KB Securities: We estimate the DRAM process technology gap between Samsung Electronics and China's CXMT at 5-7 years on a mass-production basis.
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KB Securities: At Korea Premium Week 2026, Samsung Electronics projected that HBM will account for more than a third of global DRAM wafer production capacity by 2027.
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KB Securities: the spread of Al agents should structurally increase memory usage across Al data centers-from CPUs and GPUs to HBM, DDR5, and eSSD-as they require far more frequent and sustained inference workloads than conventional generative Al.
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KB HOME $KBH Q3’26 EARNINGS HIGHLIGHTS
🔹 Revenue: $1.3B; -20% YoY
🔹 EPS: $1.05 (Est. $0.88) 🟢; -35% YoY
🔹 Housing Gross Profit Margin: 16.5%; -170 bps YoY
🔹 Homes Delivered: 2,732; -19% YoY
Affirms FY26 Guide:
🔹 Deliveries: 10,500-11,000 homes
🔹 Housing Revenues: $4.90B-$5.10B
🔹 Housing Gross Profit Margin: 16.0%-16.2%
🔹 SG&A as % of Revenues: 11.5% to 11.7%
🔹 Effective Tax Rate: ~23%
Q4 Guide:
🔹 Deliveries: 3,000-3,500 homes
🔹 Housing Revenues: $1.45B-$1.65B
🔹 Housing Gross Profit Margin: 16.0%-16.6%
🔹 SG&A as % of Revenues: 10.3% to 10.9%
🔹 Effective Tax Rate: ~26%
🔹 Ending Community Count: 270-275
Segment Net Revenue:
🔹 Homebuilding: $1.3B
🔹 Financial Services: $4.8M
Other Q3 Metrics:
🔹 Adjusted Housing Gross Profit Margin: 16.8%; -210 bps YoY
🔹 Homebuilding Operating Income Margin: 5.2%; -290 bps YoY
🔹 Net Orders: 2,604; -12% YoY
🔹 Backlog Value: $2.1B; +3% YoY
Key Updates:
🔸 Housing gross profit margin guidance for Q4 and the full year assumes no inventory-related charges
Comments:
🔸 “conditions weakening since our June earnings report. Higher mortgage interest rates have further pressured affordability”
🔸 “we continue to expect our full-year deliveries, housing revenues and margins to be within the ranges we last provided.”
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KB Securities: with higher HBM4 shipments, we expect Samsung Electronic's HBM market share to jump from 33% in 2Q26 to ~40% in 4026.
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KB Securities: the allocation of AI infrastructure spend toward memory is projected to jump from 40% (2026E) to 57% (2027E).
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KB Securities sees FCF for hyperscalers rebounding starting 2028 on higher cloud utilization, pricing, and margins.
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KB Securities outlook on $DRAM $SKHY $MU
“Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expected to escape from an extreme undervaluation phase.”
Hyperscalers’ AI infrastructure investment next year is projected at $1.3 trillion, up 60% from this year.
Memory’s share of AI infrastructure investment is expected to rise from 14% in 2025 → 40% in 2026 → 57% in 2027. TrendForce sees it even higher at 68%.
“The current extreme undervaluation could lead to a powerful re-rating.”
Over the next three years both companies’ earnings could hit all-time highs, and large-scale shareholder-return policies are expected to continue.
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148 KB.
That’s the entire download for this FPS.
No textures.
No models.
No sound files.
No launcher.
No install.
Everything is generated at runtime from ~4,500 lines of JavaScript.
Wave survival, headshots, hitscan, tracers, sprint fatigue.
Runs in a browser tab.
All locally built on one DGX Spark with Qwen3.8 Flash Next/EXL3
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BREAKING: KB Securities expects memory to rise to 57% by 2027.