Lam Research (LRCX) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Lam Research's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
LRCX closed at $314.00 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -6.9% from its 50-day average and +23.8% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “split trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +3.9%, beating SPY by 0.8%. It remains 28.4% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -6.9% from its 50-day average and +23.8% from its 200-day average. Over three months, LRCX returned +3.9% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -6.9%
- vs 200-day
- +23.8%
- From 52W high
- -28.4%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
LRCX appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 5 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 5 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.25, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | #17 | — |
| 2026-07-01 | #20 | — |
| 2026-06-26 | #12 | — |
| 2026-06-23 | #26 | — |
| 2026-06-04 | #28 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.069 calls, 0.080 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
4 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Lam Research position in their latest filing, worth $411M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Appaloosa Management David Tepper · LRCX | $166M | 2.15% | 382,500 | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Altimeter Capital Brad Gerstner · LRCX | $171M | 1.74% | 394,080 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Duquesne Family Office Stanley Druckenmiller · LRCX | $19M | 0.36% | 43,600 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · LRCX | $56M | 0.08% | 129,318 | +10.8% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open LRCX Financials →How LRCX trades — the working manual
Lam Research supplies deposition, etch and related equipment used to manufacture semiconductors. For the stock, wafer-fabrication spending is highly cyclical, so memory investment, leading-edge process intensity, installed-base service revenue and China exposure must be read together rather than treating one quarter's shipments as a durable run rate.
What can move the tape
- 01Memory and foundry-logic capital spending, utilization and customer investment plans.
- 02Process complexity and Lam's content per wafer at advanced nodes and packaging steps.
- 03Installed-base service, spares and upgrade revenue across the existing equipment fleet.
- 04Gross margin, working capital, research spending and capital returns through the cycle.
What can fool the read
- 01Memory spending can reverse quickly when supply, pricing or customer inventories change.
- 02Export controls can restrict products, customers or service revenue in important markets.
- 03Customer concentration makes a small number of capital budgets disproportionately important.
- 04High process intensity does not eliminate order timing, acceptance and shipment volatility.
Lam Research triggered 1 issuer-level flag in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was LRCX on 2026-05-06: 1.6× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.5% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported LRCX events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
LRCX stock questions
Is LRCX stock in an uptrend?+
LRCX is classified in the “split trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -6.9% from its 50-day average and +23.8% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in LRCX mean?+
Lam Research's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the LRCX 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are LRCX's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated LRCX Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no LRCX earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.