Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more

Supermicro has revised its revenue forecast downwards by a couple of billion dollars, but insisted it’s nothing to worry about. The company on Thursday issued an update on its business ahead of the Q1 FY 2026 results it will deliver on November 4th. The scary part was hidden in the document’s second bullet point, which reads …

[Pascal Monett]

"a couple of billion dollars"

Hey, what's a billion bucks these days ? Barely enough to keep Trump off your back, so . . .

[Michael Hoffmann]

I know little to nothing about buying and selling shares, so can someone kindly provide a brief explanation why the stock *only* dropped from $52 to $48?

In my ignorance I'd expect panic selling and the stock dropping 50% or even more.

Is this where automatic stops kicks in, so that this drop was "as low as it could got before algorithms put a stop to it"?

That said, reading this about Supermicro makes me sad. As I'd said long ago, they used to make some absolutely amazing and most of all stable kit. They never chased the overclocking crowd, but rather the "let's set a world record in uptime" crowd.