December 1, 2023
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…
December 1, 2023
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…
November 29, 2023
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…
November 29, 2023
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…
November 28, 2023
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 $1,528mm). As…
November 28, 2023
We checked retail prices on “Cyber Monday” (11/27) for hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs), which we measure on a Dollar per Gigabyte basis ($/GB), for the first time since November of last…
November 28, 2023
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…
November 28, 2023
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…
November 27, 2023
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”…
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…