

SNDK's expanding QLC SSD portfolio targets AI storage demand with cost-efficient enterprise solutions, backed by multi-year supply deals and rising data center revenues.

FlexShares US Quality Large Cap Index Fund is reaffirmed as a 'buy' for its balanced exposure to quality, momentum, and value factors. QLC modestly outperformed SPY by 1.06% total return since I last covered it in early January 2026, offering differentiated but familiar mega-cap exposure. The fund maintains a low 0.25% expense ratio, decent liquidity, and a 1.01% trailing dividend yield, emphasizing capital appreciation.

Uncertainty over the Washington-Tehran deal, a pullback in AI stocks and a hawkish Fed outlook are reinforcing the case for quality ETFs as a defensive play.

Launched on 09/23/2015, the FlexShares US Quality Large Cap ETF (QLC) is a smart beta exchange traded fund offering broad exposure to the Style Box - Large Cap Blend category of the market.

The FlexShares US Quality Large Cap ETF (QLC) was launched on September 23, 2015, and is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to offer broad exposure to the Large Cap Blend segment of the US equity market.

SNDK's QLC Stargate is set for Q4 FY26 shipments, targeting AI data-center storage demand and adding a new growth path beyond TLC SSDs.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KIOXIA has introduced Value-Oriented QLC-based EG7 Series SSDs.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kioxia Corporation today announced KIOXIA EG7 Series SSDs, the first client solution to adopt Kioxia's BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 QLC technology.