Technology Supply Chain

This morning, Molex, a wholly owned subsidiary of privately held Koch Industries and one of the world’s largest makers of interconnect products, announced a massive long-term supply agreement with Prysmian (PRYMY; $72.69; NR) that we…

We think the generally robust stock price performance across our supply chain coverage during H1 of C2026 makes for an especially difficult setup into CQ2 EPS season. We think this is even after considering the…

We believe “data center politics” in the U.S. are increasingly worth monitoring by supply chain investors, especially with mid-term elections on the horizon for four months from now and what seems to be shifting views…

Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain on the heels of CQ1 EPS season suggested some typical post-holiday season inventory builds were the case during the quarter. This particularly makes…

We think investors should generally expect favorable Q1 results and guidance from the tech supply chain during CQ1 EPS season. Although, we think it reasonable to question, across a range of markets, if the ongoing…

We believe an expanding war in Iran is starting to adjust investor thinking on end market risks within technology supply chains, for better as well as worse (e.g., aerospace & defense vs. auto and consumer…

We think a weekend raid of a major drug cartel by authorities in Mexico, which resulted in the killing of a cartel leader and subsequent violence in the Mexican state of Jalisco should be of…

Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain post CQ4 EPS season suggested another quarter of general supply chain tightening relative to more recent levels. Although, for what it is worth,…

We expect the upcoming CQ4 EPS season from the technology supply chain to highlight still healthy cloud data center spending trends that drove robust performance across our coverage in 2025 (e.g., average stock up 85%)….

We think this week’s news that Honeywell’s (HON; $214.34; NR) majority owned Quantinuum plans to confidentially file for an IPO is likely to signal a broader level of interest in the quantum computing space from…

On “Cyber Monday” (12/1), we checked prices on a range of popular full-HD (1080p) and 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD 2160p) LCD TV models from LG, Samsung and Vizio by pulling publicly available prices from…

Earlier this week, we spent a day in St. Louis at the SC25 conference where we sat in on a few presentations, walked the trade show floor, and spoke with various managers from leading power…

Our latest look at aggregate inventories up and down the supply chain after CQ3 EPS season suggested another quarter of general improvements. Specifically, our survey across OEMs, component makers, electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers and…

Our trip last week to San Jose, CA for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit highlighted a range of company specific takeaways, as per our prior notes in recent days, but also bigger picture…

The stocks of the companies in our tech supply chain coverage have rallied 32% on average since the end of June, or 26% ex-Sandisk, bringing average YTD performance to up 62% (+58% ex-SNDK), ahead of…