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May 21, 2024

DELL: An AI Edition of Dell World

By Steven Fox

Yesterday, we sat in on the Dell Technologies World keynote from Dell’s (DELL; $145.45; E/W) CEO Michael Dell in Las Vegas where the company put forward seven different product advancements, discussed below, aimed at better…

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May 20, 2024

JBL: Relieving News for Investors

By Steven Fox

This morning, Jabil (JBL; $121.25; O/P) announced several senior leadership changes, most importantly, the appointment of CFO Mike Dastoor to CEO, which is not unexpected given the recent investigation into former CEO Kenny Wilson that…

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May 20, 2024

UBER: Go-Get the Stock; Reiterate Outperform

By Steven Fox

The shares of Uber Technologies (UBER; $65.67; O/P) continue to languish relative to mid-February highs, which seems to generally go against recent news flow from the company, a still healthy travel backdrop, especially since Mobility…

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May 20, 2024

NTAP: More Product Development Aimed at Supporting AI

By Steven Fox

Last week, NetApp (NTAP; $110.47; E/W) announced a new AFF A-Series all-flash array (AFA) storage system aimed at increasing enterprise needs to “re-think” storage infrastructure strategies for the accelerated development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications….

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May 15, 2024

NXT: Demonstrating Its Differentiation; Raise Rating to Outperform

By Steven Fox

We raise our rating on the shares of Nextracker (NXT; $43.01) from Equal-Weight to Outperform and establish a $60 target after its big FQ4 (Mar) adjusted EBITDA “beat and raise”, which came on further backlog…

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May 15, 2024

CLS: When Stars Align with the Cloud; Initiate with Outperform

By Steven Fox

We initiate coverage with an Outperform and $60 target on the shares of Celestica (CLS; $48.00), an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, which after completing a portfolio transformation in 2021 is now well focused on…

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May 14, 2024

BHE: Reduce Rating to Equal-Weight After Big Stock Move

By Steven Fox

We are reducing our rating on the shares of Benchmark Electronics (BHE; $41.09) from Outperform to Equal-Weight after the stock price has now well exceeded our prior target and is now trading at valuation levels…

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May 14, 2024

UBER: Makes a Move to Expand in Taiwan

By Steven Fox

Last night, Uber Technologies (UBER; $64.99; O/P) announced it signed an agreement to acquire Delivery Hero’s (DHER.DE; €31.92; NR) foodpanda delivery business in Taiwan (foodpanda Taiwan) for $950mm in cash. We think this announcement further…

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May 14, 2024

HYZN: Making More Commercial Progress

By Steven Fox

Hyzon Motors (HYZN; $0.54) reported Q1 results and offered up a range of conference call commentary that suggests it remains on a solid commercial path, including a more efficient use of cash. Specifically, Hyzon recognized…

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May 13, 2024

More YoY Supply Chain Inventory Progress

By Steven Fox

Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain suggested some more YoY improvements towards a return of more normalized inventories, albeit in the context of some typical seasonal increases in March…

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May 9, 2024

COMM: Suspending Rating Pending Balance Sheet Resolution

By Steven Fox

We are suspending our investment opinion on the shares of CommScope (COMM; $1.19) since a looming $1.3B debt maturity in June of 2025E has still yet to be resolved, as part of its highly leveraged…

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May 9, 2024

CART: Q1 Beats on Better Seasonality

By Steven Fox

We raise our 2024/2025E EBITDA for Maplebear, doing business as Instacart (CART; $37.48; E/W), from $700mm/$790mm to $825mm/$915mm after it comfortably exceeded Q1 expectations on some better-than-expected seasonality with good execution that is translating into…

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May 9, 2024

COMM: First Look at Q1 Results

By Steven Fox

CommScope (COMM; $1.05; E/W) reported Q1 non-GAAP EPS losses of ($0.08), which were better than our ($0.19) and the Street’s ($0.22). Sales were $1,168mm, which was ahead of our $1,063mm and the Street’s $1,067mm, contributing…

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May 8, 2024

UBER: Stock Too Focused on the Small Things

By Steven Fox

We bump up our 2024/2025E EBITDA for Uber Technologies (UBER; $66.40; O/P) from $6.0B/$7.85B to $6.25B/$8.0B after the company produced some profitability metrics in Q1 results and with Q2E guidance that exceeded our modeling. However,…

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May 8, 2024

CART: First Look at Q1 Results and Outlook

By Steven Fox

Maplebear, doing business as Instacart, (CART; $37.48; E/W) posted Q1 adjusted EBITDA of $198mm (2.4% of GTV), which was well ahead of our forecast of $160mm (2.0% of GTV) and the Street’s $158mm (1.9% of…

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