Sandisk $SNDK made a rapid 8% move into the close after being added to the MSCI World Index as part of the August rebalance. The addition takes effect September 1, so the late-day move was likely driven by passive index buying into today’s close.

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SanDisk $SNDK resumed with an Overweight at JPMorgan JPMorgan analyst Harlan Sur initiated coverage of SanDisk with an Overweight rating and $2,250 price target following a period of restriction. JPMorgan's rating on the stock prior to the restriction was a Neutral. SanDisk is "uniquely positioned" to benefit from the "structural inflection" in NAND demand driven by "rapid growth" in AI inference, the analyst tells investors in a research note. JPMorgan says the the new business model framework announced at the investor day has "structurally reset" SanDisk's margin profile higher and "materially reduced cyclicality."

SanDisk $SNDK says HBF could materially reduce GPU requirements for AI inference. 8x capex efficiency 1 HBF GPU ran the same model that required 8 HBM GPUs. 2x GPU efficiency 4 HBF GPUs matched the token output of 8 HBM GPUs. Based on internal testing.

SanDisk $SNDK HBF simulation delivers the same 12.8 TB/s memory bandwidth as HBM, but with 4TB of capacity per GPU vs. 192GB. For a 960GB Qwen3 workload, HBF needed just 1–4 GPUs vs. 8 with HBM.