Wall Street Turns Bullish on Marvell (MRVL) Stock Right Before Earnings

TLDR

• Marvell stock rose around 3–5.8% Tuesday ahead of its fiscal Q1 earnings report due Wednesday.
• Susquehanna raised its price target to $230 — the highest on Wall Street — up from $100, citing AI and custom chip strength.
• Stifel also lifted its target to $210 from $140, expecting Marvell to beat its $2.40B revenue estimate.
• Analyst upside is tied to Amazon’s revised capex of ~$218B and a new Anthropic-AWS compute deal worth up to 5 GW.
• Marvell’s 800G optical transceiver shipments are expected to double in 2026, following a doubling in 2025.

Marvell Technology (MRVL) stock jumped as much as 5.8% Tuesday morning as traders moved in ahead of the company’s fiscal first-quarter earnings report, due after market close Wednesday. The stock was up around 3% later in the session, with a year-to-date gain of 131.3%.

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The move was driven by a wave of bullish analyst commentary, with at least two major firms raising price targets on the stock in the days leading up to earnings.

Susquehanna Financial analyst Christopher Rolland issued the most eye-catching call, lifting his price target to $230 from $100 — the highest on Wall Street — while keeping a Positive rating. That new target implies roughly 17% upside from where the stock was trading at the time of the note.

Rolland’s thesis centers on strength in two areas: Marvell’s Inphi optical interconnect business and its custom XPU silicon work. He said field checks were “generally constructive,” and pointed to Amazon’s revised 2026 capital expenditure budget — now estimated at around $218 billion, up from $200 billion — as a tailwind.

He also flagged a new agreement between Anthropic and Amazon for up to 5 gigawatts of compute, calling it a positive read-through for Marvell’s Trainium-related business. The one caveat: supply constraints on 3nm chips could limit near-term upside in fiscal 2027.

Stifel Also Raises Target

On Friday, Stifel analyst Tore Svanberg raised his price target to $210 from $140, keeping a Buy rating. Svanberg expects Marvell to beat his April quarter revenue estimate of $2.40 billion, with the likely driver being Data Center, which made up 74% of revenue in the January quarter.

The data center segment has become the engine of the business, and both analysts see that continuing. Marvell’s custom chip work — building application-specific silicon for hyperscale customers — has become a key part of that story.

Optical Shipments on Track to Double

On the optical side, Rolland noted that read-throughs from 800G transceiver module makers have been strong. Shipments are expected to double in 2026, after already doubling in 2025.

That kind of back-to-back growth in a single product category is hard to ignore heading into an earnings print.

The broader semiconductor sector also had a strong day Tuesday, which added to the momentum around Marvell. Sentiment across AI infrastructure names was generally positive.

Marvell’s current market cap sits at $171.9 billion. Average daily trading volume is around 26 million shares.

The company reports fiscal Q1 2026 earnings after market close on Wednesday, May 28.

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