Lenovo Stock Doubles in May on AI Server Boom—Best Month in 27 Years

Lenovo’s inventory surged as much as 31% on Friday and has now gained 109% in Could—its greatest month-to-month efficiency since 1999.

Shares of the world’s largest PC maker have greater than doubled this month, making it the highest performer on the Cling Seng Index year-to-date, up 159%.

The rally wasn’t random. Lenovo’s This fall earnings showed quarterly income of $21.6 billion—up 27% year-on-year and the quickest quarterly development price in 5 years. Internet revenue hit $521 million, up 479% from $90 million a yr earlier. When an organization Lenovo’s dimension practically sextuples its quarterly revenue, it forces the market to rethink its value targets completely.

The engine behind it’s the Infrastructure Options Group, or ISG—Lenovo’s division that builds AI-optimized servers, storage methods, and knowledge heart merchandise for giant enterprise shoppers and cloud suppliers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. ISG posted report quarterly income of $5.6 billion, up 37% year-on-year, and crossed $19.2 billion for the total fiscal yr.

Throughout the entire firm, AI-related income grew 84% year-on-year and now accounts for 38% of Lenovo’s complete quarterly gross sales. A couple of greenback in three that Lenovo earns at the moment traces again to AI. Goldman Sachs more than doubled its value goal on Lenovo following the outcomes.

Then got here Dell. On Thursday, Dell Applied sciences reported Q1 FY2027 income of $43.84 billion, up 88% year-on-year, and raised its full-year AI server income steerage to $60 billion. Dell’s AI server backlog now stands at $51.3 billion. Traders learn these numbers, checked out Lenovo, and purchased.

“AI server development is clearly a driver, with demand now spreading from hyperscalers to enterprise for AI inferencing demand, which advantages typical server OEMs like Lenovo and Dell,” Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Steven Tseng said.

That shift from hyperscalers—the Amazons and Googles—to common enterprise corporations is the important thing growth right here. For 2 years, the AI infrastructure buildout was concentrated round Nvidia chips and a handful of specialised gamers. Lenovo and Dell are the businesses that assemble the racks, qualify the {hardware} configurations, and ship compute-ready methods to companies that need AI with out constructing it from scratch.

Lenovo can also be nonetheless operating its PC enterprise properly. The Clever Units Group posted $14.6 billion in This fall income, up 24% year-on-year, with Lenovo holding a 24.4% international PC market share—the widest lead over its nearest rival in 15 years. The AI PC wave is contributing. However server infrastructure is what moved the needle on the inventory.

The distinction with the remainder of Hong Kong tech makes the rally sharper. The Cling Seng Tech Index has fallen greater than 15% this yr, weighed down by web platforms bleeding margins on AI {hardware} spending. Lenovo is within the reverse place—promoting the infrastructure, not shopping for it.

CEO Yuanqing Yang called FY2026 one of the best yr in Lenovo’s 40-year historical past and set a goal of $100 billion in annual income inside two years. Full-year income got here in at $83.1 billion, up 20%—the primary time the corporate has crossed the $80 billion mark.

ISG enters FY2027 with an AI server pipeline exceeding $21 billion in dedicated demand, although how briskly Lenovo can ship in opposition to it depends upon securing GPU allocations from Nvidia, which stays the first provide constraint throughout the whole server trade.