Company Notes

Yesterday (6/6), the shares of Maplebear, doing business as Instacart (CART; $33.78; E/W), jumped 9% after it disclosed in an 8-K filing that its Board approved a new share repurchase authorization on June 2nd of…

We raise our rating on the shares of Lyft (LYFT; $15.69) from Equal-Weight to Outperform and establish a $20 price target after attending the company’s first-ever Investor Day yesterday in New York. We think management…

We think the FQ1 (Apr) print and guidance from ChargePoint (CHPT; $1.73; E/W) demonstrated meaningful financial progress off the company’s revamped strategy and enhanced focus on resource management, which was established under CEO Rick Wilmer…

We are raising our F2024/F2025E (Jun) EPS for Seagate (STX; $91.85; E/W) from $0.93/$5.40 to $1.10/$5.85 after the company’s CFO Gianluca Romano provided a positive update at an investor conference earlier today. Specifically, STX now…

The shares of Mobileye Global (MBLY; $26.46; O/P) have retreated 19% since early-April (vs. +1% for the S&P 500) as the Street seems suddenly concerned with the company’s longer-term competitive positioning around autonomous vehicle (AV)…

We think news flow over the weekend out of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD; $161.57; NR) and NVIDIA (NVDA; $1,130.04; NR) provides further support to the idea that Amkor Technology (AMKR; $32.00; E/W) is well positioned…

Yesterday, CommScope (COMM; $1.49) announced that it was selected as the “highest and best bidder” to acquire Casa Systems’ (CASSQ; $0.0064; NR) Cable Business assets for $45mm. A sale hearing is scheduled for Tuesday (6/4)…

This morning, Flex (FLEX; $32.80; O/P) announced it acquired, for undisclosed terms, privately held FreeFlow, which provides a suite of electronic component asset disposition services. Overall, we think the acquisition of FreeFlow, which we assume…

We adjust F2025/F2026E (Jan) EPS for Dell Technologies (DELL; $169.92; E/W) from $7.55/$8.40 to $7.65/$8.80 after management “only” raised F2025E EPS guidance from $7.25-7.75 to $7.40-7.90 (+4-11% YoY) following a slight FQ1 (Apr) EPS beat…

We are adjusting our F2025E (Apr) EPS for NetApp (NTAP; $116.50; E/W) from $6.85 to $6.90 to account for somewhat better forward guidance after FQ4 (Apr) results largely came in as we expected. Specifically, FQ4…

We think Lyft’s (LYFT; $15.92; E/W) Investor Day, scheduled for next Thursday (6/6) in New York, can prove a positive catalyst for the shares, especially with the stock down 22% since late-March despite solid Q1…

This morning, Jabil (JBL; $117.33; O/P), which currently trades at 14X our F2024E (Aug) EPS and 6.3X EV/EBITDA, announced a new set of configurable, high-performance server platforms, which are part of the company’s broader set…

We raise our target from $34 to $40 on the shares of Flex (FLEX; $33.64; O/P) to better consider: (1) the rising importance of its robust cloud solutions offering to operating profit growth; and (2)…

Last Thursday (5/23), Dell Technologies (DELL; $160.18; E/W) topped off a series of product and partnership announcements from its Dell Technologies World user conference with news that it is expanding on its existing partnership with…

Last week, we met with Hyzon Motors’ (HYZN; $0.51) CEO Parker Meeks and CFO Stephen Weiland at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Las Vegas. Our meeting suggested management is increasingly encouraged by opportunities…