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Price · 1Y
$851.69
Thesis
Seagate is one of two remaining HDD makers and the first to ship HAMR-based Mozaic drives in volume. AI training and inference generate enormous warm and cold data that economically lives on HDDs, not flash, so nearline capacity demand is structurally tied to AI buildout.
The business remains cyclical and capital-intensive, with debt to work through, but the HAMR transition is a genuine technology lead over the next several years.
Catalysts
- Mozaic HAMR capacity ramp and yield improvements
- Nearline HDD pricing discipline in a two-vendor market
- Hyperscaler capacity-tier procurement tied to AI data growth
- Margin expansion as HAMR mix increases
Recent events
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