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ALAB: No Sophomore Slump Here

Key Points

  • Strong beat and raise in second quarterly report as public company
  • Aries content increasing on next-gen AI platforms, including NVIDIA Blackwell
  • Multiple design wins in Blackwell family, including GB200
  • Taurus 400G SCM ramps expected across multiple AI and general compute platforms
  • 800G SCM ramping late 2025

Key Takeaways

  1. Aries content moving higher on next-gen platforms (Blackwell/GB200)
  2. Ramps on internally developed AI accelerators at hyperscalers driving further Aries retimer growth
  3. Taurus 400G/800G should contribute meaningful revenue growth in 2H24 and 2025
  4. Aries SCMs ramping for AI accelerator back-end networks

Estimate Changes

  • Estimates raised across FY24, FY25, FY26
  • DCF valuation model with multiple compression applied
  • PT lowered to $65 (from $85) to reflect likely valuation compression

Price Target & Valuation

  • New PT: $65 (from $85)
  • Valuation compression expected despite strong fundamentals
  • Recent multiple compression reflected in revised DCF

Market Cap & Valuation Metrics

  • Market cap: $6.6B at $42.48 price
  • P/E: 72.9x (FY24E), 52.1x (FY25E), 37.1x (FY26E)
  • Revenue growth: 201.9% (FY24), 43% (FY25), 35% (FY26)
  • Operating margin expansion: 26.6% → 29.9% → 35.4%

Source

  • File: ALAB-Needham-7Aug2024.pdf
  • Location: Dropbox/2. Semi/Networking/ALAB/

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  • ALAB | _MOC-networking