Micron (MU) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Micron'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
MU closed at $966.78 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +0.2% from its 50-day average and +69.3% 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 +26.9%, beating SPY by 23.8%. It remains 23.0% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +0.2% from its 50-day average and +69.3% from its 200-day average. Over three months, MU returned +26.9% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +0.2%
- vs 200-day
- +69.3%
- From 52W high
- -23.0%
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
MU appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 45 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 34 call-side, 29 put-side and 18 on both lists. The latest session placed its call-side signature #1. Its larger composite score was 6.72, above the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | #1 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | — | #5 |
| 2026-08-19 | #4 | #11 |
| 2026-08-18 | #2 | — |
| 2026-08-14 | — | #13 |
| 2026-08-12 | — | #2 |
| 2026-08-11 | #24 | #15 |
| 2026-08-07 | #4 | #23 |
| 2026-08-06 | #7 | — |
| 2026-08-05 | #14 | #13 |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.258 calls, 0.158 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-08-21Aug 21: -0.8%, flagged by the options scanner (bullish top-5) rather than by volume. No filing, release or analyst action dated to the session.
Micron shows up in the flow ranking on positioning, not news. The composite rewards OTM open-interest change and volume-to-OI, both of which can spike on a single large spread; without a dated driver the honest read is 'watched, unexplained'.
Source: thetrading.tools: Unusual Options Activity ↗Curated-manager ownership
3 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Micron position in their latest filing, worth $1.4B 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 · MU | $1.1B | 14.57% | 975,000 | -41.4% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Altimeter Capital Brad Gerstner · MU | $242M | 2.46% | 209,520 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · MU | $50M | 0.08% | 43,335 | +1194.7% 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 MU Financials →How MU trades — the working manual
Micron is a memory producer exposed to DRAM and NAND pricing cycles, with data-center and high-bandwidth memory changing the product mix. For the stock, unit demand matters less in isolation than pricing, inventories, utilization and whether capital discipline prevents new supply from erasing cycle gains.
What can move the tape
- 01DRAM and NAND pricing, bit shipments and inventory normalization across end markets.
- 02High-bandwidth memory ramps, data-center mix and qualification with major customers.
- 03Gross-margin recovery as utilization, product mix and pricing change.
- 04Industry capital spending and the balance between future bit supply and demand.
What can fool the read
- 01Memory cycles can reverse quickly when customers rebuild or reduce inventory.
- 02Industry supply additions can pressure pricing even during structural demand growth.
- 03Customer qualifications and product transitions can shift revenue timing.
- 04High operating leverage makes earnings and the stock unusually sensitive to small pricing changes.
Micron triggered 2 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was MU on 2026-05-26: 1.6× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +9.2% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported MU 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 | 2026-08-15 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
MU stock questions
Is MU stock in an uptrend?+
MU is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +0.2% from its 50-day average and +69.3% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in MU mean?+
Micron'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 MU 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 MU's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated MU 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 MU 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.