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December 13, 2023

JBL: Announces Interesting AI Partnership

By Steven Fox

Yesterday, Supplyframe, which has developed a Design-to-Source Intelligence (DSI) platform for the global electronics market, announced an interesting partnership with Jabil (JBL; $120.15; O/P) to better utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies to enable…

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December 13, 2023

TEL: Returning More to Shareholders

By Steven Fox

Last night, TE Connectivity (TEL; $135.50; E/W) announced that its Board authorized a $1.5B increase in its share repurchase program. By comparison, TEL’s market cap is $43B and the company had $735mm remaining on its…

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December 11, 2023

LCID: Announces Surprising CFO Departure

By Steven Fox

This evening after the close, we were surprised to see Lucid Group (LCID; $4.61; E/W) announce that Sherry House, is resigning from her position as CFO, effective immediately, to pursue “other opportunities”, especially after recently…

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December 11, 2023

JBL: Some Explaining to Do

By Steven Fox

We think Jabil’s (JBL; $121.15; O/P) release of FQ1 (Nov) results and outlook on Thursday (12/14 before market) leaves little room for surprise after its negative pre-announcement. However, we see a lot for Jabil to…

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December 7, 2023

CHPT: Provides Details of Recent Pre-Announce

By Steven Fox

ChargePoint (CHPT; $2.05; E/W) produced FQ3 (Oct) results that were consistent with our recently lowered estimates for the company’s negative pre-announcement (“Big Miss Leads to CEO & CFO Changes”; 11/17). We note consensus was relatively…

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December 5, 2023

Some More Interesting EMS Proof Points

By Steven Fox

Last Wednesday (11/29), Celestica (CLS; $26.96; NR) hosted a virtual Investor Meeting that we think provided additional support for the idea that electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers are in a much better secular position for…

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December 1, 2023

UBER: Adds an Important Taxi Opportunity

By Steven Fox

On Wednesday (11/29), Uber Technologies (UBER; $56.75; O/P) announced plans to start onboarding black cabs in London to its platform starting in “early 2024”, which further adds to a new product story for its Mobility…

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December 1, 2023

DELL: A Mixed Bag of FQ3 Results and Guidance

By Steven Fox

We adjust F2024E (Jan) EPS for Dell Technologies (DELL; $75.87; E/W) from $6.50 to $6.68 after the company produced a solid FQ3 (Oct) EPS beat, despite lower-than-expected revenues, albeit partially offset by FQ4E (Jan) guidance…

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November 29, 2023

NTAP: Execution Improves Further

By Steven Fox

We raise F2024/F2025E (Apr) EPS for NetApp (NTAP; $90.15; E/W) from $5.75/$6.25 to $6.18/$6.70 after a solid “beat and raise” in the face of what it still sees as a soft IT spending environment with…

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November 29, 2023

JBL: Guide Down Highlights Silver Lining Playbook

By Steven Fox

Last night, Jabil (JBL; $130.68; O/P) negatively pre-announced FQ1E (Nov) and guided down full F2024E (Aug) sales and EPS. Specifically, Jabil now sees FQ1E sales of $8.3-8.4B, down from prior thinking of $8.4-9.0B, and EPS…

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November 28, 2023

NTAP: First Look at FQ2 (Oct) Results and Outlook

By Steven Fox

NetApp (NTAP; $78.11; E/W) reported FQ2 (Oct) non-GAAP EPS of $1.58, which comfortably beat our $1.37 and the Street’s $1.39 on somewhat better than expected sales ($1,562mm vs. our $1,525mm and the Street’s $1,528mm). As…

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November 28, 2023

Fox Tracks: Retail Storage Pricing Survey

By Steven Fox

We checked retail prices on “Cyber Monday” (11/27) for hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs), which we measure on a Dollar per Gigabyte basis ($/GB), for the first time since November of last…

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November 28, 2023

Fox Tracks: Retail LCD TV Pricing Survey

By Steven Fox

On “Cyber Monday” (11/27), we checked prices on a number 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…

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November 28, 2023

MU: Solid Signs of Rational Supply on Status Quo Demand

By Steven Fox

Micron (MU; $75.10; E/W) bumped up its FQ1 (Nov) non-GAAP outlook in conjunction with CEO Sanjay Mehrotra and CFO Mark Murphy presenting at an investor conference earlier this morning. Micron now expects FQ1E EPS losses…

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November 27, 2023

UBER: More New Experiments to Consider

By Steven Fox

Recent news flow out of Uber Technologies (UBER; $56.06; O/P) highlights how the company continues to engage in a range of new category and new product opportunities, admittedly as per below more on the “experimental”…

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