December 17, 2024
This evening, Sensata (ST; $29.48; E/W) announced that its Board appointed Stephan Von Schuckmann as CEO effective as of January 1st. Recall, Sensata appointed Martha Sullivan as interim CEO back in April after its former…
December 17, 2024
We think recent reports that privately held Verkada, a supplier of security hardware, such as video cameras, access controls, environmental sensors, alarms and intercoms, is set to raise $200mm in funding at a $4.5B valuation,…
December 17, 2024
Yesterday (12/16), Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $42.18; E/W), announced it is now offering several new supplier and merchant solutions to Instacart Business users on its platform. Recall, CART’s higher margin Instacart Business offering allows customers…
December 16, 2024
The shares of Lyft (LYFT; $14.09; O/P) are down 23% since 11/12, including a more recent -13% since 12/10, which came on the heels of a report out of data analysis provider Yipit on Alphabet’s…
December 13, 2024
Yesterday, the shares of Western Digital (WDC; $65.99; O/P) declined 6% on the heels of CEO Dave Goeckeler and CFO Wissam Jabre presenting at an investor conference where the company called out that it is…
December 12, 2024
We continue to see the shares of Micron (MU; $99.43; O/P) as undervalued into its FQ1 (Nov) results and outlook, scheduled for next Wednesday (12/18 after market). We note the stock is +4% since an…
December 11, 2024
We think Jabil’s (JBL; $132.75; O/P) FQ1 (Nov) results and outlook, scheduled for next Wednesday (12/18 before market), should comfortably support the company’s full F2025E sales, operating margin and EPS outlook of $27.0B (+2% YoY…
December 11, 2024
On Tuesday (12/10), we attended Mobileye Global’s (MBLY; $16.98; E/W) Innovation Day in Munich, Germany, where we heard detailed presentations from CEO Amnon Shashua, CFO Moran Shemesh Rojansky, CTO Shai Shalev-Shwartz and EVP, Strategy &…
December 6, 2024
This morning (12/6), Uber Technologies (UBER; $65.23; O/P) announced it launched a ride-hailing partnership in Abu Dhabi, UAE with WeRide (WRD; $15.95; NR), an autonomous driving technology company. Interestingly, this announcement comes right on the heels of news yesterday that Alphabet’s (GOOG; $174.31; NR) Waymo One was expanding its autonomous rideshare app into Miami, which added to recent pressure on Uber’s share price (-10% yesterday and -25% since 10/11 vs. +12% YTD). However, keep in mind that …
December 6, 2024
On Thursday (12/5), the shares of Lyft (LYFT; $15.50; O/P) and Uber Technologies (UBER; $65.23; O/P) both traded down by ~10% after Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet (GOOGL; $174.31; NR), announced its Waymo One autonomous…
December 6, 2024
Earlier this week, executives from Seagate (STX; $98.18; O/P) provided a few meaningful updates ahead of presenting at a couple of investor conferences, including that it: (1) cleared important product qualification hurdles tied to the…
December 5, 2024
We make relatively modest changes to our F2025 and F2026E (Jan) sales and EBITDA forecasts for ChargePoint (CHPT; $1.22; E/W) after the company reported some better-than-expected FQ3 (Oct) results and offered up FQ4E (Jan) sales…
December 4, 2024
We are reducing 2025E sales, operating profit, and EPS for Mobileye (MBLY; $17.54; E/W) ahead of the company’s upcoming Capital Markets Day in Munich, Germany on December 9-10th to better consider uncertainty around future shipments…
December 3, 2024
We checked retail prices on “Black Friday” (11/29) for hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs), which we measure on a Dollar per Gigabyte basis ($/GB). Our checks suggested HDD retail prices are down…
December 3, 2024
On “Black Friday” (11/29), we checked prices on several 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 OEM websites,…