consensus
Buy · 42 analysts
52-week range+47.7% off low · -54.4% from high
$135.50$438.50
Price $200.17 DailyIQ Est. $391.08

Lam Research Corporation ranks ahead of most of DailyIQ's universe on 12-month price momentum. Coverage is deep enough that new information gets priced quickly, so surprises tend to be macro rather than fundamental.

Reverse DCF

What growth is priced into LRCX?

RICH

At today's price, Lam Research Corporation needs to grow free cash flow about 34.9% a year for 3 years, slowing to a long-run rate by year 10, to justify its valuation at a 12.20% cost of capital. Over the last five years its revenue has trended at 6.8% a year, so the market is asking for 28.1 percentage points above its own delivered rate. On that basis LRCX looks priced above what its own growth record supports.

Implied FCF growth
34.9%
Growth trend
6.8%
Growth gap
+28.1 pts
Verdict
RICH
Discount rate (WACC)
12.20%
Beta
1.77

Behaviour On Record

What LRCX's own history says about today's numbers

Realized volatility (21d)
59.4% 91st pct
Below its peak
-50.3%
vs 200-day average
-24.3%
Up days (1y)
49%

Lam Research Corporation is currently running 59.4% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against LRCX's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 91st percentile — an extreme by its own standards, against a typical reading of 34.8%.

LRCX is trading -50.3% below its running peak. Across 13 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -26.9%, and the deepest was -56.8% in 2022. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began, and where past declines also continued.

Price sits -24.3% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 1st percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year LRCX closed higher on 49% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a falling streak.

On November specifically: over 13 years of records, LRCX finished the month higher 8 of 13 times, with a median return of +4.3% and an average of +6.5%. Its strongest month historically has been May at +8.3% on average, its weakest August at -2.0%.

Overnight risk is measurable too: LRCX has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 192 of 3,268 sessions (5.9% of the time), with the largest gaps running +6.5% and -6.1%.

Across the last 4 dated reports on file, LRCX moved an average of 6.5% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 4 times, with a median move of -3.5% and a largest of +13.6%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-11-06 and 2026-11-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against LRCX's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.

Sector Rotation

Is money rotating into or out of LRCX's sector?

Lam Research Corporation sits in the Semiconductors sector, currently ranked 12th of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (lagging).

Sector rank
#12 of 12
Sector state
Lagging
Sector rotation score
0

Options Market

What is the options market pricing for LRCX?

CallsPuts

For Lam Research Corporation's nearest expiry (2026-11-06, 0 days out), open interest is call-heavy, a bullish tilt (put/call ratio of 0.57), with at-the-money implied volatility around 44.2%.

Put/call ratio (2026-11-06)
0.57
ATM implied volatility
44.2%
Total open interest
18,265

Analyst Consensus Estimates

What do analysts expect LRCX to earn?

Analysts expect Lam Research Corporation to earn $9.65 per share in the fiscal year ending Jun 2027 and $16.44 in the fiscal year ending Jun 2030, from 2 estimates. These are analyst forecasts, not company guidance, and later years rest on fewer analysts.

Quarter endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Dec 2026$2.35$2.33 to $2.5526$8.64B24
Mar 2027$2.48$2.35 to $2.8426$9.01B24
Sep 2027$2.74$2.48 to $2.946~$9.83B-
Dec 2027$2.93$2.62 to $3.096~$10.51B-
Fiscal year endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Jun 2027$9.65$9.20 to $10.3030$35.39B30
Jun 2028$12.24$10.41 to $15.1228$42.60B28
Jun 2029$14.23$12.68 to $15.365~$51.03B-
Jun 2030$16.44$15.38 to $17.512~$58.95B-

Revenue marked ~ is our calculation from the EPS estimate, not analyst consensus.

Analyst Rating Changes

Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on LRCX?

UBS most recently reiterated its rating on Lam Research Corporation to Buy on Oct 22, 2026 with a price target of $400 (from $425). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 0 downgrades, a net mixed lean.

Latest action
UBS: Buy
90-day upgrades
0
90-day downgrades
0
Net rating momentum
0
DateFirmActionRatingPrice target
Oct 22, 2026UBSMaintainedBuy$425 → $400
Oct 22, 2026CitigroupMaintainedBuy$450 → $435
Oct 22, 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainedOverweight$385 → $339
Oct 22, 2026MizuhoMaintainedOutperform$365 → $360
Oct 22, 2026NeedhamMaintainedBuy$390 → $290
Oct 20, 2026Evercore ISI GroupMaintainedOutperform$355 → $315
Oct 5, 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainedOverweight$367 → $385
Oct 1, 2026B. Riley SecuritiesMaintainedBuy$350 → $390
Sep 1, 2026UBSMaintainedBuy$435 → $425
Aug 25, 2026MizuhoMaintainedOutperform$370 → $365
Jul 30, 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainedOverweight$404 → $367
Jul 30, 2026B. Riley SecuritiesMaintainedBuy$385 → $350

Earnings Release, Scored

What did Lam Research Corporation's latest earnings release say?

Filed Oct 21, 2026 · SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99

New outlook issued
Tone56.2/ 100-1.6 vs prior release
Hedging words0.19per 100 words+0.00 vs prior release
Tone, last 3 releasesScale 40–63

Most important lines

  1. 1

    Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash balances increased to $7.45 billion at the end of the September 2026 quarter compared to $5.60 billion at the end of the June 2026 quarter.

  2. 2

    Deferred revenue at the end of the September 2026 quarter increased to $2.66 billion compared to $2.43 billion as of the end of the June 2026 quarter.

  3. 3

    “With AI driving higher semiconductor demand and greater device complexity, our focus on operational execution helped Lam deliver record revenue, profit, and earnings per share in the September quarter,” said Tim Archer, Lam Research's President and Chief Executive Officer.

    New this quarter

Peers & ETF holders

LRCX peers & ETF holders

News & sentiment

What is the news saying about LRCX?

LRCX fell 40.0% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 33 and 100 from Oct 6 to Oct 30, then dropped to 34 on Nov 2.

Daily close and news tone, Oct 6 to Nov 6
$200$300Oct 6: tone 100Oct 7: tone 82Oct 8: tone 70Oct 9: tone 47Oct 12: tone 33Oct 13: tone 49Oct 14: tone 54Oct 15: tone 51Oct 16: tone 37Oct 19: tone 49Oct 20: tone 49Oct 21: tone 52Oct 22: tone 42Oct 23: tone 36Oct 26: tone 45Oct 27: tone 55Oct 28: tone 42Oct 29: tone 52Oct 30: tone 76Nov 2: tone 34Nov 3: tone 51Nov 4: tone 29Nov 5: tone 47Nov 6: tone 55Oct 6News toneNov 6123
  1. Oct 21 -11.9%same day: Lam Research Corporation Reports Financial Results for the Quarter Ended September 27, 2026
  2. Nov 5 -16.4%same day: Lam Research Stocks Fall 13.5% as Equipment Investors Reassess AI Spending
  3. Nov 6 +8.1%same day: Lam Research Unleashes $25 Billion Stock Buyback

Technical analysis

How strong is LRCX's momentum right now?

On the daily chart LRCX ranks at the 96th percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a bullish reading.

Momentum rank by timeframe0 = weakest, 100 = strongest
See what drives the rankThe inputs behind each timeframe's momentum rank, plus RSI, stochastics, Bollinger Bands and moving averages. Free with an account.

Institutional ownership

Are big funds buying or selling LRCX?

119 of the 255 tracked managers added to LRCX in their latest 13F and 132 trimmed. Together they own 79.0% of the company, worth $390.8B. BlackRock and Vanguard Capital Management alone hold 18.4%.

119adding132trimming4unchanged
Largest holders by stake, latest 13FBar = share of LRCX
  1. $57.5B positionTrimmed 0.1% last quarter
  2. $35.4B positionAdded 0.7% last quarter
  3. $26.3B positionAdded 2.6% last quarter
  4. $22.7B positionAdded 99.6% last quarter
  5. $18.6B positionAdded 38.5% last quarter
  6. $15.9B positionTrimmed 1.1% last quarter
  7. $14.9B positionTrimmed 1.9% last quarter
  8. $14.6B positionAdded 0.3% last quarter
  9. $8.3B positionAdded 1.3% last quarter
  10. $7.9B positionTrimmed 14.9% last quarter
Full holdings history

Congressional trading

Is Congress trading LRCX?

12 members of Congress disclosed 25 LRCX trades between Mar 31, 2025 and Oct 15, 2026: 9 buys and 16 sells, about $365.0K in estimated value.

BuysSellsAprJulOctJan ’26AprJulOct
BuySell$1K–$15K$15K–$50K$50K–$100K$100K–$250K

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How has LRCX done against its peers?

Over the six months to Nov 6, LRCX returned −32.4%. Of the 15 related stocks and ETFs, 11 did better, led by AMD at +6.2%.

Change since May 6, through Nov 6
−100%−50%0%+50%+100%May 6JunJulAugSepOctNov 6AMD +6.2%LRCX −32.4%SOXX −73.1%