Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Astera Labs, a cloud- and AI connectivity-focused semiconductor company, filed to go public. Top-tier underwriters Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan are leading the offering.</li>
<li>The fabless semiconductor unicorn plans to raise up to $500M. Selling stockholders intend to sell shares and the number of shares is yet to be announced.</li>
<li>I like the long-term, AI/cloud story. However, the IPO may look too pricey at more than $3B valuation despite the company’s revenue acceleration and improving profitability.</li>
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Astera Labs, a cloud- and AI connectivity-focused semiconductor company, filed to go public. Top-tier underwriters Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan are leading the offering.
The fabless semiconductor unicorn plans to raise up to $500M. Selling stockholders intend to sell shares and the number of shares is yet to be announced.
I like the long-term, AI/cloud story. However, the IPO may look too pricey at more than $3B valuation despite the company’s revenue acceleration and improving profitability.


Astera Labs IPO Preview and Valuation Analysis: Will Pricey IPO Frighten The Investors Off?

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Douglas O'Laughlin

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors

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Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly emphasized that the data center is the new unit of compute.</li>
<li>While this concept seemed straightforward at first, the deeper implications became clearer after Nvidia's presentations at GTC and OFC 2024.</li>
<li>I only recently grasped exactly what is happening, and a simple reframing of the underlying principles that drove Moore’s Law makes the entire picture clearer.</li>
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly emphasized that the data center is the new unit of compute.
While this concept seemed straightforward at first, the deeper implications became clearer after Nvidia's presentations at GTC and OFC 2024.
I only recently grasped exactly what is happening, and a simple reframing of the underlying principles that drove Moore’s Law makes the entire picture clearer.


The Data Center is the New Compute Unit: Nvidia's Vision for System-Level Scaling

<ul><li><p>Marvell had a pretty solid result and guided to sequentially better revenue.</p></li><li><p>The market didn’t like this, but I thought, looking through the result, I liked this result quite a bit. Shares did not.</p></li><li>Marvell Technology reports Q1 EPS $0.24 ex-items vs FactSet $0.24.</li></ul>

Marvell had a pretty solid result and guided to sequentially better revenue.The market didn’t like this, but I thought, looking through the result, I liked this result quite a bit. Shares did not.Marvell Technology reports Q1 EPS $0.24 ex-items vs FactSet $0.24.

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Astera Labs, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. The Company offers product portfolio includes system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and services to enable robust PCI Express connectivity. Astera Labs serves customers worldwide.

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Astera Labs IPO Preview and Valuation Analysis: Will Pricey IPO Frighten The Investors Off?

California-based Astera Labs has filed for an IPO and plans to raise up to $500M. The fabless semiconductor unicorn may be valued at more than $3B,...

Andrei Zakharov

The Data Center is the New Compute Unit: Nvidia's Vision for System-Level Scaling

Copper, Cooling, and Compute Density: The Pillars of Nvidia's Data Center Vision. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly emphasized that the data...

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Marvell Earnings

Results look fine, the market is not digging it. I think a closer look makes sense. The market didn’t like this, but I thought, looking through the...

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