FLEX: Acquires Some Advanced Liquid Cooling Tech

Last night, Flex (FLEX; $37.64; O/P) announced it acquired privately held JetCool for undisclosed terms. JetCool, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Littleton, MA, has developed liquid cooling solutions for cloud, enterprise, and co-location data…

JBL: Exploring Further Footprint Diversification

This morning, Jabil (JBL; $129.25; O/P) announced it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat State Government of India, which follows on a separate MoU signed with the Tamil Nadu State of India,…

NTAP: Comfortable With Forecasts into FQ2 Print

We remain comfortable with our estimates for NetApp (NTAP; $117.99; E/W) ahead of its FQ2 (Oct) results and outlook, scheduled for next Thursday (11/21 after-market). We see NTAP benefiting from at least a seasonal recovery…

HYZN: Discloses More Fleet Test Details

This morning, Hyzon Motors (HYZN; $1.57) formally announced it successfully completed another trial of its refuse collection fuel cell electric truck, developed through a partnership with New Way Trucks, with Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery (MDRR),…

DELL: Raising Price Target Ahead of FQ3 (Oct) Print

We reiterate our Outperform and raise our target from $150 to $160 on the shares of Dell Technologies (DELL; $134.53), ahead of its FQ3 (Oct) results and outlook, scheduled for November 26th (after market). We think…

HYZN: Continuing to Execute to Its Targets

Hyzon Motors (HYZN; $1.63) reported Q3 results, which demonstrated further how the company continues to hit on promised milestones for 2024E. Most importantly, Hyzon’s average monthly net cash burn rate in Q3 was ($8.2mm), which…

CART: Continues to Build a Competitive Moat

We adjust our 2024/2025E EBITDA for Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $48.34; E/W), from $855mm (2.6% of GTV)/$960mm (2.7% of GTV) to $865mm (2.6% of GTV) and $975mm (2.8% of GTV) after the company reported solid…

CART: First Look at Q3 Results and Outlook

Maplebear, doing business as Instacart, (CART; $48.34; E/W), posted Q3 adjusted EBITDA of $227mm (2.7% of GTV), which was ahead of our forecast of $211mm (2.6% of GTV) and the Street’s $212mm (2.6% of GTV)….

GLW: Secures More CHIPS Act Funding

Last Friday (11/8), the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it signed a preliminary memorandum of terms with Corning (GLW; $48.90; O/P) to provide up to $32mm in direct funding under the U.S. CHIPS and Science…

Supply Chain Inventories Improve as New Questions Arise

Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain after the recent CQ3 results season suggested further progress towards “normalizing” inventories, especially at electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers. However, we recognize that…

LCID: Making Progress on Multiple Fronts

We modify 2024E and 2025E adjusted EBITDA for Lucid Group (LCID; $2.31; E/W) from losses of ($2.54B)/($2.11B) to ($2.44B)/($2.10B) after Q3 EBITDA losses of ($613mm) were less than our estimate of ($658mm), which compared to…

APTV: Announces Intriguing CFO Change

Last night, Aptiv (APTV; $55.64; E/W) announced that Joe Massaro, who has served as CFO since 2016, would move into a senior operations role as Vice Chairman, Engineered Components Group (ECG; interconnect and cable management…

COMM: We Finally See Some Terra Firma

We reinstate our Equal-Weight on the shares of CommScope (COMM; $5.20), after today’s 25% decline in the stock, which seemed to reflect concerns tied to news that negotiations with one group of creditors had ceased…

LYFT: Key Strategic Efforts Continue to Come Together

We reiterate our Outperform and raise our target from $16 to $21 on the shares of Lyft (LYFT; $14.40) after the company beat Q3 expectations and provided some better-than-expected Q4E guidance that reflected well on…

LYFT: First Look at Q3 Results and Outlook

Lyft (LYFT; $14.40; O/P) posted Q3 gross bookings of $4.108B, which was ahead of our $4.07B and the Street’s $4.08B that in turn drove adjusted EBITDA of $107mm (2.6% of gross bookings) vs. our $93mm…