TSP Weekly Tech Stock Update—July 13, 2024
This Week: AAPL/GOOGL new record highs, Elastic shares on the move, HUBS loses its takeover premium, Wolfe is bullish on MNDY, Microsoft improves its AI standing, AWS growth in the spotlight & more.
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—JP Morgan is forecasting Amazon (AMZN, $194.49) AWS revenue growth acceleration throughout 2024, powered by easing optimizations, new workload migrations, ramping generative AI monetization and favorable year-over-year comps.
JP Morgan’s AWS growth outlook:
Q2: +18% (accelerating from +17% in Q1)
Q3: +19%
Q4: +20%
The firm maintains its Amazon price target of $240. At the start of this week, the stock hit a new all-time high of $201.20.
— KeyBanc raised its Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR, $855.67) price target to $975 from $850, saying it expects the company to maintain 80%+ share on NVIDIA’s Hopper/Blackwell platforms in power solutions. The firm looks for Blackwell to provide Monolithic with a 40% ASP uplift versus Hopper as power requirements increase from 700W to 1000W.
Monolithic's position in AI and an improving traditional datacenter business should support enterprise data revenue of more than $1 billion in 2025, says KeyBanc.
On Thursday, Monolithic shares hit a new all-time high of $876.65. Way back in November 2015 (TSP #165), when the stock was trading around $64.50, we called out Monolithic as a “smaller chipmaker with promising growth prospects thanks to a new product cycle.” At the time, the 2015 consensus revenue estimate for Monolithic was $332 million. Today, the 2024 consensus revenue estimate stands at $2.07 billion, with the 2025 consensus at $2.51 billion.
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