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Super Micro Earnings Double As Server Sales Soar

Super Micro Computer (SMCI) easily topped Wall Street fiscal first quarter 2015 profit and revenue estimates. The maker of storage and cloud computing servers also guided Q2 forecasts higher. Earnings per share more than doubled to 46 cents from 22 cents a year ago, topping views by 8 cents a share. It was the fourth quarter in a row it’s topped earnings estimates. That snapped a three-quarter string of decelerating — but still robust — EPS

Super Micro Computer Rises As Analyst Hikes Forecast

Shares of server maker Super Micro Computer (SMCI) rose more than 10% on the stock market today after a meeting with management convinced one analyst to upgrade the stock. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers lifted his rating to buy from hold and hiked his 2015 and 2016 estimates, based on several factors. In a research note Friday, he wrote that Super Micro has room to expand in the traditional x86 server market, due to “the potential for