Micron's Insane Productivity Explosion: Revenue Per Employee Doubled to $1.7 Million in Just 9 Months
247wallst.com · Tue Sep-01 17:17:06 published · Tue Sep-01 17:20:29 alerted · alerted 3m after publish · read at 247wallst.com ↗ · earnings · mat 85
Micron Technology reported a dramatic surge in revenue per employee to $1.7 million and 84.6% gross margins driven by soaring DRAM and NAND prices and fixed cost leverage.
verdict REPRICING, direction bullish -> long MU (earnings: Micron Technology reported a dramatic surge in revenue per employee to $1.7 million and 84.6% gross margins driven by soaring DRAM and NAND prices and fixed cost leverage.)
overnight drift: long MU at close, exit next close (earnings: Micron Technology reported a dramatic surge in revenue per employee to $1.7 million and 84.6% gross margins driven by soaring DRAM and NAND prices and fixed cost leverage.) [skipped at close: stale at close-fill — wanted long, verdict now PRICED (-2.51% since close, 214m after decision), order not placed]
Signal was wrong (dominant factor). The bullish repricing call never materialized during the holding window: the trade's best unrealized was -0.03%, meaning the position was essentially never in profit — MU only declined after entry. Timing isn't the issue in the "chased the move" sense (price was already down -0.74%/-1.53% at entry, so nothing bullish had happened yet); the predicted move simply never came. The exit at -1.70% (-16.20 USD) was between the best (-0.03%) and worst (-2.93%) unrealized, so it neither salvaged the breakeven opportunity nor rode to the bottom — but with no upside ever available, no exit rule could have made this a winner. Whether the bullish thesis plays out on a longer horizon isn't determinable from this data.
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