Dell stock jumped on Monday after President Donald Trump urged Americans to buy a Dell and said founder Michael Dell’s $6.25 billion donation to Trump Accounts would be repaid.

Trump made the comments while promoting the new Trump Accounts savings program, and they briefly extended a rally that has tracked his stock endorsements all year.

A Familiar Pattern of Endorsements

Shares of Dell Technologies (DELL) jumped as much as 10% to an intraday high near $429.35 after the remarks, adding more than $15.8 billion in market value.

The pop followed a script investors know well. Trump first told a Georgia crowd to buy a Dell in February, then repeated the line at a May White House event that lifted the shares to a record.

“Go out and buy a Dell. We’ll get them that money back one way or another. I also want to thank Micron,” Trump said during the opening bell on Wall Street to launch Trump Accounts.

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The timing has drawn scrutiny. Trump’s account bought $1 million to $5 million of Dell stock on February 10, nine days before that first endorsement, part of a trading record that broke with blind-trust norms.

Ethics experts have called his buying and praising of the stock a conflict of interest. Dell has more than tripled since February, one of several Trump-promoted US stocks to rally on his words.

AI Demand Drives the Rally

The gains rest on more than politics. In its most recent quarter, Dell’s AI server revenue reached $16.1 billion, up 757% from a year earlier, according to a company filing.

Management has since raised its full-year AI server target to about $60 billion, and its order backlog tops $50 billion. That record earnings report fed the run. Around the same time, the Pentagon awarded Dell a $9.7 billion, five-year IT contract.

What Could Stall the Dell Stock Rally

Still, the rally has outrun the fundamentals for some analysts. Truist’s Matthew Niknam kept a hold rating even after lifting his price target to $360, noting Dell trades far above its long-run average near nine times earnings.

Margins tell a similar story. Dell’s gross margin fell from about 21% to under 18% in a year as it leaned on costly Nvidia chips and scarce memory. Broader memory supply glut fears have since hit chipmakers, including Micron.

The stock is whipsawing, too. Dell dropped almost 8% on July 2, and recent AI bubble warnings from investor Michael Burry have unsettled the trade. Whether AI demand can justify the price may come down to Dell’s next earnings report.

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