November 27, 2023
Earlier this month, Maplebear (CART; $25.10), doing business as Instacart, made a series of announcements that we think highlight how the company can continue to “control its own destiny” by expanding its product category reach,…
November 27, 2023
Last Thursday (11/16), DoorDash (DASH; $94.19; E/W) announced a new partnership with The Save Mart Companies to offer on-demand grocery delivery in under an hour from nearly 200 stores that operate under the banners Save…
November 27, 2023
Last week, Jabil (JBL; $130.29; O/P) announced it entered into a strategic manufacturing agreement with Power Electronics, which is a scaled OEM provider of a range of energy storage solutions based largely in Valencia, Spain…
November 21, 2023
This morning, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association released car registration data from the region for the month of October, which again was somewhat above seasonal trends. Specifically, European vehicle registrations in October (~20% of global…
November 20, 2023
We are adjusting our 2023E and 2024E EPS for Benchmark Electronics (BHE; $25.70; O/P) from $2.05/$2.35 to $2.03/$2.15 in order to correct for an error in our prior modeling assumptions around gross margins. Specifically, our…
November 20, 2023
We think it especially difficult to “game” Dell Technologies (DELL; $73.60; E/W) upcoming FQ3 (Oct) results and outlook, scheduled for November 30th (after market). On one hand, Dell guidance of the past four quarters has…
November 20, 2023
We think the EPS bar for NetApp (NTAP; $77.52; E/W) is set at a reasonable level ahead of its FQ2 (Oct) results and outlook, which are set for Tuesday, November 28th (after market). We think…
November 20, 2023
Last Thursday (11/16), we attended the launch of Lucid’s (LCID; $4.25; E/W) Gravity at the Los Angeles Auto Show, which expands the company into a much larger market opportunity with an electric sport utility vehicle…
November 17, 2023
Last night, ChargePoint (CHPT; $3.13; E/W) negatively pre-announced a big top and bottom line miss to its FQ3 (Oct) guidance, which comes after the company just raised $232mm through an at-the-market facility on October 11th….
November 16, 2023
Earlier this week, Uber Technologies (UBER; $54.20; O/P) announced a series of improvements to its driver and courier app that are aimed at improving safety, enabling more efficient rideshare and delivery trips, while also addressing…
November 16, 2023
This morning, Western Digital (WDC; $46.03; O/P) announced it started volume shipments of its 10-disk 24TB conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDDs to hyperscale and enterprise customers. At the same time, WDC disclosed it started ramping…
November 14, 2023
We think Hyzon Motors’ (HYZN; $1.08) Q3 print and forward-looking commentary demonstrates how management is making good progress along key commercial, technical and cash burn vectors. From a numbers perspective, Hyzon still sees free cash…
November 14, 2023
Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain showed some further progress towards a return of more normalized levels, albeit within the context of what now looks like a heightened corporate…
November 13, 2023
We are reducing our rating on the shares of Polestar (PSNY; $2.07) from Outperform to Equal-Weight after last Wednesday night’s Q3 results were somewhat of a “mixed bag” and Q4E guidance once again disappointed in…
November 10, 2023
We think the first post-IPO set of quarterly results from Maplebear, doing business as Instacart (CART; $24.48), further highlighted the viability for online grocery delivery platforms in general, and more specifically, the company’s competitive advantages…