Micron Revenue Exceeds Estimates on Improving Chip Shipments

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Micron Technology Inc., the largest U.S. maker of memory chips, rose the most in more than a year after reporting fiscal second-quarter revenue that exceeded estimates amid a rebound in chip shipments.

Sales rose 3.4 percent to $2.08 billion from $2.01 billion a year earlier, the Boise, Idaho-based company said in a statement yesterday. Analysts on average estimated revenue of $1.91 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.