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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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August 23, 2023

GLW: Some Summer Food for Thought

By Steven Fox

We are fine tuning our 2023/2024E EPS for Corning (GLW; $32.22; E/W) from $1.80/$2.15 to $1.78/$2.13 to better consider likely sales pressures on Environmental Technologies (12% of 2023E sales and 16% of EBIT ex-corporate) for…

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August 21, 2023

HYZN: Hydrogen Infrastructure Support Continues to Rise

By Steven Fox

We think recent news flow continues to point to healthy project activity aimed at emerging needs for a range of hydrogen refueling infrastructure, in turn providing support for the idea that hydrogen fuel cell electric…

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August 17, 2023

NTAP: Not Expecting Much Top Line Enthusiasm

By Steven Fox

The shares of NetApp (NTAP; $75.03; E/W) are up 13% (vs. +5% for the S&P 500) post FQ4 (Apr) results on 5/31 despite ongoing top line pressures (e.g., down low-to-mid-single digits in F2024E) and limited…

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August 17, 2023

TEL: Makes a Timely Product Expansion Move

By Steven Fox

This morning, TE Connectivity (TEL; $129.49; E/W) announced a public tender offer for all outstanding shares of Schaffner (SAHN.CH; CHF493.00; NR), which produces electromagnetic capability (EMC) filters, harmonic filters, and other electromagnetic components for certain…

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August 17, 2023

Finally, Some Progress on Supply Chain Inventory Front

By Steven Fox

Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain, across OEMs, component makers, electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers and distributors (27 companies with $82B in annual inventories ex-Apple at the end of…

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August 11, 2023

Some Major Regulatory Approval for AVs

By Steven Fox

Yesterday (8/10), the California Public Utilities Commission voted in favor of allowing General Motors’ (GM; $33.86; NR) Cruise and Alphabet’s (GOOGL; $129.24; NR) Waymo to offer paid Automated Mobility on Demand (AMoD) rides in autonomous…

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August 10, 2023

LYFT: More on the Ad Front

By Steven Fox

This morning, Lyft (LYFT; $10.85; E/W) disclosed in a blog post that its Media division (dedicated media and advertising business) is rolling out personalized ads across the Lyft ridershare app through a partnership with Rokt….

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August 10, 2023

UBER: Serving Up a Further Investment in Autonomy

By Steven Fox

We think this morning’s news that Serve Robotics is in the process of finalizing an IPO by merging with unlisted special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Patricia Acquisition further highlights Uber Technologies’ (UBER; $44.70; O/P) commitment…

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