This Storage Stock Is Now Up More Than 700% in a Year, and the AI Boom Could Push It Even Higher.

This is where heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) comes in. Seagate’s Mozaic 4+ platform can deliver up to 44 terabytes per drive, more than 30% higher capacity than its first-generation Mozaic drives, while using the same number of disks and heads. Seagate also said it began revenue shipments of Mozaic 4 in late March and expects that platform to represent a majority of HAMR exabyte shipments exiting calendar 2026.

“We are going faster than what we were thinking on the transition to HAMR,” said Seagate chief financial officer Gianluca Romano during the call.

Can the stock keep rising?

The bull case is fairly simple. Seagate has tight supply, strong demand, a higher-capacity roadmap, and pricing visibility that extends well beyond the next quarter. In addition, management said it now expects annual revenue growth of at least 20% over the next few years, up from its prior low-to-mid-teens target.

Additionally, the model is throwing off significant cash. Seagate generated $953 million of free cash flow in fiscal Q3 — its highest level in more than a decade, and reduced gross debt by about $1.1 billion through the first nine months of fiscal 2026.

Still, investors should be careful.

The stock’s market capitalization is more than $230 billion as of this writing, and the stock trades at nearly 100 times earnings. A valuation like this assumes the current boom lasts and that margins stay high as HAMR ramps.

And the company’s own filings still point to the old risks. Seagate says nearline storage sales can vary because of the timing of cloud service provider spending, product qualification cycles, and customers’ ability to source other parts needed to build data centers. In addition, if supply eventually catches demand, pricing power can fade quickly in hardware markets like Seagate’s.

So, is Seagate stock a buy?

I think the stock could keep moving higher if AI storage demand remains stronger than supply through 2027. The business momentum is undeniable, and Seagate’s HAMR roadmap gives it a tangible way to turn demand into higher capacity and better margins.

But just because there’s a chance it could keep moving higher doesn’t make the stock a buy.

After a more than 700% one-year move, I’d approach shares cautiously here. For investors who think we’re still early in the AI boom, a small position may make sense. But at this valuation, the stock needs the boom to continue with very few interruptions. After all, this is still a cyclical hardware company — even if the current cycle looks far stronger than usual.

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