Flex (FLEX)


November 25, 2024

FLEX: Raise Target to $50 as New CFO is Named

By Steven Fox

Flex (FLEX; $41.30; O/P) announced the appointment on Friday (11/22) of Kevin Krumm as its new CFO effective January 6th. Mr. Krumm succeeds Jaime Martinex, who was serving effectively as interim CFO after Paul Lundstrom…

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November 15, 2024

FLEX: Acquires Some Advanced Liquid Cooling Tech

By Steven Fox

Last night, Flex (FLEX; $37.64; O/P) announced it acquired privately held JetCool for undisclosed terms. JetCool, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Littleton, MA, has developed liquid cooling solutions for cloud, enterprise, and co-location data…

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October 30, 2024

FLEX: More Margin Expansion Despite Tougher Demand Backdrop

By Steven Fox

We adjust F2025/F2026E (Mar) EPS for Flex (FLEX; $36.05; O/P) from $2.45/$2.85 to $2.45/$2.75 after FQ2 (Sept) results and guidance further demonstrated the operating margin expansion potential still available to the company, even with ongoing…

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October 17, 2024

FLEX: Crowns Its Power Solutions with More Opportunity

By Steven Fox

This morning, Flex (FLEX; $34.70; O/P) announced plans to acquire, for $325mm in cash, privately held Crown Technical Systems, which produces power distribution and protection systems used in data centers, as well as by utilities…

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October 16, 2024

FLEX: Still See Offsets to Auto Pressures

By Steven Fox

We believe FQ2 (Sep) results and outlook from Flex (FLEX; $34.33; O/P), scheduled for October 30th (before market), should further highlight its ability to continue to steadily improve margins and cash flows even in the…

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October 14, 2024

FLEX: Announces Interesting Partnership and New Reference Designs

By Steven Fox

This morning, Flex (FLEX; $35.41; O/P) announced from the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose that it was launching several new reference designs for liquid-cooled servers, racks, and power products for GenAI…

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September 18, 2024

FLEX: Plant Tour Highlights Hard to Match Cloud Offering

By Steven Fox

We reiterate our Outperform and $40 target on the shares of Flex (FLEX; $30.85) after visiting its facilities in Guadalajara, Mexico with investors yesterday (9/17). The plant tours and discussion with management, including Interim CFO…

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August 22, 2024

FLEX: Adding Capacity for Its Power Play

By Steven Fox

This morning, Flex (FLEX; $31.92; O/P) announced that its Anord Mardix business, which is focused on a range of power solutions for cloud and traditional data centers, as well as some other industrial applications, opened…

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August 12, 2024

FLEX: Another Big Buyback Authorization

By Steven Fox

After the close on Friday (8/9), Flex (FLEX; $29.29; O/P) filed an 8-K in which it disclosed that it had received shareholder approval to purchase up to another 20% of the company’s shares outstanding, in…

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July 24, 2024

FLEX: Big Cloud Driven Upside

By Steven Fox

We raise our F2025E (Mar) EPS for Flex (FLEX; $31.76; O/P) from $2.35 to $2.45 after the company handily beat FQ1 (Jun) expectations, delivering EPS of $0.51, which was well ahead of our consensus-matching $0.41,…

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July 24, 2024

FLEX: First Look at FQ1 (Jun) Results and Outlook

By Steven Fox

Flex (FLEX; $29.72; O/P) reported FQ1 (Jun) adjusted EPS of $0.51, which handily beat our consensus matching $0.41 on sales of $6,314mm that were also higher than our $5,950mm and the Street’s $5,904mm. By comparison,…

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July 16, 2024

FLEX: Undervalued Into Earnings

By Steven Fox

We reiterate our Outperform rating and $40 target on the shares of Flex (FLEX; $31.82) ahead of its FQ1E (Jun) results and outlook, which are scheduled for next Wednesday (7/24 before market). More to the…

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May 31, 2024

FLEX: Serious About the Circular Economy

By Steven Fox

This morning, Flex (FLEX; $32.80; O/P) announced it acquired, for undisclosed terms, privately held FreeFlow, which provides a suite of electronic component asset disposition services. Overall, we think the acquisition of FreeFlow, which we assume…

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May 29, 2024

FLEX: More Power for Our Price Target

By Steven Fox

We raise our target from $34 to $40 on the shares of Flex (FLEX; $33.64; O/P) to better consider: (1) the rising importance of its robust cloud solutions offering to operating profit growth; and (2)…

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May 2, 2024

FLEX: There Must Be Some Misunderstanding; Reiterate Outperform

By Steven Fox

We think yesterday’s 8% decline in the shares of Flex (FLEX; $26.34; O/P) proves an overaction to the early-F2025E (Mar) volatility embedded in its latest financial outlook. FQ4 (Mar) results and full F2025E guidance lived…

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