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January 6, 2025

UBER: A Bullish Indicator to Start the New Year

By Steven Fox

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…

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January 6, 2025

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

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 30, 2024

CHPT: Discontinuing Coverage

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 30, 2024

LCID: Discontinuing Coverage

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 30, 2024

WDC: Cutting NAND Profit Forecasts Ahead of Split

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 26, 2024

More Regulatory Confusion?

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 26, 2024

NTAP: Some Recent Outperformance to Consider

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 26, 2024

UBER: An M&A Setback in Taiwan

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 20, 2024

UBER: Doubles Down on Taxis in South Korea

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 19, 2024

Some Solid Vehicle Demand Mix in Europe

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 19, 2024

MU: A Transitory Type of Disappointment

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 18, 2024

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

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 18, 2024

JBL: Cloud Ecosystem Drives Upside Surprise

By Steven Fox

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…

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December 18, 2024

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

By Steven Fox

Jabil (JBL; $133.96; O/P) reported FQ1 (Nov) “core” non-GAAP EPS of $2.00, which beat our $1.87 and the Street’s $1.88 on sales of $6,994mm that were also ahead of our $6,600mm and the Street’s $6,608mm)….

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December 18, 2024

COMM: Cleans Up Balance Sheet

By Steven Fox

Last night, CommScope (COMM; $5.61; E/W) announced a major refinancing that pushes out upcoming maturities while laying out a specific plan to reduce balance sheet leverage, which we think enables the company’s ongoing businesses to…

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