UBER: More New Experiments to Consider

Recent news flow out of Uber Technologies (UBER; $56.06; O/P) highlights how the company continues to engage in a range of new category and new product opportunities, admittedly as per below more on the “experimental”…

CART: Doing More to Move the EBITDA Needle

Earlier this month, Maplebear (CART; $25.10), doing business as Instacart, made a series of announcements that we think highlight how the company can continue to “control its own destiny” by expanding its product category reach,…

DASH: Adding More to Grocery Reach

Last Thursday (11/16), DoorDash (DASH; $94.19; E/W) announced a new partnership with The Save Mart Companies to offer on-demand grocery delivery in under an hour from nearly 200 stores that operate under the banners Save…

JBL: Expands on Higher Margin Renewables Growth Story

Last week, Jabil (JBL; $130.29; O/P) announced it entered into a strategic manufacturing agreement with Power Electronics, which is a scaled OEM provider of a range of energy storage solutions based largely in Valencia, Spain…

Healthy Vehicle Demand Continues in Europe

This morning, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association released car registration data from the region for the month of October, which again was somewhat above seasonal trends. Specifically, European vehicle registrations in October (~20% of global…

Correcting Modeling Error; No Change in Buy Thesis

We are adjusting our 2023E and 2024E EPS for Benchmark Electronics (BHE; $25.70; O/P) from $2.05/$2.35 to $2.03/$2.15 in order to correct for an error in our prior modeling assumptions around gross margins. Specifically, our…

DELL: Guidance Should Prove Closer to Reality This Time

We think it especially difficult to “game” Dell Technologies (DELL; $73.60; E/W) upcoming FQ3 (Oct) results and outlook, scheduled for November 30th (after market). On one hand, Dell guidance of the past four quarters has…

NTAP: Looking for Some FQ2 Green Shoots

We think the EPS bar for NetApp (NTAP; $77.52; E/W) is set at a reasonable level ahead of its FQ2 (Oct) results and outlook, which are set for Tuesday, November 28th (after market). We think…

LCID: Launches Important SUV Platform

Last Thursday (11/16), we attended the launch of Lucid’s (LCID; $4.25; E/W) Gravity at the Los Angeles Auto Show, which expands the company into a much larger market opportunity with an electric sport utility vehicle…

CHPT: Big Miss Leads to CEO & CFO Changes

Last night, ChargePoint (CHPT; $3.13; E/W) negatively pre-announced a big top and bottom line miss to its FQ3 (Oct) guidance, which comes after the company just raised $232mm through an at-the-market facility on October 11th….

UBER: Taking Steps to Further Improve Driver Supply

Earlier this week, Uber Technologies (UBER; $54.20; O/P) announced a series of improvements to its driver and courier app that are aimed at improving safety, enabling more efficient rideshare and delivery trips, while also addressing…

WDC: Roadmap News Adds to Positive Stance on Stock

This morning, Western Digital (WDC; $46.03; O/P) announced it started volume shipments of its 10-disk 24TB conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDDs to hyperscale and enterprise customers. At the same time, WDC disclosed it started ramping…

HYZN: Making Measurable Progress

We think Hyzon Motors’ (HYZN; $1.08) Q3 print and forward-looking commentary demonstrates how management is making good progress along key commercial, technical and cash burn vectors. From a numbers perspective, Hyzon still sees free cash…

Still More Inventory Risk to Consider?

Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain showed some further progress towards a return of more normalized levels, albeit within the context of what now looks like a heightened corporate…

PSNY: Reducing Rating to Equal-Weight

We are reducing our rating on the shares of Polestar (PSNY; $2.07) from Outperform to Equal-Weight after last Wednesday night’s Q3 results were somewhat of a “mixed bag” and Q4E guidance once again disappointed in…