Why Super Micro Computer Inc. (SMCI) Went Up On Monday?

We recently published a list of AI Stocks Dominate Monday’s Top 10 Performers. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI) stands against other AI stocks that dominate Monday’s top performers.

The stock market finished mixed on Monday as investors remained cautious over the escalating trade tensions globally, with President Donald Trump threatening to slap China with another 50-percent tariff if the latter does not withdraw a countermeasure.

The Dow Jones declined by 0.91 percent, while the S&P 500 dropped by 0.23 percent. In contrast, the tech-heavy Nasdaq inched up by 0.10 percent.

Meanwhile, 10 companies, predominantly in the Artificial Intelligence sector, bucked an overall market pessimism, posting strong gains during the day.

In this article, we have identified Monday’s top performers and detailed the reasons behind their gains.

To come up with the list, we considered only the stocks with $2 billion market capitalization and $5 million in trading volume.

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Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI)

Super Micro snapped a two-day losing streak on Monday, ending 10.66 percent higher at $33 apiece as investors resorted to bargain-hunting on stocks riding the AI boom amid the ongoing global trade tensions.

SMCI traded higher in line with its quantum computing counterparts IonQ Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) and Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ:RGTI), as well as other AI stocks.

In recent news, SMCI partnered with Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Weka to develop a new optimized storage server for high-performance software-defined storage workloads.

The project is expected to “allow customers to benefit from NVDA’s innovations in both CPUs and DPUs.”

The server uses an NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip with 144 Arm Neoverse V2 cores which enable high-performance I/O for software-defined storage workloads.

“We have demonstrated that the system can fully unleash the system’s PCIe Gen5 performance SSD bandwidth with linear scalability. Supermicro continues to bring to market the most advanced and optimized storage solutions available,” SMCI said.

Overall, SMCI ranks 7th on our list of AI stocks that dominate Monday’s top performers. While we acknowledge the potential of SMCI as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than SMCI but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.