AI Storage
All research in AI Storage — 2 reports.
Pure Storage, now renamed Everpure, is an all-flash storage platform company that monetizes through both hardware and subscriptions, with a market capitalization of roughly $24.0 billion. Its enterprise storage foundation is solid and it has secured hyperscaler design wins including Meta, but the stock already prices in large-scale hyperscaler replication and about 5x EV/Sales is not cheap. Rating Hold: at $72, the stock sits in an acceptable holding range, while the odds improve meaningfully only below $50.
Kioxia Holdings is a NAND/SSD memory maker spun out of Toshiba and deeply co-manufacturing with SanDisk, and one of the few pure storage plus AI-inference plays available in the Japanese market. FY2026 revenue surged to ¥2.34 trillion with explosive profit, but the same-day market cap of roughly ¥44.36 trillion implies a TTM P/E near 79x, and the profit peak rests mainly on an ASP spike rather than volume, leaving the current price above even the optimistic valuation ceiling. Rating Avoid: the operational repair is real, but the stock has priced in AI and de-cyclicalization far too early.