DELL: Some More from Dell World

Yesterday, we sat in on the second day of keynotes at Dell Technologies World, which was led by Dell’s (DELL; $146.68; E/W) Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke and included presentations from Arthur Lewis (President, Infrastructure…

DELL: An AI Edition of Dell World

Yesterday, we sat in on the Dell Technologies World keynote from Dell’s (DELL; $145.45; E/W) CEO Michael Dell in Las Vegas where the company put forward seven different product advancements, discussed below, aimed at better…

JBL: Relieving News for Investors

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…

UBER: Go-Get the Stock; Reiterate Outperform

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…

NTAP: More Product Development Aimed at Supporting AI

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….

NXT: Demonstrating Its Differentiation; Raise Rating to Outperform

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…

CLS: When Stars Align with the Cloud; Initiate with Outperform

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…

BHE: Reduce Rating to Equal-Weight After Big Stock Move

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…

UBER: Makes a Move to Expand in Taiwan

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…

HYZN: Making More Commercial Progress

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…

More YoY Supply Chain Inventory Progress

Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain suggested some more YoY improvements towards a return of more normalized inventories, albeit in the context of some typical seasonal increases in March…

COMM: Suspending Rating Pending Balance Sheet Resolution

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…

CART: Q1 Beats on Better Seasonality

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…

COMM: First Look at Q1 Results

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…

UBER: Stock Too Focused on the Small Things

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,…