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PAKISTAN MILITARY SPOKESMAN: SOME TIME AGO, INDIA ATTACKED PAKISTAN IN THREE LOCATIONS WITH MISSILES โ€“ ARY

PAKISTAN WILL RESPOND TO ATTACKS BY INDIA - PAKISTAN MILITARY SPOKESMAN TELLS ARY
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$ALAB | Astera Labs Q1'25 Earnings Highlights

๐Ÿ”น Revenue: $159.4M (Est: $152M) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Adj EPS: $0.33 (Est: $0.28) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Adj Oper Income: $53.7M (Est: $47M) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Gross Margin: 74.9%

Q2'25 Guidance
๐Ÿ”น Revenue: $173M (Est: $160M) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Adj EPS: $0.33 (Est: $0.30) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Adj Operating Income: $54M (Est: $51M) ๐ŸŸข

Strategic & Operational Updates
๐Ÿ”ธ Revenue up 13% QoQ and 144% YoY on strong AI/cloud demand
๐Ÿ”ธ Shipping PCIe Gen 6 Scorpio Switches and Aries 6 Retimers
๐Ÿ”ธ New NVIDIA Blackwell-based MGX platform reference design
๐Ÿ”ธ Expanded Cloud-Scale Interop Lab; showcased PCIe 6 interoperability with NVIDIA & Micron
๐Ÿ”ธ Dr. Craig Barratt appointed to Board of Directors
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PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES SPOKESPERSON SAYS FLIGHTS ALREADY AIRBORNE HAVE BEEN DIVERTED TO KARACHI
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$RIVN | Rivian Q1'25 Earnings Highlights

๐Ÿ”น Revenue: $1.24B (Est: $981.2M) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Adj Gross Profit: $206M (vs. -$527M YoY)
๐Ÿ”น Adj EBITDA: -$329M (vs. -$798M YoY)
๐Ÿ”น Cash & Equivalents: $4.69B (Est: $5.3B) ๐Ÿ”ด
๐Ÿ”น Net Loss: -$545M (vs. -$1.45B YoY)
๐Ÿ”น Gross Margin: +17% (vs. -44% YoY)

2025 Guidance
๐Ÿ”น FY Deliveries: 40Kโ€“46K (Prior: 46Kโ€“51K) ๐Ÿ”ด
๐Ÿ”น FY Adj EBITDA Loss: ($1.7B) to ($1.9B)
๐Ÿ”น FY Capex: $1.8Bโ€“$1.9B (Prior: $1.6Bโ€“$1.7B) ๐Ÿ”ด

Operational Highlights
๐Ÿ”ธ Production: 14,611 vehicles | Deliveries: 8,640
๐Ÿ”ธ Secured $1B investment from VW Group (expected June 30)
๐Ÿ”ธ Completed 36K+ demo drives in Q1, record for the company
๐Ÿ”ธ R2 development on track; first-half 2026 production timeline affirmed
๐Ÿ”ธ Partnered with HelloFresh (70 Rivian vans deployed)
๐Ÿ”ธ CEO notes ~$3,000 tariff impact per vehicle
๐Ÿ”ธ Hosting AI Day and expanding fleet partnerships
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THE INDIAN ARMED FORCES LAUNCHED โ€˜OPERATION SINDOORโ€™, HITTING TERRORIST INFRASTRUCTURE IN PAKISTAN AND PAKISTAN-OCCUPIED JAMMU AND KASHMIR -STATEMENT

NO PAKISTANI MILITARY FACILITIES HAVE BEEN TARGETED-STATEMENT
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$AMD Q1'25 Earnings Highlights

๐Ÿ”น Revenue: $7.44B (Est: $7.11B) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Non-GAAP EPS: $0.96 (Est: $0.95) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Non-GAAP Gross Margin: 54% (vs. 52% YoY)

Segment Highlights
๐Ÿ”น Data Center: $3.7B (โ†‘57% YoY) โ€“ driven by EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs
๐Ÿ”น Client + Gaming: $2.9B (โ†‘28% YoY)
๐Ÿ”น Client: $2.3B (โ†‘68% YoY) โ€“ driven by Zen 5 Ryzen demand
๐Ÿ”น Gaming: $647M (โ†“30% YoY) โ€“ decline in semi-custom
๐Ÿ”น Embedded: $823M (โ†“3% YoY)

Q2 Outlook
๐Ÿ”น Revenue: ~$7.4B ยฑ $300M (in-line)
๐Ÿ”น Non-GAAP Gross Margin: 43% including $800M inventory charge
๐Ÿ”น Excluding charge, Gross Margin: ~54%

Strategic & Product Highlights
๐Ÿ”ธ Closed ZT Systems acquisition to strengthen data center presence
๐Ÿ”ธ Frontier AI support expanded (Meta Llama 4, Google Gemma 3) via ROCm stack
๐Ÿ”ธ Dell, Jio, Cisco, Nokia partnerships across AI/Telecom
๐Ÿ”ธ Radeon RX 9070 XT and Ryzen 9950X3D launched for gaming/content creation
๐Ÿ”ธ Core42 deploying Instinct GPUs to power Franceโ€™s top AI center
๐Ÿ”ธ Supports UALink 1.0 standard; continues hyperscaler momentum (Oracle, Google)
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$AMD Q1 Earnings ๐Ÿšจ

โ€ข Revenue $7.4B vs $7.2B Est.
โ€ข EPS $0.96 vs. $0.93 Est.
โ€ข Data center revenue $3.7B vs $3.52B Est.

Q2 Outlook: $7.10B-$7.70 vs $7.24B Est.
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INDIA ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ GOVT: "OUR ACTIONS HAVE BEEN FOCUSED, MEASURED AND NON-ESCALATORY IN NATURE"

THE INDIAN ARMED FORCES LAUNCHED โ€˜OPERATION SINDOORโ€™, HITTING TERRORIST INFRASTRUCTURE IN PAKISTAN AND PAKISTAN-OCCUPIED JAMMU AND KASHMIR -STATEMENT

NO PAKISTANI MILITARY FACILITIES HAVE BEEN TARGETED-STATEMENT
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RT @DimitryNakhla: A quality valuation analysis on $ANET ๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธ

โ€ขNTM P/E Ratio: 32.74x
โ€ข10-Year Mean: 31.71x

โ€ขNTM FCF Yield: 3.13%
โ€ข10-Year Mean: 3.42%

As you can see, $ANET appears to be trading near fair value

Going forward, investors can expect to receive ~3% LESS in earnings per share & ~8% LESS in FCF per share๐Ÿง ***

Before we get into valuation, letโ€™s take a look at why $ANET is a quality business

BALANCE SHEETโœ…
โ€ขCash & Equivalents: $8.30B
โ€ขLong-Term Debt: $0

$ANET has an excellent balance sheet

RETURN ON CAPITALโœ…
โ€ข2019: 24.8%
โ€ข2020: 19.3%
โ€ข2021: 22.1%
โ€ข2022: 30.9%
โ€ข2023: 31.0%
โ€ข2024: 29.3%

RETURN ON EQUITYโœ…
โ€ข2019: 34.1%
โ€ข2020: 20.4%
โ€ข2021: 23.0%
โ€ข2022: 30.5%
โ€ข2023: 34.5%
โ€ข2024: 33.1%

$ANET has great return metrics, highlighting the financial efficiency of the business

REVENUESโœ…
โ€ข2019: $2.41B
โ€ข2024: $7.00B
โ€ขCAGR: 23.77%

FREE CASH FLOWโœ…
โ€ข2019: $0.95B
โ€ข2024: $3.68B
โ€ขCAGR: 31.10%

NORMALIZED EPSโœ…
โ€ข2019: $0.61
โ€ข2024: $2.27
โ€ขCAGR: 30.05%

SHARE BUYBACKS๐Ÿ†—
โ€ข2019 Shares Outstanding: 1.29B
โ€ขLTM Shares Outstanding: 1.28B

MARGINSโœ…
โ€ขLTM Gross Margins: 64.1%
โ€ขLTM Operating Margins: 42.0%
โ€ขLTM Net Income Margins: 40.7%

***NOW TO VALUATION ๐Ÿง 

As stated above, investors can expect to receive ~3% LESS in EPS & ~8% LESS in FCF per share

Using Benjamin Grahamโ€™s 2G rule of thumb, $ANET has to grow earnings at a 16.37% CAGR over the next several years to justify its valuation

Today, analysts anticipate 2025 - 2027 EPS growth over the next few years to be slightly less than the (16.37%) required growth rate:

2025E: $2.49 (9.9% YoY) *FY Dec
2026E: $2.96 (18.7% YoY)
2027E: $3.61 (22.0% YoY)

$ANET has a great track record of meeting analyst estimates ~2 years out, but letโ€™s assume $ANET ends 2027 with $3.61 in EPS & see its CAGR potential assuming different multiples

32x P/E: $115.52๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~14.2% CAGR

30x P/E: $108.30๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~11.6% CAGR

29x P/E: $101.08๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~8.8% CAGR

28x P/E: $93.86๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~6.0% CAGR

As you can see, weโ€™d have to assume >30x multiple for $ANET to have attractive return potential

At 29x earnings $ANET has decent CAGR potential

However, we must be aware of the risk that if data center demand cools, we could see downward revisions in already aggressive growth estimates that could lead to a 10% - 15% multiple contraction

While $ANET is an excellent business, it may not have the same level of predictability as other quality compounders, so we should require a greater margin of safety

If I want to own $ANET, Iโ€™d likely consider buying in tranches, 1/3 at $80, 1/3 at $70 & 1/3 at $60
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๐ƒ๐ˆ๐’๐‚๐‹๐Ž๐’๐”๐‘๐„โ€ผ๏ธ: ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐Ž๐“ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐€๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž. ๐๐š๐›๐ฒ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅยฎ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐›๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ ๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ.

๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐จ๐›๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ฒ.
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$CPNG | Coupang Q1'25 Earnings Highlights

๐Ÿ”น Revenue: $7.90B (Est: $8.06B) ๐Ÿ”ด
๐Ÿ”น Gross Profit: $2.30B (Gross Margin: 29.3%)
๐Ÿ”น Adj EBITDA: $382M (Est: $373.7M) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Net Income: $114M (Est: $87.6M) ๐ŸŸข
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$LCID | Lucid Q1'25 Earnings Highlights

๐Ÿ”น Revenue: $235M (Est: $246.0M) ๐Ÿ”ด
๐Ÿ”น EPS: ($0.20) (Est: -$0.23) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Net Loss: $366.2M (Est: -$719.2M) ๐ŸŸข
๐Ÿ”น Operating Loss: $691.9M (Est: -$683.7M) ๐Ÿ”ด

Operational Metrics
๐Ÿ”น Vehicles Produced: 2,212 (excludes 600+ units in transit to KSA)
๐Ÿ”น Vehicles Delivered: 3,109 (+58% YoY)
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LUCID $LCID MIGHT START PRODUCTION OF MIDSIZE VEHICLE IN SAUDI ARABIA INSTEAD OF US GIVEN TARIFF IMPACT; PLANS NOT FINAL - INTERIM CEO
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INDIA ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ SAYS CARRIED OUT STRIKE AT TERRORIST CAMPS IN PAKISTAN
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โ Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capitalยฎ
Pepsiโ€™s $PEP FCF | Dividends Paid๐Ÿฅค

2017: $7.06B | $4.47B (63%)
2018: $6.13B | $4.93B
2019: $5.42B | $5.30B
2020: $6.37B | $5.51B
2021: $6.99B | $5.82B
2022: $5.60B | $6.17B
2023: $7.92B | $6.68B
2024: $7.19B | $7.23B (101%)

Dividends as a % of FCF, not what you want to see ๐Ÿ””
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