Decoding Celestica: How Custom AI Hardware Is The Most Important Catalyst (Archive)
Celestica is uniquely positioned to benefit from hyper-scaler custom AI hardware deployment trends.
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Elevator Pitch
- Celestica stands to win from Alphabet's $85B capital raise to fund AI capex because it is a key manufacturing partner for Google's tensor processing units (TPUs).
- Strategic involvement in the Jalapeño project positions Celestica to benefit from multi-year deployments of next-generation custom AI accelerator chips designed by OpenAI and Broadcom through 2029.
- I expect insourced custom silicon development to be the next major trend. This is a structural tailwind for Celestica via both revenue growth and margin expansion.
- CLS stock trades in line with its comps set but has flattish stock drivers in terms of its valuation multiple and earnings expectations.
- Technical analysis reveals a robust long-term uptrend and healthy momentum, suggesting the stock remains well-positioned for potential gains as the custom hardware development cycle matures.
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