Why Astera Labs Stock Surged on Monday

Investors were clearly looking forward to the company's earnings release after market close on Tuesday.Semiconductor stock Astera Labs (ALAB +10.49%) notched a nearly 10% price gain on Monday, the day before it's slated to publish its latest earnings release. Optimism about the numbers the company will post, plus news of expansion abroad, helped drive that near-double-digit lift.Researching how to growThat morning, California-based Astera announced that it had opened an advanced research and development (R& ...