LYFT: Further Expansion of Media Offering

Yesterday (10/1), Lyft (LYFT; $12.51; O/P) announced that its Media division, which is the company’s dedicated media and advertising business, expanded its suite of measurement and targeting capabilities in a move aimed at providing its…

NTAP: Officially Expands Google Cloud Partnership

Earlier today, NetApp (NTAP; $121.31; E/W) announced it is expanding on its partnership with Google Cloud by integrating additional data storage and services into the Google Distributed Cloud architecture, which management previously hinted at during…

DASH: Adds to Platform Capabilities for Merchants

Last week, DoorDash (DASH; $142.14; E/W) introduced a new suite of products aimed at helping merchants manage and expand their businesses. We think this announcement provides further support for the idea that the company is…

GLW: Some New Product News to Consider

Recent news flow out of Corning (GLW; $44.67; O/P) provides further support for the idea that the company is well positioned to continue to re-purpose its glass manufacturing assets towards the production of newer and…

APTV: Reducing Rating to Equal-Weight

We are reducing our rating on the shares of Aptiv (APTV; $72.01) from Outperform to Equal-Weight and cutting 2024/2025E EPS from $6.35/$7.70 to $6.10/$7.00 (vs. consensus of $6.24/$7.80) over our concerns that rising tariffs, particularly…

TEL: Meeting Highlights Its Winning Long-Term Bets

We reiterate our Outperform on the shares of TE Connectivity (TEL; $149.58) after hosting a virtual investor meeting on Wednesday (9/25) with CEO Terrence Curtin, CFO Heath Mitts, and Aaron Stucki, President, Communications Solutions. Most…

JBL: Sets the Bar Well for Success

We reiterate our Outperform on the shares of Jabil (JBL; $126.65) after it provided a solid F2025E (Aug) outlook on the back of beating FQ4 (Aug) expectations, where the common threads were further free cash…

JBL: First Look at FQ4 (Aug) Results and Outlook

Jabil (JBL; $113.43; O/P) reported FQ4 (Aug) “core” non-GAAP EPS of $2.30, which was ahead of our $2.23 and the Street’s $2.22 on better-than-expected sales ($6,964mm vs. our $6,631mm and the Street’s $6,586mm). As illustrated…

MU: Supply Concerns Prove Overblown; Reiterate Outperform

We raise F2025E (Aug) EPS for Micron (MU; $95.77; O/P) from $8.00 to $8.40 after the company produced solid FQ4 (Aug) EPS upside ($1.18 vs. our $1.12 and the Street’s $1.11) combined with an FQ1E…

DELL: Adds to Telecom Offering Set

This morning (9/25), Dell Technologies (DELL; $119.69; O/P) introduced Dell AI for Telecom, which is a program focused on simplifying and accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) deployments for communications service providers. We think this announcement provides…

UBER: Adds Further to List of Autonomy Partnerships

This morning, Uber Technologies (UBER; $77.44; O/P) added yet another in a recent series of technology partnerships that seem aimed at accelerating a path to commercializing the deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on its network,…

NTAP: Formally Rolls Out Some New Offerings

This morning, NetApp (NTAP; $122.64; E/W) posted a series of new product and partnership announcements that followed up nicely on yesterday’s CEO keynote from its Insight user conference and were consistent with prior “hints”. Importantly,…

NTAP: Insight Highlights NTAP’s GenAI Path Forward

Yesterday, we attended NetApp’s (NTAP; $122.92; E/W) Insight user conference in Las Vegas where we joined the company’s Financial Analysts Session before listening in on a keynote from CEO George Kurian, who was joined on…

CHPT: Announces Partner Awards

On Friday (9/20), ChargePoint (CHPT; $1.37; E/W) disclosed it received $19mm+ in awards, through its partners, to deploy 248 direct current fast charging (DCFC) ports at 45 sites along certain highways in California. These awards…

CART: Some Technology Driven News to Consider

We think recent news out of Maplebear, doing business as Instacart (CART; $42.14; E/W), provides further support for longer term operating leverage available to the company from its advertising offering ($910mm of LTM sales or…