Dell's stock plunged 11% on Wednesday, dragging down shares of data center equipment manufacturers such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Oracle, and Super Micro. This followed a report from Barclays analysts who downgraded Dell, HPE, and NetApp to "Equal Weight," citing overly optimistic market expectations for growth in enterprise AI spending, and the absence of a "meaningful inflection point" in actual enterprise AI adoption. They argued that current revenue growth is more driven by rising memory costs than by enterprise AI.