By Harsh Chauhan
Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks continue to post outstanding
revenue and earnings growth quarter after quarter, but stock prices in
the sector have been under pressure of late due to an array of
macroeconomic and geopolitical factors. Investors, therefore, can now
buy some top AI stocks
at really attractive valuations, as the strong top- and bottom-line
growth that they have been achieving has not yet been fully factored
into their prices.
If you have $1,000 in investible cash right now, I'd suggest putting that money into Micron Technology (MU) and CoreWeave (CRWV ).
Both stocks are trading at extremely attractive valuations, and they
could increase your investment by at least fivefold in the next couple
of years.
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Micron's red-hot growth isn't getting much love from the market
Micron Technology has made its shareholders significantly richer over
the past year, and it can keep doing so, as its latest quarterly
results show. The memory specialist reported blowout numbers for its
fiscal Q2 2026 on March 18, annihilating Wall Street's expectations.
Management also offered phenomenal guidance for the current quarter.
However, Micron's stock
has retreated 30% since it delivered that quarterly report. Concerns
about management's increasing capital expenditures (capex) and its
ability to further improve its margins have been headwinds for the
stock, but that's good news for savvy investors looking to buy a
fast-growing company on the cheap.
The stock trades at a sales multiple of 8.2 and just under 20 times
earnings. Its forward earnings multiple of just 7.6 screams "value." For
a company whose revenue almost tripled in the previous quarter and
whose earnings shot up by 682% year over year, those multiples are too
cheap to ignore.
Investors would probably be making a mistake by not buying this
memory stock right now because the commodity it sells is in short
supply, primarily due to high demand from AI data centers. Last year,
Micron peer SK Hynix said it anticipated demand for AI data center
memory chips, known as high-bandwidth memory (HBM), would increase at a
compound annual rate of 30% through 2030.
A single gigabyte (GB) of HBM consumes three times the wafer capacity
that's needed to manufacture 1 GB of the latest generation of
traditional dynamic random access memory (DRAM). So, the strong jump in
HBM demand explains why manufacturers are anticipating that supply will
remain tight for the next three to five years.
As a result, Micron is likely to continue benefiting from favorable
memory pricing, which is why its earnings are expected to surge.
Assuming Micron does achieve $98.91 per share in earnings in the next
fiscal year, and that its forward earnings multiple adjusts to 23 -- in
line with that of the tech-laden Nasdaq 100 index -- its stock price could jump to $2,275. That would be a sixfold jump from current levels.
And as the memory supply deficit is estimated to last until 2030, this semiconductor stock could post even bigger gains by the end of the decade, which is why buying it at its current valuation is a no-brainer.
CoreWeave is a value pick in AI infrastructure
CoreWeave stock is down 39% over the past six months, and trading at
just 7 times sales. That's a very attractive valuation for a company
that is growing its revenues exponentially.
Hyperscalers and AI companies have been using CoreWeave's dedicated
AI data centers to run their workloads. It has huge contracts with the
likes of OpenAI, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft. And it has been diversifying its customer base by adding new customers such as IBM and Mistral AI.
The growing demand for the company's data centers is why it is
aggressively building more. Its capex is poised to jump from $14.9
billion in 2025 to between $30 billion and $35 billion this year. Those
rapidly rising outlays are probably spooking some investors, but those
who are concerned should note that CoreWeave's revenue backlog jumped by
342% year over year in the fourth quarter to $66.8 billion.
Its annual revenue, for comparison, rose 168% to $5.1 billion. Given
that CoreWeave continues to add customers amid growing demand for data
center computing capacity, it needs to aggressively expand its
infrastructure. The company aims to increase its active data center
capacity to 3,100 megawatts by the end of 2027, an almost fourfold jump
from the 850 megawatts it operated last year.
The aggressive expansion explains the rapid growth that analysts expect in the business' top line.
Their consensus forecasts
are for revenue to increase by a multiple of 7 in just three years.
That's why this tech stock deserves a higher price-to-sales multiple.
Currently, it trades at a P/S of 7, a slight discount to the U.S. tech
sector's average multiple of 7.7. But even if CoreWeave is still trading
at 7 times sales in 2028, if it achieves $34.5 billion in revenue that
year (as per the chart), its market cap could reach $241.5 billion.
That's almost 5.6 times its current figure. Moreover, CoreWeave stock
could sustain its red-hot momentum beyond the next couple of years
since data center demand is anticipated to remain robust until 2030,
which means investors can buy this potential long-term winner at a
ridiculously cheap valuation right now.
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Harsh Chauhan
has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has
positions in and recommends International Business Machines, Meta
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