Key Highlights
- MRVL shares advanced 2.2% to $131.28, achieving back-to-back record closing highs for the first time since January 2025
- Amazon’s homegrown AI processor division, now at $20B in yearly revenue, strengthens Marvell’s position
- Earlier 2025 concerns about losing the Amazon Trainium design contract had sent MRVL plummeting over 50% to approximately $50
- Barclays forecasts Marvell’s optical-networking segment could see up to 90% revenue expansion this year and beyond
- B. Riley boosted MRVL’s price objective to $156 from $135, keeping its Buy recommendation intact
Marvell Technology has staged a remarkable turnaround after enduring significant turbulence throughout the past year. The semiconductor company’s shares settled at $131.28 on Monday, gaining 2.2% and marking consecutive record closing levels for the first time since the beginning of 2025, based on Dow Jones Market Data.
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The recovery narrative is particularly dramatic. In early 2025, MRVL experienced a brutal selloff exceeding 50% from peak levels, tumbling toward the $50 mark following speculation that the company might be edged out of designing Amazon’s upcoming Trainium AI chip architecture.
Those concerns have now largely evaporated. Market analysts are showing growing conviction that Marvell will maintain its strategic role within Amazon’s artificial intelligence chip ecosystem.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy disclosed last week that the e-commerce giant’s internally developed AI processor division has already crossed the $20 billion annual revenue threshold, with intentions to expand third-party sales of these processors. This revelation provided investors with renewed conviction in Marvell’s prospects.
KeyBanc analyst John Vinh maintains an Overweight stance with a $130 price objective on the shares. He anticipates Marvell’s upcoming quarterly earnings release, scheduled for early June, will modestly surpass consensus projections.
“We expect Marvell to post slightly better results and slightly higher guidance, driven by continued outsized data center demand across both traditional and AI workloads, including hyperscaler AI ASICs (Trainium) and optical networking,” Vinh wrote in a Sunday research note.
Optical Technology Provides Additional Momentum
Apart from the Amazon relationship, Marvell is experiencing another tailwind from its optical-networking division. As artificial intelligence data centers expand in scale and sophistication, they require optical transceivers to transmit data with greater speed and efficiency, transforming electrical signals into optical communications.
Marvell produces the digital signal processors embedded within these transceivers — a specialized yet critical component of AI infrastructure development. Barclays analyst Tom O’Malley elevated MRVL to Overweight status last week, estimating the company’s optical-networking revenue could surge by as much as 90% over the current year and the next.
Such explosive growth estimates command investor attention. Optical networking has emerged as one of the more discussed subsectors within the broader AI investment landscape.
Analyst Targets Climbing Upward
B. Riley increased its price forecast for MRVL to $156 from $135 on Monday, reaffirming its Buy stance. The firm pointed to Taiwan Semiconductor’s March sales figures as providing encouraging implications for Marvell’s first-quarter and early second-quarter performance.
TSMC’s supply chain metrics offered analysts enhanced visibility into semiconductor demand industry-wide, and the takeaway for Marvell proved encouraging.
Marvell’s stock has more than doubled over the trailing twelve-month period, despite the sharp decline witnessed earlier in 2025.
The early June earnings announcement will serve as the next critical checkpoint. Analysts will be scrutinizing commentary regarding both the Trainium partnership and optical-networking revenue trajectory.
B. Riley’s updated $156 target exceeds the current trading level, suggesting additional upside potential if the current momentum persists.
