{"id":265703,"date":"2026-01-03T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/265703\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:00:27","slug":"analysts-grow-more-careful-on-super-micro-computer-smci-despite-ai-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/265703\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysts Grow More Careful on Super Micro Computer (SMCI) Despite AI Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI<\/strong><\/a>) is one of the Best AI Stocks to Buy under $50<\/a>. <\/strong>This AI infrastructure stock issued its latest fiscal first quarter results for 2026 back in November.<\/p>\n

Its adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.35, falling short of Wall Street expectations of $0.40. Meanwhile, revenue totaled $5.02 billion, compared with analyst expectations of $6 billion.<\/p>\n

Goldman Sachs noted how SMCI fell short of its Q1 earnings guidance as customer deliveries were pushed into the next quarter.<\/p>\n

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“SMCI’s F1Q26 EPS of $0.35 missed guidance for $0.40-$0.52 on a previously announced revenue miss driven by deliveries pushed from F1Q to F2Q as customers upgrade their designs. F2Q26 guidance mixed, with a doubling of revenue qoq offset by a ~300 bps sequential decline in gross margins.” -Goldman Sachs analysts in an investor note.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The firm has a Sell rating on the stock owing to long-term profitability concerns in a competitive AI server market.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bank of America has an Underperform rating on the stock with a price target of $34. According to the analysts, SMCI’s competitive advantages lies in its large manufacturing capacity and its capability to ship thousands of liquid-cooled racks every month.<\/p>\n

Even then, the analysts warn that with the AI server landscape becoming more competitive by the day, bigger deals often comes with tighter margins.<\/p>\n

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“However, as we have highlighted in the past, the AI server market is very competitive and large deals typically come with lower margins as it’s a competitive bidding process.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI) designs and manufactures high-performance server and storage solutions for data centers, cloud computing, AI, and edge computing worldwide.<\/p>\n

While we acknowledge the potential of SMCI as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you’re looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock<\/b><\/a>. READ NEXT: 10 Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street<\/a> and 10 AI Stocks Investors Are Watching<\/a><\/strong> Disclosure: None.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI) is one of the Best AI Stocks to Buy under $50. This AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,9499,289,290,136041,18,20366,19,1297,17,54417,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-265703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-infrastructure","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-competitive-advantages","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-goldman-sachs","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-inc","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-super-micro-computer","19":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115832948133079255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}