Company Notes

This morning, Jabil (JBL; $121.25; O/P) announced several senior leadership changes, most importantly, the appointment of CFO Mike Dastoor to CEO, which is not unexpected given the recent investigation into former CEO Kenny Wilson that…

The shares of Uber Technologies (UBER; $65.67; O/P) continue to languish relative to mid-February highs, which seems to generally go against recent news flow from the company, a still healthy travel backdrop, especially since Mobility…

Last week, NetApp (NTAP; $110.47; E/W) announced a new AFF A-Series all-flash array (AFA) storage system aimed at increasing enterprise needs to “re-think” storage infrastructure strategies for the accelerated development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications….

We raise our rating on the shares of Nextracker (NXT; $43.01) from Equal-Weight to Outperform and establish a $60 target after its big FQ4 (Mar) adjusted EBITDA “beat and raise”, which came on further backlog…

We initiate coverage with an Outperform and $60 target on the shares of Celestica (CLS; $48.00), an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, which after completing a portfolio transformation in 2021 is now well focused on…

We are reducing our rating on the shares of Benchmark Electronics (BHE; $41.09) from Outperform to Equal-Weight after the stock price has now well exceeded our prior target and is now trading at valuation levels…

Last night, Uber Technologies (UBER; $64.99; O/P) announced it signed an agreement to acquire Delivery Hero’s (DHER.DE; €31.92; NR) foodpanda delivery business in Taiwan (foodpanda Taiwan) for $950mm in cash. We think this announcement further…

Hyzon Motors (HYZN; $0.54) reported Q1 results and offered up a range of conference call commentary that suggests it remains on a solid commercial path, including a more efficient use of cash. Specifically, Hyzon recognized…

We are suspending our investment opinion on the shares of CommScope (COMM; $1.19) since a looming $1.3B debt maturity in June of 2025E has still yet to be resolved, as part of its highly leveraged…

We raise our 2024/2025E EBITDA for Maplebear, doing business as Instacart (CART; $37.48; E/W), from $700mm/$790mm to $825mm/$915mm after it comfortably exceeded Q1 expectations on some better-than-expected seasonality with good execution that is translating into…

CommScope (COMM; $1.05; E/W) reported Q1 non-GAAP EPS losses of ($0.08), which were better than our ($0.19) and the Street’s ($0.22). Sales were $1,168mm, which was ahead of our $1,063mm and the Street’s $1,067mm, contributing…

We bump up our 2024/2025E EBITDA for Uber Technologies (UBER; $66.40; O/P) from $6.0B/$7.85B to $6.25B/$8.0B after the company produced some profitability metrics in Q1 results and with Q2E guidance that exceeded our modeling. However,…

Maplebear, doing business as Instacart, (CART; $37.48; E/W) posted Q1 adjusted EBITDA of $198mm (2.4% of GTV), which was well ahead of our forecast of $160mm (2.0% of GTV) and the Street’s $158mm (1.9% of…

Uber Technologies (UBER; $70.43; O/P) posted Q1 adjusted EBITDA of $1,382mm (3.7% of gross bookings), which beat our forecast of $1,310mm (3.5% of gross bookings) and the Street’s $1,313mm (3.5% of gross bookings). Revenues of…

We adjust our 2024/2025E adjusted EBITDA for Lyft (LYFT; $16.60; E/W) from $338mm/$465mm to $345mm/$465mm after it produced a solid Q1 top and bottom line beat that was accompanied by a healthy guidance update for…