Flex (FLEX)


May 7, 2025

FLEX: Offers Up Healthy Guidance Despite Macro Challenges

By Steven Fox

We raise our F2026E (Mar) EPS for Flex (FLEX; $37.90; O/P) from $2.85 to $2.90 after the company posted a solid “beat and raise” with its FQ4 (Mar) results, which highlighted a continued robust pace…

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April 28, 2025

FLEX: Adding More Capacity to Meet Power Demand

By Steven Fox

This morning, Flex (FLEX; $34.70; O/P) announced it “significantly” increased production capacity for data center power products, such as busway systems, power distribution units and remote power panels, at its manufacturing facility in Columbia, South…

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April 21, 2025

FLEX: Looking Oversold into March Quarter Print

By Steven Fox

We assume our full F2026E (Mar) sales, operating margin, and EPS for Flex (FLEX; $30.53; O/P) of $26.4B (+2% YoY on an organic basis), 5.8% (vs. 5.6% in F2025E) and $2.85 (+9% YoY) remains a reasonable…

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April 1, 2025

FLEX: A Powerful Time to Invest

By Steven Fox

We think the 26% plunge in the shares of Flex (FLEX; $33.08; O/P) over the past 2+ months offers an excellent buying opportunity for investors willing to look out to the end of this year….

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February 24, 2025

FLEX: CEO Meetings Highlight Long Margin Expansion Runway

By Steven Fox

We reiterate our Outperform and $50 target on the shares of Flex (FLEX; $40.36) after hosting investor meetings in New York last Thursday (2/20) for CEO Revathi Advaithi, CFO Kevin Krumm, as well as David…

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February 6, 2025

FLEX: More on the Customer Near-Shoring Front

By Steven Fox

Earlier this week, Husqvarna, which is a large supplier of lawnmowers, leaf and snow blowers, as well as other home and garden equipment, announced a strategic manufacturing partnership with Flex (FLEX; $43.82; O/P). We note…

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January 29, 2025

FLEX: More Cloud, Margin, and Cash Flow Momentum

By Steven Fox

We reiterate our Outperform and $50 target on Flex (FLEX; $41.51) as we bump up our F2025/F2026E (Mar) EPS from $2.45/$2.75 to $2.62/$2.85 after the company produced a healthy FQ3 (Dec) “beat and raise” that…

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January 29, 2025

FLEX: First Look at FQ3 (Dec) Results and Outlook

By Steven Fox

Flex (FLEX; $40.59; O/P) reported FQ3 (Dec) adjusted EPS of $0.77, which was well ahead of our consensus matching $0.63, on sales of $6,556mm that were also comfortably beyond our $6,200mm and the Street’s $6,206mm….

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January 21, 2025

FLEX: Cloud Mix Should Drive Some FQ3 (Dec) Upside

By Steven Fox

We reiterate our Outperform on the shares of Flex (FLEX; $42.72) ahead of its FQ3 (Dec) print and guidance, scheduled for Wednesday, January 29th (before market), which we think can come with some operating margin…

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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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