My first PC, purchased in 1996, came with a Seagate hard disk drive (HDD) with a capacity of approximately 1.2 GB. The technology has made such a massive jump since then that an HDD of that capacity almost sounds ridiculous. That reminds me that you could install an operating system on that thing and be left with a lot of space for applications. Yet today, a huge number of popular applications bundle an internet browser with them and pretend to be real desktop applications. They take up hundreds of MB, a ...

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AI驱动趋势对股票表现的影响 - AI热潮推动多只股票大幅上涨 Palantir Technologies自2023年初以来累计上涨2500% 其中2025年单年涨幅达1207% [2] - Seagate Technology成为2025年标普500指数中表现最佳的股票 年内涨幅达1214% 超越Palantir的同期表现 [3][7] - Western Digital作为Seagate主要竞争对手 同样受益于AI大趋势 成为今年表现最佳的股票之一 [9] 数据中心存储需求增长 - 大型科技公司正在投入数千亿美元建设数据中心和配备服务器 AI训练具有极高数据密集性特征 [5] - 近线存储需求激增 这种存储方式虽需数秒访问时间 但能低成本保存大语言模型所需的海量数据 [6] - Seagate上季度向数据中心客户出货137艾字节容量 环比增长14% 同比增长52% [8] 公司财务表现与技术优势 - Seagate2025财年收入增长39% 毛利率从234%扩大至352% 第四季度毛利率达到374% [8] - Seagate在热辅助磁记录技术方面取得领先 预计2026财年下半年量产40TB硬盘 比Western Digital早约六个月 [13] - 两家公司均通过提高单机存储容量实现毛利率扩张 但行业存在产能限制 [9] 行业前景与市场竞争 - 数据中心存储需求预计从2024年130亿美元增长至2028年230亿美元 [10] - 硬盘驱动器具有商品化特征 买家决策主要基于每TB价格 技术竞争推动新产品快速迭代 [11] - Seagate当前远期市盈率185倍 Western Digital约为14倍 两者均高于历史估值水平 [14][16] 行业周期性特征 - 存储行业具有强周期性特征 利润率扩张主要发生在需求高峰周期 [12] - 周期性股票在需求上升期通常呈现更具吸引力的盈利倍数 但需求消退时盈利可能大幅下滑 [15] - 当前估值水平可能已反映周期高点 需等待更好买入时机 [16]