Editor’s Note: Former tech executive and angel investor Jeff Brown – picked Bitcoin before it jumped as high as 52,400%, Tesla before it jumped as high as 2,150%, and Nvidia before it jumped as high as 32,000%. Today, he’ll show you how to claim a stake in Elon Musk’s upcoming IPO – BEFORE the company goes public. Click here to see the details or read more below. 

Dear Reader, 

Last week, while the world watched Artemis and tracked tensions with Iran… 

Elon Musk’s team quietly filed paperwork with the SEC. 

Not just any paperwork. 

The confidential filing for what’s set to be the largest IPO in history.

Under SEC rules, the public filing could be released any day now. 

And when it drops, the frenzy begins. 

Bloomberg said the company could seek a valuation of over $1.75 trillion. 

That would make it bigger than Saudi Aramco… bigger than any tech IPO ever… bigger than anything Wall Street has ever seen. 

CNBC is calling it “the big market event of 2026.” 

The New York Times says it will “unleash gushers of cash.” 

And what most people don’t know is… 

You don’t have to wait for the IPO. 

There’s a way to claim your stake TODAY.

Before the public filing drops… 

Before millions of investors flood in… 

Starting with as little as $500. 

See how to get positioned before the announcement.

We have so much to look forward to, 

Jeff Brown
Founder & CEO, Brownstone Research 

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Micron Is Up 68%This Year.

Most people are still processing this as a momentum trade. It’s not. What’s happened with Micron over the past several months is something closer to a fundamental re-rating – the kind that doesn’t reverse cleanly when sentiment shifts, because the underlying math keeps printing higher numbers every quarter. 

MU is up roughly 68% year-to-date. It hit a fresh 52-week high of $506.99 on April 26. And the calls volume has been abnormally elevated – nearly 17x average daily volume in the most recent session, with calls outpacing puts by a significant margin. The tape isn’t confused about direction. It’s arguing about how far. 

What Changed

High-bandwidth memory is sold out. Not soft-allocated. Not pending confirmation. Micron’s CEO Sanjay Mehrotra stated the company’s entire 2026 HBM supply – including HBM4 – is already completely sold out. That’s a statement no cyclical memory company has ever been able to make with a straight face. It reflects a structural scarcity that didn’t exist before AI accelerators made HBM a critical bottleneck in data center buildouts. 

The fiscal Q2 2026 results made that scarcity tangible. Total revenue hit a record $23.8 billion, up 196% from the year-ago period, blowing past management’s own forecast of $18.7 billion. The Cloud Memory Business Unit – where HBM sits – generated $7.7 billion alone, up 163% year-over-year and accelerating from 100% growth just one quarter earlier. Earnings per share soared 756% to $12.07 for the quarter. 

For context: Q1 FY2026 revenue had already come in at $13.64 billion, up 57% year-over-year with a 66% gross margin. The sequential acceleration from Q1 to Q2 is what started the institutional re-rating conversation in earnest. 

The forward guide is what really gets attention. Management guided Q3 FY2026 total revenue to approximately $33.5 billion – representing a year-over-year growth rate of roughly 260%.At a forward P/E of around 8x and a PEG ratio of just 0.26, the stock is cheaper than the broader S&P 500 on an earnings-adjusted basis. That’s the part people skip. 

The HBM4 Angle

This isn’t just about selling more of the same product at higher prices. At NVIDIA GTC in March, Micron announced it had begun mass shipping HBM4 36GB 12H stacks – memory delivering 2.8 TB/s of bandwidth, a 2.3x increase over HBM3E with 20% better power efficiency. These chips are designed for NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform. The relationship is architectural, not transactional. 

The market for data center HBM was worth $35 billion in 2025. Micron’s own projections suggest it could nearly triple to $100 billion annually by 2028. The Wall Street consensus price target sits around $533, against a forward P/E of roughly 8x. Rosenblatt and KeyBanc have targets as high as $600, based on $40 billion annual free cash flow potential in a bull scenario. 

Options Positioning and What It’s Saying

Unusual call activity has been the dominant story in MU’s options tape all month. The 30-day implied volatility came in around 71.85% as of late April – elevated but not at panic levels, which is interesting. That suggests the options market is pricing ongoing event risk without a specific catalyst looming. It’s structural positioning, not event hedging. 

On April 20, a notable block appeared – 1,870 December 2026 put contracts at the $420 strike, executed at a $75 premium when the stock was trading near $464. That’s a deep out-of-the-money hedge, likely institutional, covering against a supply normalization scenario in the second half of the year. 

Bull / Bear / Neutral Framework

• Bull case: HBM4 yield ramp holds, NVIDIA Rubin demand exceeds current forecasts, and Q3 revenue prints above the $33.5 billion guide. A call spread in a 60–90 day expiry captures the move with defined downside. 
• Bear case: Supply normalization begins earlier than expected as SK Hynix and Samsung ramp competing HBM4 capacity, pressuring ASPs. A bear put spread in December expiry – similar to the institutional flow noted above – provides defined-risk downside exposure without shorting the stock outright. 
• Neutral / range trade: For traders who believe MU consolidates near current levels before the next catalyst, a short strangle or iron condor outside the recent range monetizes the elevated IV environment while the stock digests recent gains. 

The risk worth acknowledging: insider selling has been notable, with approximately $53.1 million in shares sold over the past three months and no reported purchases. That doesn’t break the thesis, but it’s a data point. Insiders aren’t always early, and they’re certainly not infallible on timing – but it’s something to fold into position sizing rather than ignore. 

Micron used to be the company you bought when memory prices bottomed and sold when they peaked. The question now is whether the HBM4 architecture cycle is long enough – and deep enough – to break that pattern for good. 

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