Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>This is our first report on major manufacurer of engineered materials and optoelectronic components, Coherent Corp.</li><li>Its recent earnings call, several key topics of discussion included the firm's financial performance, market trends, and future outlook.</li><li>In terms of financial performance, Coherent reported revenue of $1.053 billion in Q1 FY '24, slightly above the midpoint of their guidance, with an operating cash flow of $199 million marking an improvement over both the sequential and year-over-year figures.</li></ul>

This is our first report on major manufacurer of engineered materials and optoelectronic components, Coherent Corp.Its recent earnings call, several key topics of discussion included the firm's financial performance, market trends, and future outlook.In terms of financial performance, Coherent reported revenue of $1.053 billion in Q1 FY '24, slightly above the midpoint of their guidance, with an operating cash flow of $199 million marking an improvement over both the sequential and year-over-year figures.

Coherent Corp: Initiation of Coverage - Silicon Carbide Success! Inside Their Strategy to Conquer Supply Chain Challenges - Major Drivers

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors, Fabricated Knowledge

Douglas O'Laughlin

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors

Fabricated Knowledge

Learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.

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<ul><li>To make my content readable, this is an optics-only earnings update.</li><li>I will discuss everything together and put together a high-level overview.</li><li>The specific things I am interested in are Marvell’s ZR and custom silicon.</li></ul>

To make my content readable, this is an optics-only earnings update.I will discuss everything together and put together a high-level overview.The specific things I am interested in are Marvell’s ZR and custom silicon.

Optics Earnings (FN, ANET, COHR, LITE, AAOI)

Infineon Technologies  / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li><p>Infineon’s big news is that they, too, will be building one of the largest Silicon Carbide fabs in the world. This makes Wolfspeed’s Siler City look puny in comparison.</p><section class="figure"><figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"></figure></section></li><li>Infineon is now looking to be number three in the Silicon Carbide device game, targeting ~500 million in 2023.</li><li>So given the impressive growth, Infineon is a bit late but plans to spend 5 billion dollars over five years for the factory in Kulim.</li></ul>

Infineon’s big news is that they, too, will be building one of the largest Silicon Carbide fabs in the world. This makes Wolfspeed’s Siler City look puny in comparison.Infineon is now looking to be number three in the Silicon Carbide device game, targeting ~500 million in 2023.So given the impressive growth, Infineon is a bit late but plans to spend 5 billion dollars over five years for the factory in Kulim.

Earnings: MCHP and IFX, SIMO Rumors, SMCI, POWI, GFS, COHR, WOLF, AMAT, CSCO

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>Coherent’s (COHR US, not rated) stock plunged after releasing 2Q23 earnings on Wednesday.</li><li>The Company gave a bullish outlook on demand within the Datacom AI/ML sector, combined with their perspective that the present AI demand, constitutes a transformative shift rather than a short-lived cycle, which has likely influenced market sentiment.</li><li>However, Coherent’s exclusion of US$200mn AI-related sales might suggest a slower-than-expected pace in its capacity ramp-up. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Coherent’s (COHR US, not rated) stock plunged after releasing 2Q23 earnings on Wednesday.The Company gave a bullish outlook on demand within the Datacom AI/ML sector, combined with their perspective that the present AI demand, constitutes a transformative shift rather than a short-lived cycle, which has likely influenced market sentiment.However, Coherent’s exclusion of US$200mn AI-related sales might suggest a slower-than-expected pace in its capacity ramp-up. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Hardware – Optical transceivers: Implications from Coherent 2Q23 results and guidance

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

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Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jsr-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17620:1" rel="noopener">JSR Corp (4185 JP)</a>'s pre-conditional tender offer from JIC is JPY4,350 per share. Since the deal announcement on 26 June, the gross spread has averaged 6.4%.</li>
<li>The wide gross spread reflects the risk in satisfying the pre-conditions related to country approvals, particularly in China. JIC, unusually can waive all or part of the conditions precedent.</li>
<li>The wild card is geopolitical developments. There are three China approval scenarios. The likely scenario is the deal approval under a normal procedure with a delay to the tender start.</li>
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JSR Corp (4185 JP)'s pre-conditional tender offer from JIC is JPY4,350 per share. Since the deal announcement on 26 June, the gross spread has averaged 6.4%.
The wide gross spread reflects the risk in satisfying the pre-conditions related to country approvals, particularly in China. JIC, unusually can waive all or part of the conditions precedent.
The wild card is geopolitical developments. There are three China approval scenarios. The likely scenario is the deal approval under a normal procedure with a delay to the tender start.


JSR Corporation (4185 JP): Tender Offer Risk/Reward

United States

Coherent, Inc. is a global company that manufactures and sells a variety of laser-based photonic products.  The Company's products are used in manufacturing and instrumentation applications that include optical telecommunication, semiconductor manufacturing, inspection and test, advance packaging, and reprographics.  The electro-optical market consists of Fortune 500 customers.

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Coherent Inc (COHR US)

Coherent Corp: Initiation of Coverage - Silicon Carbide Success! Inside Their Strategy to Conquer Supply Chain Challenges - Major Drivers

This is our first report on major manufacurer of engineered materials and optoelectronic components, Coherent Corp. Its recent earnings call,...

Baptista Research

Optics Earnings (FN, ANET, COHR, LITE, AAOI)

To make my content readable, this is an optics-only earnings update. I will discuss everything together and put together a high-level overview.

Fabricated Knowledge

Earnings: MCHP and IFX, SIMO Rumors, SMCI, POWI, GFS, COHR, WOLF, AMAT, CSCO

Analog inventory, Coherent's ghost guide, and whipsaw China read through. Infineon’s big news is that they, too, will be building one of the...

Fabricated Knowledge

Hardware – Optical transceivers: Implications from Coherent 2Q23 results and guidance

The Company gave a bullish outlook on demand within the Datacom AI/ML sector, combined with their perspective that the present AI demand

CMB International

JSR Corporation (4185 JP): Tender Offer Risk/Reward

The wide gross spread reflects the risk in satisfying the pre-conditions related to country approvals, particularly in China. In this note, we...

Arun George

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