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September 13, 2023

Insta Analysis of CART

By Steven Fox

We reviewed S-1 filings of Maplebear, which is doing business as Instacart, and assembled a financial model, including a “first stab” at forecasts ahead of a proposed IPO under the ticker CART. Instacart, the largest…

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September 11, 2023

STX: Adjusting Estimates for Further Headwinds

By Steven Fox

We reduce our F2024E (Jun) EPS for Seagate (STX; $65.37; E/W) from a profit of $0.13 to a loss of ($0.03) to catch up with the management warnings last week at an investor conference that…

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September 7, 2023

CHPT: Reduce Rating to Equal-Weight

By Steven Fox

We lower our rating on ChargePoint (CHPT; $7.06) from Outperform to Equal-Weight after FQ2 (July) results disappointed even if we exclude an unexpected inventory write-down. CHPT also provided weaker than expected top and bottom-line targets…

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September 5, 2023

MBLY: Some Interesting SuperVision News

By Steven Fox

This morning, Mobileye Global (MBLY; $37.23; E/W) announced that a set of autonomous driving features based on the company’s SuperVision platform have now been added to 110,000 ZEEKR 001 electric vehicles (EVs) in Hangzhou and…

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September 1, 2023

DELL: Big Beat to Guidance Again

By Steven Fox

Dell Technologies (DELL; $56.24; E/W) easily cleared its FQ2 (July) guidance bar on EPS of $1.74 (+4% YoY), beating our consensus matching $1.14 and its own $1.00-1.20. The beat was driven by much better-than-expected sales…

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August 31, 2023

PSNY: Facing a Critical 18 Month Period Post Q2 Print

By Steven Fox

Polestar (PSNY; $3.33; O/P) announced full Q2 results this morning that were generally around our expectations outside of some noticeable gross margin disappointment. At the same time, the company shipped 15,765 vehicles during Q2, which…

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August 30, 2023

Generally Solid European Auto Registrations

By Steven Fox

This morning, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association released car registration data from the region for the month of July, which was modestly below seasonal trends. Specifically, European vehicle registrations in July (~20% of global demand)…

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August 30, 2023

HYZN: Takes Another Development Step Forward

By Steven Fox

This morning, Hyzon Motors (HYZN; $1.25) announced the successful completion of its first customer demonstration with a liquid hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) in partnership with Chart Industries (GTLS; $177.63; NR). Recall, Hyzon announced…

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August 28, 2023

JBL: Announces Plans to Exit Mobility Business

By Steven Fox

Last night, Jabil (JBL; $103.22; O/P) surprised us when it announced a preliminary agreement for the sale of its Mobility business to BYD Electronic or BYDE (285.HK; HK$32.85; NR). Most recently, management estimated its Mobility…

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August 25, 2023

APTV: An Interesting Wind River Win

By Steven Fox

Earlier this week, Aptiv’s (APTV; $97.22; O/P) Wind River business unit, acquired late last year for $3.5B, announced that Geely’s (175.HK; HK$9.51; NR) ZEEKR electric vehicle (EV) brand selected the Wind River Linux operating system…

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August 25, 2023

MBLY: Announces Another Chauffeur Win

By Steven Fox

This morning, Polestar (PSNY; $3.63; O/P) announced it plans to integrate Mobileye Global’s (MBLY; $35.71; E/W) Chauffeur consumer autonomous driving platform into its Polestar 4 SUV. Recall, MBLY believes Chauffeur enables “eyes-off/hands-free” driving in a…

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August 25, 2023

CHPT: Time to Catch That Falling Knife?

By Steven Fox

The shares of ChargePoint (CHPT; $6.79; O/P) are now down 30% since its FQ1 (Apr) results in early-June (-22% since July-end) and -57% YoY ahead of its FQ2 (Jul) results and outlook, scheduled for September…

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August 24, 2023

DELL: More Risk than Reward into FQ2 Print

By Steven Fox

We approach the shares of Dell Technologies (DELL; $56.71; E/W) with caution into FQ2 (Jul) results and outlook next Thursday (8/31 after market). The stock is +25% (vs. +4% for the S&P 500) since FQ1…

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August 24, 2023

NTAP: Still No Signs of a Storage Demand Recovery

By Steven Fox

NetApp’s (NTAP; $76.53; E/W) FQ1 (July) EPS was $1.15 (-4% YoY), which beat our $1.05 and the Street’s $1.07, on basically as expected sales and upside from some higher gross margins and tighter opex controls,…

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August 23, 2023

NTAP: First Look at FQ1 (Jul) Results and Outlook

By Steven Fox

NetApp (NTAP; $76.53; E/W) reported FQ1 (Jul) non-GAAP EPS of $1.15, which was ahead of our $1.05 and the Street’s $1.07 on basically as expected sales ($1,432mm vs. our $1,425mm and the Street’s $1,413mm). As…

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