APTV: Investor Day Highlights a Range of Value Creation Opportunities

Yesterday (11/18), we attended Aptiv’s (APTV; $75.77; E/W) Investor Day in New York where we heard presentations from and chatted with key leaders across the company including from a soon to be separated Electrical Distribution…

NTAP: Our Major Considerations into FQ2 Print

We are generally comfortable with our estimates for NetApp (NTAP; $108.42; E/W) ahead of its FQ2 (Oct) results and outlook, scheduled for next Tuesday (11/25 after market). We think recent enterprise storage spending trends have…

DELL: All Eyes on Margins with FQ3 Print

We expect Dell Technologies (DELL; $127.55; E/W) to produce some solid top line upside with its FQ3 (Oct) results and outlook, scheduled for next Tuesday (11/25 after market). However, we think the Street will be…

LYFT: More Reasons to Believe; Raise Target to $30

We reiterate our Outperform and raise our target from $28 to $30 on the shares of Lyft (LYFT; $23.14) after hosting an investor meeting last Wednesday (11/12), with Erin Rheaume, Senior Director of IR, at…

Supply Chain Inventories Still Look Under Control

Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain after CQ3 EPS season suggested another quarter of general improvements. Specifically, our survey across OEMs, component makers, electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers and…

JBL: Improving Its Supply Chain for Battery Storage

Earlier this week, Jabil (JBL; $201.25; O/P) announced it is expanding on its strategic partnership with Inno, which is a metal parts manufacturer, to manufacture battery energy storage system (BESS) enclosures from a new facility…

NXT: More Power to Them

Yesterday (11/12), we attended Nextracker’s (NXT; $88.32; E/W) Capital Markets Day at its headquarters in Fremont, CA where management announced a corporate rebrand under an updated name of Nextpower and rolled out a long-term financial…

CART: More Competitive Proof Points and a Big Buyback to Consider

We reiterate our Outperform and $50 target on the shares of Maplebear d/b/a Instacart (CART; $37.33) after Q3 results and guidance comfortably lived up to Street expectations, with robust free cash flows (FCF) that suggest…

JBL: Meetings Highlights Road to Increasingly Profitable Growth

Last week, we hosted investor meetings in Boston for Jabil (JBL; $213.71; O/P), where we were joined by Greg Hebard, CFO as well as Matt Crowley, EVP, Intelligent Infrastructure Global Business Unit (46% of F2026E…

PLXS: Meetings Highlight Reasonable Paths to Some Upside

On Tuesday (11/4), we hosted virtual investor meetings for the management team of Plexus (PLXS; $143.32; E/W), which included participation from CEO Todd Kelsey, CFO Patrick Jermain as well as Mike Running, Regional President, Americas,…

SNDK: A NAND Cycle Unlike Any Other; Raise Rating to Outperform

We are raising our rating on the shares of Sandisk (SNDK; $207.69) from Equal-Weight to Outperform and establishing a $280 target after the company’s FQ1 (Sept) results and guidance suggested a much tighter NAND supply…

LYFT: Moving Fast to Drive Robust Cash Flows; Raise Target to $28

We think Lyft’s (LYFT; $21.25; O/P) healthy Q3 results and guide, including more positive talk into its 2026E and 2027E thinking, emphasized how the company seems poised to accelerate gross bookings (GB) growth, both in…

DASH: Heightened Investment Pace Raises Concerns

The shares of DoorDash (DASH; $196.46; E/W) declined 17% today after the company produced Q3 results and guidance that more than lived up to Street expectations. However, DASH also warned of a much-heightened level of…

BHE: Back on a Healthy Growth Trajectory

We bump up our 2025E EPS for Benchmark Electronics (BHE; $44.21; O/P) from $2.30 to $2.34 (+2% YoY) while maintaining 2026E EPS at $2.55 (+9%), albeit with rising optimism for returning growth, after the company…

JBL: Acquires Scaled, High Margin Power Solutions Business

Last night, Jabil (JBL; $209.22; O/P) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Hanley Energy Group for $725mm plus a contingent consideration of up to $58mm in a transaction that adds a range of power system…