Prediction: These 3 AI Stocks Could Be the Next Big Winners

Prediction: These 3 AI Stocks Could Be the Next Big Winners

Vandita Jadeja

Wed, August 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM GMT+3 4 min read

Quick Read

• Micron (MU) trades at just 10x projected 2027 EPS on its path to $1,200, while Broadcom (AVGO) holds $100B in AI bookings locked through 2028.

• CoreWeave's $104B backlog and July GPU pricing up 25% make a $150 target plausible, despite burning $5.74B in free cash flow.

• All three bull cases hinge on AI capex compounding, memory and accelerator supply staying tight, and current valuation multiples holding into 2027.

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Artificial intelligence has reshaped the semiconductor and cloud-infrastructure landscape at a pace few investors imagined two years ago.

Three names sit squarely in the money flow: a memory maker riding structural shortages, a custom-silicon powerhouse selling accelerators to every hyperscaler, and a pure-play AI cloud stitching NVIDIA GPUs into contracted revenue. Here is the round-number bull case for each heading into 2027.

Micron's Path to $1,200

Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) has been the AI trade's biggest surprise. Shares are up 219.19% year to date and 674.9% over the past year, closing at $910.43. Fiscal Q3 revenue reached $41.46 billion, up 345.72% year over year, with non-GAAP EPS of $25.11 extending a seven-quarter beat streak. Q4 guidance calls for $50 billion in revenue and $31 in EPS.

CEO Sanjay Mehrotra told investors the 16 Strategic Customer Agreements now underwrite roughly $100 billion in minimum contracted revenue with floor-price margins "well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle."

HBM4 has already generated over $1 billion in revenue, and management expects DRAM and NAND supply to remain tight beyond calendar 2027. A run to $1,200 requires roughly 32% upside on a fiscal 2027 EPS base that could plausibly clear $120. That implies a forward multiple near 10x, far below the S&P 500's roughly 22x.

Broadcom's Path to $450

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Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) closed at $358.76, up 22.92% over the past year. Q2 AI semiconductor revenue reached $10.80 billion, up 143%, and Q3 guidance calls for $16 billion, up over 200% year over year. CEO Hock Tan reiterated a fiscal 2027 AI target in excess of $100 billion and said bookings visibility "runs all the way to 2028."

With Q2 free cash flow of $10.26 billion and adjusted EBITDA at 69% of revenue, a move to $450 (roughly 25% upside) requires only modest multiple expansion if AI revenue compounds toward the $100 billion goal.

Custom accelerator commitments from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta anchor that trajectory, with 10 gigawatts of shipments planned in 2027.

CoreWeave's Path to $150

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) is the speculative kicker. Shares trade at $86.25 against a Wall Street consensus target of $144.17. Q2 revenue jumped 112.32% to $2.575 billion, backlog reached $104 billion, and management flagged another $25 billion in early Q3 commitments. Full-year revenue guidance was raised to $12.4 to $13.2 billion with an exit run-rate of $18.5 to $19.5 billion.

CEO Michael Intrator said "demand continues to exceed supply across sectors, geographies, and generations of infrastructure." July SKU pricing rose roughly 25%, and newly signed contracts carry contribution margins 5 to 10 percentage points above recent deals. Nasdaq-100 inclusion adds passive flows.

A push to $150 (roughly 74% upside) would put price-to-sales near 8x on the guided exit run rate, aggressive but plausible for a hypergrowth infrastructure story. Deeply negative free cash flow of -$5.74 billion and $640 million in Q2 interest expense remain the biggest hurdles.

Bottom Line on the AI Trio

Micron to $1,200, Broadcom to $450, and CoreWeave to $150 are stretch goals, not promises. Each requires AI capex to keep compounding, memory and accelerator supply to stay tight, and multiples to hold.

Returns at these levels should not be expected every year, but we have laid out the blueprint for how each could deliver outsized 2027 gains (and if you want the pattern that showed up in the biggest tech winners years before their runs, we put it in a free playbook here).

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