JBL: First Look at FQ1 (Nov) Results and Outlook

Jabil (JBL; $212.56; O/P) reported FQ1 (Nov) “core” non-GAAP EPS of $2.85, which beat our $2.67 and the Street’s $2.70 with some healthy sales upside ($8,305mm vs. our $8,000mm and the Street’s $8,031mm). Recall, JBL’s…

SANM: Let’s Make an Energy Deal; Buy the Big Dip

This morning, Sanmina (SANM; $146.01; O/P) announced plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Houston, TX, as part of the company’s ambitions to expand further into energy markets that are currently ~5% of total…

FLEX: More Support for Its Powerful Content Story

We think a series of recent supply chain data points further highlight how the Power Solutions business at Flex (FLEX; $68.27; O/P) should prove especially critical to several of the world’s largest cloud service providers…

BDC: CFO Meeting Further Supports a Winning Strategic Focus

Yesterday (12/11), we hosted a virtual investor meeting for Belden’s (BDC; $124.89; E/W) CFO Jeremy Parks and VP of IR, Aaron Reddington, which highlighted ongoing progress towards increasing the company’s mix of higher margin full…

MU: Catching Up on Pricing Tailwinds Ahead of FQ1 Print

We raise our F2026/F2027E (Aug) EPS for Micron (MU; $263.71; O/P) from $16.50/$18.00 to $17.75/$21.50 ahead of its FQ1 (Nov) print, scheduled for next Wednesday (12/17 after market), predominantly to reflect its much more favorable…

JBL: Estimates Look on Solid Footing into FQ1 Print

We reiterate our Outperform on the shares of Jabil (JBL; $229.97) ahead of the company’s FQ1 (Nov) print and outlook, scheduled for next Wednesday (12/17 before market). We believe management set the bar reasonably for…

Delivery and Rideshare Networks: Some Autonomous Context to Consider

The shares of Lyft (LYFT; $20.46; O/P) and Uber Technologies (UBER; $84.37; E/W) continue to be “whipsawed”, both up and down in our view, by the latest news on the autonomous rideshare front. Specifically, we…

FN: CEO Meetings Highlight Expanding Optical Advantages

We reiterate our Outperform and raise our target from $560 to $600 on the shares of Fabrinet (FN; $514.25; O/P) after hosting investor meetings for the company’s CEO Seamus Grady and Garo Toomajanian, VP, IR…

EMS Takeaways from AWS CEO Keynote

We think yesterday’s keynote from Amazon’s (AMZN; $232.38; NR) AWS CEO Matt Garman at the company’s re: Invent user conference further highlighted what we believe to be a wealth of new and more complex program…

LYFT: Highlights Progress on AI Front

Earlier this week, Lyft (LYFT; $22.43; O/P) highlighted in a blog post how it is continuing to enhance customer support through its previously announced partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Anthropic, a developer of…

Fox Tracks: Retail Storage Pricing Survey

We checked retail channel prices on “Cyber Monday” (12/1) for hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs), which we measure on a Dollar per Gigabyte basis ($/GB). Our checks suggested average HDD retail prices…

Fox Tracks: Retail LCD TV Pricing Survey

On “Cyber Monday” (12/1), we checked prices on a range of popular full-HD (1080p) and 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD 2160p) LCD TV models from LG, Samsung and Vizio by pulling publicly available prices from…

A Changing State of Cloud Play in EMS

We believe recent news flow highlights how investment drivers across the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry should prove increasingly dynamic next year. To that end, we point to the recent announcement of a new partnership…

DASH: Refining Our Model

We are adjusting our 2026E adjusted EBITDA for DoorDash (DASH; $198.37; E/W) from $3.325B (2.6% of GOV) to $3.425B (2.6% of GOV vs. 2.7% in 2025E and 2.4% in 2024) to better consider the recent…

NTAP: Post A Solid Beat and Raise

We are bumping up our F2026/F2027E (Apr) for NetApp (NTAP; $111.48; E/W) from $7.75/$8.50 to $7.90/$8.65, which now assumes average EPS growth of 9% YoY, after the company produced a solid FQ2 (Oct) “beat and…