Celestica IncCLS.TOPARTIAL BUYApr 21, 2025Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Sep 22, 2026. Market Open.
Bottomed out. He just wrote a put on this recently. One of the cheapest on PEG that you're going to get in the space. Growing ~76%, trading at a much lower multiple than that. Highly cyclical play. Trades at 16x PE for 2027. Strong, visible growth out to 2029.
Put it in a non-registered account, where you don't mind taking some risk.
Think of it as a Canadian DELL. Largely tied to GOOG's capex, the TPU program, and networking. Benefiting from the super-cycle. Not sure inside the AI trade is the best place to park capital. As supply starts catching up with demand, chances to earn outsized margins start compressing.
Not expensive today. Don't sell. Keep an open mind to ASML or TSM (for more stability).
Very much aligned with the entire platform being built out, not just individual components. Direct exposure and concentration to the hyperscalers as customers. He thinks those capex numbers are going up, so there's still upside in this name. But with any narrative shift, this will get sold off first.
In a massive growth segment, with the AI infrastructure buildout. Strategically in a very good position. If you have your heart set on this one, valuation is very reasonable at below 20x PE. Yet FCF is fairly meagre, which indicates valuation is still stretched. Watch and wait.
Instead, he uses TSM for client portfolios. Valuations in the space tend to be fairly rich. So this name isn't a buy today. Watch and wait on this one too.
Trades at 41x PE. It comes down to whether demand will continue to rise with AI spending. If so, profits will continue to be profitable with EPS to jump from $10 in 2026 to $15 in 2027, then $19 in 2028, then $26 in 2029. CLS comes down to how much you want to pay for it. Beta is a volatile 2.04, twice as much as the TSX. So, earnings is very important.
Its volume traded has picked up over the past couple of years as its stock has performed well, but per our rough math on a weekly basis it has been trading about 4% of its total outstanding shares.
CLS has about 116M shares outstanding, and the average daily volume in 2025 is about 1M shares. On a 5-day week, that means roughly 5M shares trade out of 116M total outstanding. It is pretty liquid at a $13.5B market cap, and while it has declined significantly alongside the broader market, we continue to like the name.
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