LYFT: A Partnership Setback That Can Be Overcome

The shares of Lyft (LYFT; $13.36; O/P) declined 7% on Wednesday after Uber Technologies (UBER; $64.91; O/P) announced a new and exclusive multi-year partnership with Delta Air Lines (DAL; $61.42; NR) that displaces Lyft’s prior…

UBER: Furthers Its Autonomous Vehicle Network Positioning

This week, Uber Technologies (UBER; $64.94; O/P) announced a partnership with NVIDIA (NVDA; $140.17; NR) aimed at accelerating the development of artificial intelligence (AI) based autonomous driving technology. We think news of Uber’s partnership with…

UBER: A Bullish Indicator to Start the New Year

This morning, Uber Technologies (UBER; $64.59; O/P) announced it entered into an accelerated share repurchase (ASR) agreement to buy back $1.5B of its stock (vs. the company’s $139B market cap), which it plans to be…

VRT: A Well-Run Cloud Power Play; Initiate at Equal-Weight

We formally initiate coverage on Vertiv Holdings (VRT; $125.67) with an Equal-Weight rating. We see VRT continuing to be well positioned to capitalize on the rising power and thermal management complexities of next gen data…

CHPT: Discontinuing Coverage

Due to a reallocation of resources, Fox Advisors is discontinuing coverage of ChargePoint (CHPT – $1.11 – Last Rating: Equal-Weight – Price Target: NA). Effective immediately, our rating, price target, disclosures and estimates are discontinued…

LCID: Discontinuing Coverage

Due to a reallocation of resources, Fox Advisors is discontinuing coverage of Lucid Group (LCID – $3.15 – Last Rating: Equal-Weight – Price Target: NA). Effective immediately, our rating, price target, disclosures and estimates are…

WDC: Cutting NAND Profit Forecasts Ahead of Split

We reduce our F2025/F2026E (Jun) EPS for Western Digital (WDC; $60.70; O/P) from $7.50/$9.00 to $6.50/$7.60 to incorporate the impact of greater than expected NAND pricing pressures (~50% of sales) during December within its soon…

More Regulatory Confusion?

Last Friday (12/20), the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed a voluntary federal regulatory framework entitled the Autonomous Driving System-Equipped Vehicle Safety, Transparency and Evaluation Program (AV STEP), which aims…

NTAP: Some Recent Outperformance to Consider

We think recent FQ2 (Oct) results out of NetApp (NTAP; $118.14; E/W) and industry peers provide support for the idea that the stock is now at the low end of its trading range especially given…

UBER: An M&A Setback in Taiwan

Yesterday (12/25), Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it was blocking Uber Technologies’ (UBER; $61.71; O/P) planned acquisition of Delivery Hero’s (DHER.DE; €28.58; NR) foodpanda delivery business in Taiwan (foodpanda Taiwan) due to its…

UBER: Doubles Down on Taxis in South Korea

This morning, Uber Technologies (UBER; $60.21; O/P) announced plans to acquire TMAP Mobility’s 49% stake in the two companies’ joint venture (JV), named Uber Taxi, in South Korea for $39mm, which would give Uber full…

Some Solid Vehicle Demand Mix in Europe

This morning, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association released new car registration data from the region for the month of November, which was in line with typical MoM seasonal trends. Importantly, the data included ongoing healthy…

MU: A Transitory Type of Disappointment

We reduce F2025/F2026E (Aug) EPS for Micron (MU; $103.90; O/P) from $8.40/$11.20 to $6.75/$8.80 after FQ2E (Feb) guidance badly disappointed the Street, albeit with FQ1 (Nov) profits that were somewhat better than expected despite a…

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

Micron Technology (MU; $103.90; O/P) reported FQ1 (Nov) non-GAAP EPS of $1.79, which was ahead of our $1.75 and the Street’s $1.76 despite some lower than expected sales ($8,709mm vs. our $8,750mm and consensus of…

JBL: Cloud Ecosystem Drives Upside Surprise

We bump up our F2025/F2026E (Aug) EPS for Jabil (JBL; $144.95; O/P) from $8.65/$9.60 to $8.75/$9.75 after the company produced a solid “beat and raise” on especially healthy free cash flows (FCF), which was led…