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 $329.51 on Oct 7, 2026. The price is +6.7% from its 50-day average and +18.7% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -6.7%, trailing SPY by 10.1%. It remains 24.9% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessSplit-adjusted OHLCV, end-of-day options chains, SEC 13F filings and EDGAR XBRL company facts · Price/options daily; 13F quarterly; Financials each earnings seasonData as of 2026-10-07 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +6.7% from its 50-day average and +18.7% from its 200-day average. Over three months, LRCX returned -6.7% versus +3.4% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +6.7%
- vs 200-day
- +18.7%
- From 52W high
- -24.9%
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 93 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 0.11, 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
2026-10-06Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.129 calls, 0.075 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-09-18Sep 18: Lam Research rose 7.0% to $288.11 on 18.0 million shares, 2.4x its 30-day average, on the same JPMorgan wafer-fab-equipment note that lifted Applied Materials and KLA, which raised equipment growth to 31% in 2026 and 38% in 2027 and flagged Lam's etch and deposition franchise for the fab buildout.
Lam is the most memory-exposed of the three large equipment makers, so an upgrade driven by DRAM and NAND capital spending hits it hardest. Fiscal 2026 revenue was $23.23 billion, up 26%, and the board raised the quarterly dividend 27% in late August alongside a $3 billion five-year lab expansion. A Sep 17 statement at a trade event about roughly $1.2 billion for a first Indian component plant did not appear as a company release and is context rather than cause. The close is 33.5% below the Jun 30 52-week closing high of $433.33. The next quarterly guide is the check on whether the 2027 step-up is real.
Source: Lam Research: newsroom (dividend raise, lab network expansion) ↗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 2 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-10-07 archive. The latest was LRCX on 2026-09-18: 2.4× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +5.0% 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 | 2026-10-05 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-10-07 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-10-06 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-10-07 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-27 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-10-07 | JSON ↓ |
LRCX stock questions
Is LRCX stock in an uptrend?+
LRCX is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-10-07: the close is +6.7% from its 50-day average and +18.7% 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.