Lenovo shares surge 82%: Morgan Stanley sees huge potential
7/10/2026, 02:32 PM • Евгения Слив

American investment giant Morgan Stanley has taken an unprecedented step by radically revising its forecast for the shares of the Chinese technology conglomerate Lenovo. Analysts upgraded the stock rating to "overweight" and more than doubled the target price, raising the bar from fourteen to thirty Hong Kong dollars. The fundamental driver of such optimistic expectations has been the explosive demand for artificial intelligence solutions, which has led to a structural transformation of the global computer memory market. Unlike historical cycles characterized by delayed purchases in anticipation of falling prices, the current situation dictates new rules: customers are willing to tolerate high component costs, allowing Lenovo to successfully pass increased expenses on to end buyers without the slightest damage to its own profitability.
The company's financial results have already begun to reflect this positive dynamics: over the past two months, Lenovo's quotes have confidently grown by eighty-two percent, completely ignoring the overall drop in the Hang Seng index. Bank management emphasizes that supply chain checks confirm the preservation of favorable market conditions at least until the second half of next year. A key role in Lenovo's new investment strategy is played by the infrastructure solutions division, which accumulates a portfolio of AI hardware projects for a colossal sum of twenty-one billion dollars. It is this segment that should become the main engine of growth, providing about thirty-five percent of the group's total profit by the twenty twenty-nine financial year.
Morgan Stanley experts are confident that the transformation of Lenovo's business model opens up unique opportunities for investors to profit from the wave of the technological revolution. Analysts' earnings per share forecasts for the next three years exceed the market consensus by approximately twenty percent, which is based on more aggressive and justified assumptions regarding margin expansion. If previously Lenovo was perceived exclusively as a stable but low-margin manufacturer of personal computers, now the company is confidently positioning itself as one of the key beneficiaries of the global transition to the era of artificial intelligence. The ability to generate free cash flow from the classic PC business allows the corporation to finance ambitious expansion into the high-performance computing sector, creating a reliable foundation for long-term shareholder value creation.
