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#海力士业绩创纪录但不及预期，存储股剧烈波动 To be honest, I think this time it's not that the performance collapsed, but that the market expectations were ridiculously high. The long-term upward logic for storage hasn't been broken at all, but the short-term sentiment-driven valuation crash has just begun. The stock price rose two to three times in the first half of the year, already overextending the earnings expectations for the next two quarters. Now, even if it falls short by just 5%, the market has to crash to digest it. So don't rush to bottom-fish, and don't outright deny the industry logic; once the sentiment is digested, it will slowly rebound. Honestly, what surprised me about this earnings report is: In Q2, revenue was 79.32 trillion KRW, a year-on-year surge of 257%; operating profit was 60.54 trillion KRW, up 5.57 times year-on-year, with single-quarter profit exceeding the entire 2025 annual total, and an operating margin of 76%, which is more than ten points higher than TSMC. But the market expectations were even more exaggerated—analysts unanimously expected revenue of 84 trillion and profit of 64 trillion, so the actual 5% shortfall became a so-called "explosive disappointment." The root causes of missing expectations are clear: first, nearly half of SK Hynix's revenue comes from long-term supply agreements with HBM prices locked in advance, so it didn't benefit much from the Q2 surge in spot prices for general DRAM and NAND; second, the net profit included a one-time gain from selling Kioxia shares, and after deducting that, the core business profit elasticity isn't as large as the market imagines. So the long-term upward logic remains intact, but don't rush to bottom-fish in the short term; it's safer to wait for sentiment to stabilize before positioning.