July 18, 2024
This morning, CommScope (COMM; $1.85; NR) announced plans to divest its Outdoor Wireless Networks (OWN) business as well as its Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) portfolio that sits within its Networking, Intelligent Cellular and Security offering,…
May 31, 2024
Yesterday, CommScope (COMM; $1.49) announced that it was selected as the “highest and best bidder” to acquire Casa Systems’ (CASSQ; $0.0064; NR) Cable Business assets for $45mm. A sale hearing is scheduled for Tuesday (6/4)…
May 9, 2024
We are suspending our investment opinion on the shares of CommScope (COMM; $1.19) since a looming $1.3B debt maturity in June of 2025E has still yet to be resolved, as part of its highly leveraged…
May 9, 2024
CommScope (COMM; $1.05; E/W) reported Q1 non-GAAP EPS losses of ($0.08), which were better than our ($0.19) and the Street’s ($0.22). Sales were $1,168mm, which was ahead of our $1,063mm and the Street’s $1,067mm, contributing…
February 29, 2024
We reduce our 2024E EBITDA for CommScope (COMM; $1.27; E/W) from $1.08B to $650mm as management warned on further weakness across its business to start the new year after posting “core” Q4 EBITDA (ex-Home Networks)…
November 9, 2023
CommScope’s (COMM; $1.59; E/W) Q3 results and outlook “filled in the blanks” to its recent, badly timed negative pre-announcement, which was not overly surprising after prior news flow (“Another Major Disappointment”; 10/30). Specifically, COMM’s “core”…
November 9, 2023
CommScope (COMM; $1.57; E/W) reported Q3 non-GAAP EPS of $0.13, which was lower than our $0.17 and the Street’s $0.19. Sales of $1,600mm were as expected, as per its negative pre-announcement late last month (“Another…
October 30, 2023
This morning, CommScope (COMM; $1.41; E/W) negatively pre-announced Q3 results and warned on its Q4E outlook. Specifically, COMM now expects Q3E sales of $1.60B (-17% QoQ and -33% YoY) and $249mm (15.6% of sales), which…
October 3, 2023
This morning, Vantiva (VANTI.FR; €0.18; NR) announced it reached an agreement with CommScope (COMM; $3.45; E/W) to purchase its Home Networks business in exchange for: (1) a 25% stake in Vantiva on a fully dilutive…
August 3, 2023
We are reducing our rating on the shares of CommScope (COMM; $3.26) from Outperform to Equal-Weight after a much bigger Q2 “miss and lower” than we expected with our recent estimate cuts (“Reducing Estimates Ahead…
August 3, 2023
CommScope (COMM; $4.42; O/P) reported Q2 non-GAAP EPS of $0.19, which badly missed our consensus matching $0.37. Sales were $1,918mm, below our $2,013mm and the Street’s $2,029mm, which led to disappointing operating profits and margins…
July 19, 2023
We reduce our 2023/2024E “core” EBITDA (ex-Home Networks) for CommScope (COMM; $5.02; O/P) from $1.45B/$1.6B to $1.38B/$1.55B ahead of its Q2 results and outlook on August 3rd (before market). Our lower core EBITDA forecasts, which…
May 4, 2023
We think CommScope (COMM; $4.82; O/P) continues to execute extremely well to its “core” 2023E EBITDA targets of $1.35-1.50B (+8-20% YoY ex-Home Networks) on the back of a strategic transformation plan (CommScope NEXT) that is…
May 4, 2023
CommScope (COMM; $4.77; O/P) reported Q1 non-GAAP EPS of $0.35, which beat the Street’s $0.32 and was well ahead of our more conservative $0.23. Sales were $2,002mm, which compared to the Street’s $2,148mm and our…
May 1, 2023
We see CommScope’s (COMM; $4.93; O/P) “core” 2023E EBITDA target of $1.35-1.50B (ex-Home Networks) “holding up” when it posts Q1 results on Thursday (5/4 before market). However, we are concerned consensus Q1E forecasts may not…