Had You Invested $1,000 in Micron or Western Digital 10 Years Ago, Here’s How Much You’d Have Today

Quick Read A $1,000 investment in Micron Technology (MU) a decade ago would be worth roughly $29,919 today—nearly 10x the S&P 500’s return—though it required white-knuckling through brutal drawdowns, and Western Digital (WDC) crushed it with a staggering 522% one-year return driven by the Sandisk spinoff and AI-fueled HDD demand Micron has transformed from a volatile memory commodity play into AI infrastructure’s critical gatekeeper—as the only U.S.-based maker of high-bandwidth memory with 56% gross m ...