--- title: "Weekly Recap | Super Micro Computer -12.72%, earnings beat then faded" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/304725676.md" description: "Super Micro Computer (SMCI) fell 12.72% this week to close at $28.76, underperforming the S&P 500 by about 10.04 percentage points as the benchmark lost 2.68%. The stock opened Monday at $33.45, quickly came under pressure and closed at $30.44. It edged up to $31.39 on Tuesday, then slipped to $29.60 on Wednesday amid the earnings reaction. Thursday marked the week’s low at $25.81 before a Friday bounce took the close back to $28.76. Weekly amplitude was 22." datetime: "2026-11-07T08:56:13.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/304725676.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/304725676.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/304725676.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # Weekly Recap | Super Micro Computer -12.72%, earnings beat then faded ## The Week Super Micro Computer (SMCI) fell 12.72% this week to close at $28.76, underperforming the S&P 500 by about 10.04 percentage points as the benchmark lost 2.68%. The stock opened Monday at $33.45, quickly came under pressure and closed at $30.44. It edged up to $31.39 on Tuesday, then slipped to $29.60 on Wednesday amid the earnings reaction. Thursday marked the week’s low at $25.81 before a Friday bounce took the close back to $28.76. Weekly amplitude was 22.99%, and average daily volume of 58.8m shares ran roughly 60% above the prior 60-day median. ## Key Events The week turned on the company’s fiscal Q1 2027 earnings and a broader AI-sector sell-off. On Wednesday, SMCI reported revenue and profit above its own preliminary figures and raised full-year revenue guidance, sending shares up nearly 8% in premarket trading. The earnings call highlighted strong AI demand but also a single customer accounting for 44% of sales, which drew attention to concentration risk. Gross margin fell sequentially, though management said this did not signal weak AI profitability. On Thursday the company announced a KV cache solution with IBM and NVIDIA, touting improved inference performance. The wider market backdrop was a sharp pullback in AI names after the US midterm elections. The only material filing this week was the 10-Q submitted on Saturday. ## Analyst Ratings Among 18 firms covering SMCI, 2 rate it strong buy, 2 buy, 2 overweight, 11 hold, 1 underweight, and 2 sell. The consensus rating is hold, with a consensus target of $43.40, about 50.9% above the current price of $28.76. Targets range from $15 to $60, reflecting wide disagreement. Within the hardware, storage and peripherals industry, SMCI ranks 10th out of 32 companies. ## The Week Ahead US inflation data dominates next week. On Tuesday 10 November, CPI and core CPI come out; headline CPI shows a prior reading of 0.59, while core CPI was 2.6 with a 2.8 forecast. Monday brings wholesale sales data, followed by the NFIB small business optimism index on Tuesday. On the company side, the next earnings event is fiscal Q2 2027 results, scheduled for 2 February 2027 after the close, with estimates around $1.304 EPS and $20.5bn revenue. The key questions are whether the post-election AI sell-off continues and how Microsoft’s reported cut to data-centre capex affects server demand expectations. ## In Short SMCI finished the week squeezed between an earnings beat and a broad AI sell-off. The analyst picture is mixed: a hold consensus with a target about 50% above spot, but a very wide $15–$60 range. The latest trading day showed net buying across large, medium and small order sizes, though direction was not uniform. Valuation looks modest at about 1.6x price-to-book and 5.7x P/E, but the market is still testing how much to pay for AI compute delivery timing and customer concentration. The next move likely hinges on how next week’s CPI prints reshape sector pricing, and whether the company’s revenue concentration proves durable. *This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.* ### Related Stocks - [SMCI.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/SMCI.US.md) - [SMCY.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/SMCY.US.md) - [SMCL.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/SMCL.US.md) - [SMCX.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/SMCX.US.md) - [SMCZ.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/SMCZ.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [Super Micro Computer (SMCI) Addresses Export Questions After China Linked Server Rental](https://longbridge.com/en/news/305194730.md) - [Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) Begins Shipping H15 Servers for AI and Cloud](https://longbridge.com/en/news/305177705.md) - [Analysts Just Made A Massive Upgrade To Their Super Micro Computer, Inc. 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