December 20, 2024
This morning, Uber Technologies (UBER; $60.21; O/P) announced plans to acquire TMAP Mobility’s 49% stake in the two companies’ joint venture (JV), named Uber Taxi, in South Korea for $39mm, which would give Uber full…
December 19, 2024
This morning, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association released new car registration data from the region for the month of November, which was in line with typical MoM seasonal trends. Importantly, the data included ongoing healthy…
December 19, 2024
We reduce F2025/F2026E (Aug) EPS for Micron (MU; $103.90; O/P) from $8.40/$11.20 to $6.75/$8.80 after FQ2E (Feb) guidance badly disappointed the Street, albeit with FQ1 (Nov) profits that were somewhat better than expected despite a…
December 18, 2024
Micron Technology (MU; $103.90; O/P) reported FQ1 (Nov) non-GAAP EPS of $1.79, which was ahead of our $1.75 and the Street’s $1.76 despite some lower than expected sales ($8,709mm vs. our $8,750mm and consensus of…
December 18, 2024
We bump up our F2025/F2026E (Aug) EPS for Jabil (JBL; $144.95; O/P) from $8.65/$9.60 to $8.75/$9.75 after the company produced a solid “beat and raise” on especially healthy free cash flows (FCF), which was led…
December 18, 2024
Jabil (JBL; $133.96; O/P) reported FQ1 (Nov) “core” non-GAAP EPS of $2.00, which beat our $1.87 and the Street’s $1.88 on sales of $6,994mm that were also ahead of our $6,600mm and the Street’s $6,608mm)….
December 18, 2024
Last night, CommScope (COMM; $5.61; E/W) announced a major refinancing that pushes out upcoming maturities while laying out a specific plan to reduce balance sheet leverage, which we think enables the company’s ongoing businesses to…
December 17, 2024
This evening, Sensata (ST; $29.48; E/W) announced that its Board appointed Stephan Von Schuckmann as CEO effective as of January 1st. Recall, Sensata appointed Martha Sullivan as interim CEO back in April after its former…
December 17, 2024
We think recent reports that privately held Verkada, a supplier of security hardware, such as video cameras, access controls, environmental sensors, alarms and intercoms, is set to raise $200mm in funding at a $4.5B valuation,…
December 17, 2024
Yesterday (12/16), Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $42.18; E/W), announced it is now offering several new supplier and merchant solutions to Instacart Business users on its platform. Recall, CART’s higher margin Instacart Business offering allows customers…
December 16, 2024
The shares of Lyft (LYFT; $14.09; O/P) are down 23% since 11/12, including a more recent -13% since 12/10, which came on the heels of a report out of data analysis provider Yipit on Alphabet’s…
December 13, 2024
Yesterday, the shares of Western Digital (WDC; $65.99; O/P) declined 6% on the heels of CEO Dave Goeckeler and CFO Wissam Jabre presenting at an investor conference where the company called out that it is…
December 12, 2024
We continue to see the shares of Micron (MU; $99.43; O/P) as undervalued into its FQ1 (Nov) results and outlook, scheduled for next Wednesday (12/18 after market). We note the stock is +4% since an…
December 11, 2024
We think Jabil’s (JBL; $132.75; O/P) FQ1 (Nov) results and outlook, scheduled for next Wednesday (12/18 before market), should comfortably support the company’s full F2025E sales, operating margin and EPS outlook of $27.0B (+2% YoY…
December 11, 2024
On Tuesday (12/10), we attended Mobileye Global’s (MBLY; $16.98; E/W) Innovation Day in Munich, Germany, where we heard detailed presentations from CEO Amnon Shashua, CFO Moran Shemesh Rojansky, CTO Shai Shalev-Shwartz and EVP, Strategy &…