Celestica IncCLS.TORISKYFeb 11, 2026Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jul 06, 2026. Market Open.
It's a manufacturing company. Can they continue to grow at this level and justify a high multiple? The market overestimates their earnings and margins. So when AI emerges, you see a strong pullback. Be cautious with stocks like this which aren't consistent over time. View their PE as a manufacturing and not a tech company.
Helps build hardware behind AI and cloud infrastructure. Massive growth. Revenue jumped more than 50% last quarter. Moving into products with better margins, increasingly important in AI supply chain.
Expectations are high. She sees upside potential of 30%, price target of ~$625. No dividend.
A winner in the AI build-out: cloud infrastucture, high-speed networking and other AI-related systems. Also, they supply aerospace/defence where defence budgets have increased. Third, they're in healthtech devices. All businesses are drivers, especially AI. A lot of growth is baked into the stock, but buy on any dips, on headline about any data centres being delayed.
Instead, they own AVGO in their global fund. CLS is sort of riding the coattails of AVGO by packaging components to sell to the end consumer. Benefiting from growth in TPUs that AVGO and GOOG have been delivering. Thinks that trend will continue.
Two years ago, traded at 10x PE. Now trades at 30-35x. Lots of other companies out there do this type of work. In an eventual slowdown, may see margin and volume pressure. Could be quite volatile from here, and he'd take profits so you're just left with the house's money.
Radical transformation a few years ago. Its components are right in the wheelhouse of data centre growth, and he finds it difficult to know how long that will last. His main issue is the stretched valuation.
His go-to name in the space is TSM, also at a high valuation now.