Flex (FLEX)


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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April 29, 2024

FLEX: Plenty of Positive Data Points Ahead of FQ4 Print

By Steven Fox

We see Flex’s (FLEX; $28.97; O/P) FQ4 (Mar) print on Wednesday (5/1 before market) more than living up to Street expectations, which we think in combination with an updated F2025E (Mar) EPS bar, proves a…

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April 5, 2024

FLEX: A Powerful Thing Right Now for the Stock

By Steven Fox

We see Flex’s (FLEX; $29.11; O/P) cloud data center portfolio, led by its in-house power solutions, as still well underrepresented in current valuations (12X F2025E EPS). To that end, we note an ongoing rally in…

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February 21, 2024

FLEX: Some Positive Power Data Points

By Steven Fox

We reiterate our Outperform and $32 target on Flex (FLEX; $27.22) after reviewing this morning’s CQ4 results and outlook from Vertiv Holdings (VRT; $56.90; NR), which is a leading producer of uninterruptable power suppliers, power…

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February 12, 2024

FLEX: Meetings Highlight Range of EPS Growth Vectors; Raise Target to $32

By Steven Fox

We reiterate our Outperform and raise our target from $30 to $32 on the shares of Flex (FLEX; $26.65; O/P) after hosting investor meetings last Thursday (2/8) in Boston with CEO Revathi Advaithi, CFO Paul…

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February 1, 2024

FLEX: A Rock Solid FQ3 Print and Guide; Raise Target to $30

By Steven Fox

Flex (FLEX; $23.74; O/P) delivered FQ3 (Dec) results with an FQ4E (Mar) guidance that comfortably lived up to expectations, including its “core” remaining business after the recently completed spin of Nextracker (NXT; $45.27; E/W). Specifically,…

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January 17, 2024

FLEX: Adjusting Model for NXT Divestiture

By Steven Fox

We are updating our financial model for Flex (FLEX; $22.13; O/P) to account for the recently completed divestiture of Nextracker (NXT; $41.89; E/W) on January 2nd (“NXT Spin Coming Much Sooner Than Expected”; 12/18/23). The…

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