July 16, 2024
We think underlying fundamentals behind Seagate’s (STX; $109.10; E/W) positive FQ4 (Jun) guidance update last month should comfortably support our and Street’s F2025E (Jun) forecasts, especially when it comes to gross margins, when it reports…
June 4, 2024
We are raising our F2024/F2025E (Jun) EPS for Seagate (STX; $91.85; E/W) from $0.93/$5.40 to $1.10/$5.85 after the company’s CFO Gianluca Romano provided a positive update at an investor conference earlier today. Specifically, STX now…
April 24, 2024
We raise our F2024/F2025E (Jun) EPS for Seagate (STX; $86.53; E/W) from $0.75/$4.35 to $0.93/$5.40 after FQ3 (Mar) results and guidance generally lived up to expectations across key metrics, albeit with “puts and takes”. STX…
April 23, 2024
Seagate (STX; $86.49; E/W) reported FQ3 (Mar) non-GAAP EPS of $0.33, which was ahead of our $0.30 estimate and the Street’s $0.29 despite moderately lower than expected sales ($1,655mm vs. our $1,662mm and the Street’s…
April 15, 2024
The shares of Seagate (STX; $85.19; E/W) are -10% since it “only” reiterated FQ3E (Mar) sales and EPS guidance of $1.5-1.8B (+6% QoQ and -11% YoY at the mid-point) and $0.05-0.45 back on March 6th….
January 25, 2024
Seagate’s (STX; $89.17; E/W) FQ2 (Dec) results and outlook provided further confirmation for the idea that the company is now on a consistent recovery track, discussed below, per the expected improvement in key FQ2 metrics…
January 24, 2024
Seagate (STX; $89.17; E/W) reported FQ2 (Dec) non-GAAP EPS of a profit of $0.12, which comfortably beat our estimate of a ($0.03) loss and the Street’s ($0.06) on sales of $1,555mm (vs. our $1,582mm and…
January 17, 2024
We are bumping up our FQ2E (Dec) EPS for Seagate (STX; $83.33; E/W) from ($0.13) to ($0.03) to account for management commentary in recent weeks that suggested some better HDD shipments in the quarter (measured…
October 27, 2023
We adjust F2024/F2025E (Jun) EPS for Seagate (STX; $65.84; E/W) from ($0.03)/$2.65 to ($0.15)/$3.00 after its FQ1 (Sep) results generally lived up to recently lowered targets, with puts and takes, but FQ2E (Dec) guidance was…
September 11, 2023
We reduce our F2024E (Jun) EPS for Seagate (STX; $65.37; E/W) from a profit of $0.13 to a loss of ($0.03) to catch up with the management warnings last week at an investor conference that…
July 27, 2023
We reduce F2024E (Jun) EPS for Seagate (STX; $61.46; E/W) from $1.25 to $0.13 after another round of disappointing guidance. On the plus side, management seems to have finally “thrown in the towel” around expectations…
July 17, 2023
We are reducing our FQ4 (Jun) and F2024E (Jun) EPS for Seagate (STX; $61.57; E/W) ahead of the company’s release of full FQ4 results on July 26th (after market). Recall, STX warned at an investor…
June 6, 2023
Last Thursday (6/1), we hosted an investor meeting at Seagate’s (STX; $60.86; E/W) offices in San Jose, CA where we met with Rod Cooper, VP Finance, and IR, along with Jingjing Chen from the IR…
April 20, 2023
We are cutting F2023/F2024E (Jun) EPS further for Seagate (STX; $57.08; E/W) after the company produced an FQ3 (Mar) “miss and lower” that more than confirmed our ongoing concerns around cloud and IT spending, customer…
April 20, 2023
Seagate (STX; $62.86; E/W) reported FQ3 (Mar) non-GAAP EPS that was a loss of ($0.28) on sales of $1,860mm, which was well below our recently lowered estimate for a profit of $0.22 (on sales of…