Motley Fool Money - Another Wild Day in the Market
Episode Date: August 7, 2024(00:21) Kirsten Guerra and Mary Long discuss: - Why SuperMicro stock is down bad after boasting nearly 150% revenue growth. - Whether Airbnb's slump is due to a company problem or a macro one. -The i...mportance of celebrating wins, even when you’ve got losses. Then, at (15:59), Rick Munarriz and Ricky Mulvey take a look at Roku, and what needs to happen for the company to finally turn a profit. Companies mentioned: SMCI, NVDA, META, ABNB, AXON Host: Mary Long Guests: Kirsten Guerra, Rick Munarriz, Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Austin Morgan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Stocks are moving. You're listening to Motley Full Money. I'm Mary Long, joined today by Kirsten Gara.
Kirsten, pleasure to have you here. Great to be here on such a news-filled day.
Yeah, we are certainly not at a loss for things to talk about today. But one story out of the many
that I wanted to hit with you was about super microcomputer because you and I last talked about
this company in the spring when the stock shot up effectively overnight. And this is a
company, for those that don't know, that make server and storage systems for data centers.
They specialize in what they call green computing, so that's highly efficient, energy-saving
infrastructure that's customizable to the needs of different businesses.
They reported earnings yesterday, and the stock dropped about 17% last I checked this morning
as a result. Again, this is a company that is no stranger to big swings in its stock price
in either direction. But before we look at the reaction, want to look at the results. So fourth-quarter
revenue up almost 150% year over year for Super Micro.
Full year revenue also up over 100%.
Looking ahead to the first quarter of 2025, management's guiding for revenue growth
between 183 and 230%.
I am not a mathematician, but here's what I know.
Those are big, big percentages.
Kirsten, how in the world does that happen?
I'm here to confirm those are big percentages.
How does it happen?
Well, you start with selling a lot of RAC scale server solutions, which you beautifully laid
out. That is what this company's core competency is. Add to that a record high backlog.
Everyone is clamoring for super micro solutions. Then in all honesty, add in a sprinkle of
delayed revenue recognition for roughly 800 million of product that couldn't be delivered until
just after the reported quarter because of a component shortage. So we will see that actually
show up the next quarter that they report, which is their Q1. That's why it looks like revenue
is accelerating even further from the 100 to, you know, what you said, somewhere around 200%
in the next quarter. Either way, wherever that revenue landed, it was going to be incredible
percentages, right? So even without that, absolutely incredible growth numbers. Something that stuck out
to me when looking at this company, there's a chart on the second page of their earnings
presentation that compares super micro's growth to that of the industry.
it's a pretty easy chart to describe over audio.
Basically, you have two lines, one which represents super micros growth, the other that
represents unnamed competitor's growth.
The competitor's growth is effectively a flat line.
Super micros is a flat line until it shoots way up, and that's basically the chart.
I'm not going to cast aspersions about the design or the style of this chart, though I have a few.
You can say it.
It's not the most beautiful chart.
It's not, yeah.
It's clear that these are maybe not creatives that designed this chart.
But looking at that, Kristen, how is that an accurate representation?
Again, these competitors remained unnamed.
So who are supermicros competitors in this industry?
And how does growth realistically compare?
Yeah, their main competitors are going to be other value-added resellers,
the likes of Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo.
Basically, what all of these companies do is put together other manufacturers, parts,
into a hole, as you said, these full rack scale server solutions. Their competitors tend to build
sort of simpler off-the-shelf configurations. And hey, there's nothing wrong with that, right?
They're cheaper for the end customer, and in many cases, they get the job done. That's all that's needed.
Super Micro instead builds these hyper-personalized systems that are also far more power-efficient.
And so, like I said, all of these companies have done well for themselves in this field over the years.
Unfortunately, as you said in the chart right now, it looks kind of like a flat line for everyone else, but they've done well.
Ultimately, though, if what a customer needs is really power-intensive compute with highly flexible storage and networking,
then Super Micro actually becomes far cheaper in the eyes of the competitor on a total cost of ownership basis.
And so the more energy-intensive compute that's required, the more attractive they're going to become.
So what has been driving all the recent build-out of servers and data centers recently?
It's AI, right? Which is...
Soccer.
Yeah, I know. It's an incredibly compute-intensive technology, and it's only growing more so.
Mark Zuckerberg at Meta said recently that L-L-LM, their AI, that they plan to release in 2025
will require 10 times the compute just of Lama 3 from this year, right?
So this is incredible tailwinds, these AI tail ones.
I don't know exactly the sourcing of the chart.
I can't say whether the staggering scale is exactly right.
But the general sentiment is absolutely true.
Their products are becoming way more attractive based on the current needs of the landscape.
And if you listen to management, that will only continue to be all the more true in the future.
This is a company that did nearly $15 billion in revenue for this past fiscal year.
the CEO had announced previously that he expected the company to do $20 billion in sales by the end of this year or early next.
That once felt like a super lofty goal.
Now you look at those numbers and it feels actually attainable.
So the new target, according to management, is $50 billion in revenue.
Again, that seems like a big jump, but is that actually within reach on a reasonable timeline?
It could be.
It could be reasonable.
And here's why.
Let me take you back one year ago, August 22.
23, when I first started looking at this company, at that time, the trailing 12 months revenue
for Super Micro was about $7 billion.
That was when CEO Charles Liang suggested that $20 billion could be achieved for them in, quote,
just a couple of years.
That seemed wild, but after assessing his track record, I thought it was actually believable
based on his past performance in making these kinds of predictions.
Fast forward to today, that prediction is very much on track.
Revenue more than doubled in a year.
Not only does that 20 billion no longer seem impossible, his guidance in this quarter suggests
it could almost happen next quarter.
That would be a timeline of 15 months versus his initial prediction of just a couple of years,
which already seemed wild, right?
For me, the takeaway from all of this has been that when Charles Liang makes a forward
prediction, investors should probably listen.
He has really high visibility into demand in this area.
This is a company with a major backlog.
He has very close working relationships with the CEOs of companies like Nvidia and AMD.
So, yeah, I think investors should listen.
Guidance going forward just for the next fiscal year puts the company in the range of ending with 26 to 30 billion in revenue.
So doubling again after it just doubled.
Again, it's a wild prediction, but he hasn't steered us wrong so far.
So we've talked a lot about revenue thus far.
And again, that growth has been really impressive.
but it seems that while revenue has exploded for Super Micro, it hasn't gotten as efficient at turning
that revenue into a profit. So what's going on there? Why is there a disconnect?
Yeah, the gross margin has slowly degraded in recent quarters. You described a chart,
so I want to do the second best thing for listeners that every listener loves, and that's just
recite a couple numbers at you, okay? Their gross margin for the last five quarters has gone from
17% to 16.7, 15.4, 15.5, and 11.2.
So you can see there is a steady decline, but a real drop-off in the most recent quarter.
And this is really what spooked investors.
So we talked about AI tailwinds are really what's driving Super Micro here.
But that's the same tailwind that's driving Nvidia.
And this is maybe what's confusing to some investors is that with Nvidia, the more they sell,
the more operating leverage they're seeing.
So that gross margin keeps rising.
So why can't it be the same for Super Micro?
For one, Super Micro will simply never have the same level of operating leverage that
NVIDIA does.
Invidia has more fixed costs, where Super Micro has more costs that scale with production,
like the labor of actually assembling all of these hyper-customized systems.
So investors should really never expect Super Micro's gross margins to explode in the same way
that NVIDios can.
But more specifically on this quarter, they did point to a change in customer and product mix,
which really should be read that they're going after more hyperscalers.
And at that scale, they're offering greater discounts.
And then they also point to initial production costs on new direct liquid cooling technology.
This is something that they expect to be a big growth driver in the future.
So, you know, investment could make a lot of sense here.
the CEO did say that he expects short-term margin pressure will ease and expects it to return to
normal by the end of fiscal year 25. That is a year away. So definitely something to watch. But I
think a lot of this could make sense for the company. Okay. So speaking of making sense,
this is a stock that, as we've mentioned, has seen some wild swings over the past year.
It's down about 16, 17 percent this morning. Last I checked on these results a year ago,
it was trading at about $230. Today, it's over $500, but last night, it was around $600. Earlier this year,
it was nearly $1,200. Can you make all that make sense for me, please?
That's a volatile stock, Mary. What do you want for me? No, it is. It's volatile. And volatility
really means both up and down movements dramatically in either way, right? And we tend to talk about it
when it's down, but it does mean both directions. By March of,
this year, Super Micro was up 300% year to date. That's volatile just as much as a drop of, what is it,
16, 17%, 17% today this morning, something around that. And I know it can be really hard to watch
all of this back and forth in the stock, but the truth is, if you had invested at the beginning
of the year in Super Micro, and you just looked away for eight months and you looked back for the
first time today, an 82% or so return is still incredible. So I can't make the market make
No, but I think if we just keep focus on the business fundamentals, they are still a better company
than they were yesterday, and Super Micro is still doing really well for itself and for investors.
Super Micro is not the only stock that's susceptible to wild swings in the market that sometimes
we struggle to make sense of. Another stock seeing some dramatic reactions this morning was
Airbnb, also down about 16, 17 percent this morning. While the company reported record
nights and experience is booked in the second quarter,
They warned looking ahead of slower demand in the U.S. for the rest of the year.
So right off the bat, Kirsten, is this an Airbnb story or is this a macro consumer story?
I love this question because just yesterday I was trying to run Airbnb through my company quality framework.
And one of the questions is, is the company's success driven more by internal factors than external factors?
And I was breezing through when I got to that one.
I just did the thing where I stared at the screen.
Like, is it?
Is it?
And it's tough.
It certainly is susceptible to macro.
But at the same time, Airbnb is a company with a really close customer feedback loop.
They listen closely to their customers and their data.
They constantly iterate to make those experiences better.
For example, this quarter management share that more than 80% of bookings on Airbnb are group trips.
And so they added a bunch of group focused features like shared wish lists, trip invitations, group messaging with hosts, things like that.
And so I don't think any slowness in demand is due to, you know, lack of focus from Airbnb or anything like that, anything they've done wrong.
So it is a macro signal in some cases.
But I also wouldn't take it as some big signal.
We know nothing really about the extent beyond the line in their shareholder letter that, quote,
we are seeing shorter booking lead times globally and some signs of slowing demand from U.S. guests.
That's it.
Shorter booking lead times really just means they have less visibility than usual.
it's not a sure sign that anything dramatic is coming, or it could be. We'll see. Yeah,
and it's a short line that's set off quite the dip. But if someone wanted to, perhaps they could
make this an Airbnb story by pointing out that. Are you about to make it an Airbnb story?
I'm going to try. I'm going to play that role for you. Okay. So revenue increased,
something similar, right, to what we just discussed with Super Micro. Revenue increased year over
year, not those 100% gains at Super Micro saw, but 11%, nothing to laugh at. But net income was down 15%
compared to the year prior. So where'd that money go? It's kind of a mix of places. They lost
about a percentage point on gross margin. That's direct product or platform cost. And then they
lost two percentage points on operating costs, one coming from SG&A, their general and administrative
cost about half a percent to research and development. So it is spread all over the place.
And a lot of that, or some of that, a good contributor of that is stock-based compensation
increase. It rose faster this quarter or over the past year than headcount did. Some good news
on that front, though. At the end of 2024, that will be the last that we'll see of this
more unpredictable increase in stock-based comp because this 2024 will be the last of the sort of
double-triggered RSUs that they used to issue pre-IPO. So they'll sort of all run out.
They will have either invested or expired. And really what that means going forward is just
that stock-based comp should rise more in line with headcount. And it will make it a much more
predictable number for investors. So hopefully we will see a little bit less of this surprise drop
in these margins, even when revenue is growing pretty solidly.
We spent most of our time this morning talking about two stocks that
that suffered from market reactions, but there are other companies that today saw the opposite reaction
that saw quite positive reactions on their earnings. Earlier this week, we saw a lot of fear driving
things in the market. There's been a lot of up and downs just over the past few days.
As we wrap up for the day, do you have any parting thoughts on how you're thinking about
in either direction, all of the drama that seems to be overwhelming markets right now?
I try not to think too much in both directions. I like to do.
Just focus on the wins.
I own both Airbnb and Axon that you named.
And I'll probably just spend more time celebrating the Axon win today than I will worrying on the Airbnb loss.
That may sound silly.
They're both there, right?
But it just keeps me going.
It keeps me investing.
Keeping investing is the goal.
Kirsten, thanks so much for the time.
As always, lovely to chat with you.
Thanks for coming on to Motley Full Money.
Thanks for having me.
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Roku gets 120 million eyeballs on its home screen each day.
And yet, even with that, the company hasn't been able to turn a profit.
Up next, full contributor, Rick Munares, joins Ricky Moldy for a look at the streaming
stock that's down nearly 90% from its all-time highs.
If you think of Top Dogs in streaming, your mind probably goes to Netflix.
But there's another company with some top dog categories, but you wouldn't know it if you look at its stock chart.
Roku is a streaming platform and makes streaming devices.
It's the number one TV operating system by unit sales and hours streamed.
But as the company has added households and grown revenue, its operating loss has not turned into a profit.
Rick Munairis, this is one of the more controversial companies in the full universe,
and I appreciate you being here to talk about it.
Thank you. I'm here for the controversy.
Let's get it. First, let's talk about the gem of this company, though, and that is the Roku
home screen. Every day, 120 million people look at it, and for context, the average viewership
of the Super Bowl was about 123 million people, according to Nielsen. So let's talk about
the home screen. What does Roku do with that, and what does it mean for its business?
Yeah, so if you think of Super Bowl, three, three and a half hours long, is two,
long, depending on the halftime show, I guess. Roku users, they spend an average more than four
hours, cradling that Roku remote. So clearly, they're on there the whole time. Most of that
time isn't spent on Roku as far as Roku's experience. Basically, you click on the Netflix button,
you're taking to Netflix, and you're in Netflix's world. Click the YouTube button on the app
or on the remote. You're in YouTube's world. A lot of that time is spent off Roku itself,
but it's there. So it's sort of like, let's say, like, maybe it's like the traffic cop of streaming,
or maybe probably better is like the Walmart reader,
if this Walmart reader would follow you around for four hours as you shopped,
taking copious notes of everything you're doing so it gets smarter and better,
that when you leave and you come back, turn your face to turn back and go to the main page,
which is basically the Walmart reader, which is basically the Roku operating system,
is starting to say, oh, you might like this or that, just like Netflix does while you're
streaming Netflix, except in this case, Roku is getting financially incentivized
to push certain properties your way. So yeah, it does a lot of neat things with its
its ability to have such a dominant chunk of a very popular pastime, which is us streaming on TV.
Roku also has sort of an Apple tax position. For example, with Netflix, what is the relationship
between Roku and Netflix? Yes, so Roku and Netflix, they go way back to like the early days
when Netflix wanted to start streaming. They brought in CEO, Anthony Wood, to help him create this
box that Netflix eventually abandoned, and that led to the creation of Roku itself. But on the
prospectus when they went public at $14 a share back in 2017, it basically said, yeah, we're a free
platform. We're making money for many sources, but Netflix revenue is not material, in quotes, to what
they're doing. So Netflix didn't really have to advertise, so they weren't really giving a lot of
Roku money that way. They don't necessarily share ad revenue, because they had no ads at that point
on Netflix. So really, Netflix, even though it is the largest streaming, premium streaming platform,
YouTube is actually larger in the world of things as far as time spent.
on a platform in front of your TV. It's not a material contributor. Their money's mostly made through
a lot of the others when the Hulu or when a peacock or when a Paramount Plus, when they want to get
noticed, they're the ones that have to cut checks because they need to. You have to get on that
home screen. And then the other company that has an interesting relationship is the Trade Desk,
as more companies, as more streaming companies introduce ads onto the platform. How's that work for
the Trade Desk in Roku? Yeah, it was great to see. But again, it's not,
something, it's great, it's a great headline. The story itself, I don't think it's
necessarily something that's like, you know, seismic, but it is a win-win situation.
Basically, back in April, the trade desk, obviously the leader in programmatic advertising and
a major player, but not the ultimate player in Connected TV, got together with Roku.
Roku has, as I mentioned earlier, that the little Walmart reader taking the little information,
they have all this data. So they basically teamed up together so that Roku, the trade desk
advertisers that are on the platform can get on Roku.
and lean on Roku's behavioral data to basically optimize their ad campaigns on Roku.
So the two companies are sort of working together.
Each company is getting a little smarter in the process.
But again, it's a win-win, but I don't think it's something that's going to be materially,
it's not going to be a financial contributor in major way in the near term.
In the long term, obviously, you know, that basically validates Roku as a platform.
They're paying for data and you get a nice headline out of it.
One story, we'll see if this is a major contributor, is the Roku channel,
which is the number three app on Roku.
When we talk about streaming,
we talk a lot about paid stuff with Netflix, Disney Plus,
that kind of thing.
But the Roku channel is the number three streaming app on there.
It might help that the Roku channel has a relationship with Roku.
But they also are seeing streaming hours dramatically increase on that channel
up 75% year over year.
What's Roku trying to do with free TV with their business?
Yeah, so I was one of probably many when the Roku channel, when they actually launched the Roku channel, wondering, why are you doing this? You have this whole agnosticism appeal that unlike, you know, let's say a Google or an Amazon or an Apple TV plus that Apple TV rather, that they want you to basically go to their platform. Roku was here. Hey, we're open to basically thousands of apps. Come on in. We're not biased. We know what we want. But then they started acquiring content. They started picking up small content in bits and pieces.
And in the process, the Roku channel became a thing.
And everything from now, like from the Olympics to live sports to live programming to live TV to actual growing catalog of stuff they have available,
it's become a big player.
And it's actually helping in the fact that now they're less reliant on the other streaming services to be a contributor in their revenue sharing for ads because they basically be collected all.
But more importantly, it also makes Roku almost the same as like a Netflix or a Hulu that you have to.
subscribe to because you want to see that specific content, Roku's the same way now.
You may as well just get a Roku operating system, or if you get an Apple, I have a
couple of Amazon Fire TVs at home. And the first thing I do is I just, you know, take the
HDMI and boom, and goes a Roku stick. And I think you're seeing that happen that more people
are realizing, hey, Roku is the way to go in that sense. It does, it's very valuable in that sense,
but the Roku channels is just one piece for something of a platform that just works intuitively
and seamlessly.
Let's talk about the unit economics, because this is where you get the bearish knocks on Roku's
business. Basically, the company makes money as you spend time on the platform. It loses money
when you buy a Roku device. But now it's the number one TV operating system. How's this
company not making an operating profit? Yeah, so again, this is one of these things where,
yeah, an actual profit. No, no. I mean, it was profitable for a little while back in 2021 for about
a year or so. And then it just started investing in content and all these things that company do
to try to scale up and platform. But you do have the case where the company, while it's not
general learning a profit, the losses have narrowed substantially. And more importantly, just a matter
of just cash flow, it's been free cash flow positive. And I mean nine figure trailing 12-month
free cash flow for each of the last four quarters, just an EBITDA, cash from operations.
All these have been positive over the last year every single quarter. So this is a company
that is getting there. It's generating money, even though.
on the bottom line. Once you do all the accounting, it doesn't work out that way.
But it is a company that's doing better on that front.
And obviously, the growth has been phenomenal.
This was a company that started back in 2017 when it was public.
It was 19 million subscribers.
Average revenue per user for the trailing 4 quarters was $13.
Now it's basically triple that in the fact, quadruple to use this now more than 83 million users
and more than $40 a share over the last 12 months in average revenue per user.
So it is expanding on that.
But yeah, it does have to take a hit on the hardware, as you mentioned.
But then again, so does Amazon.
You know that when you're buying that 1999 fire stick,
it's costing them a lot more to make that and ship it to you.
Same thing with Google.
They're also heavy subsidizers of their hardware.
That's the game you have to play.
This has been a platform company.
The hardware is just their means to an end.
There does seem to be a little bit of a comparison with Spotify, I think, here,
where there's a lot of bearish knocks that, oh, the unit economics don't work.
It's not going to be able to become profitable.
Maybe it's got some levers to pull that it can change it in the future.
What lovers would you like to see Roku pull to do that?
Yes.
I mean, I'm a fan of Spotify, a major user of Spotify.
But to me, I like Roku better in the sense in that Spotify isn't investing in hardware.
When they have, it hasn't worked out too well.
But they do have all this music licensing royalties that they have to pay in all these things.
Whereas Roku's just sitting back and collecting the checks for the most part.
It's a different way the relationship was working.
But I would like to see them do the fact that just increased average revenue per user.
Obviously, advertising has not been as great.
The recovery post-pandemic has not been as buoyant as I think most of the Bulls, Roku Bulls would like to see.
And also, again, I hated the Roku channel first, but now I like it.
And as long as they're making smart financial moves to acquire content, I'm all for it.
And I think it just needs to keep growing that way, expanding itself.
And I think as more services, just you mentioned Spotify, they increased their prices a couple months ago this summer, actually.
and you've had other services like Macs and stuff that are increasing prices.
As services increase prices, they need to get notice more, and that's going to be better for Roku.
CEO Anthony Wood, founder of the company, has 50% voting power, more than 50% voting power,
excuse me.
So if you're a retail investor, you are very much riding with Anthony Wood.
What do investors who don't know a lot about Anthony Wood, what should they know about him as a leader?
Yes.
So, if you have, like, let's say, a Hall of Fame streaming TV place, he'd be a first
ballot shoe in.
And again, before Roku, he created a company called Replay TV, which is not going to be known
by most listeners, but they're the company that invented the DVR, the digital video recorder.
TiVo, which came out at the same time, took all the thunder and became the DVR company.
But there certainly were a few lawsuits here and there for replay TV to claim it.
But, again, Anthony Wood is widely viewed as the creator of the DVR.
Roku is Japanese for the number six.
This is something that I think a lot of people know.
I know we say it a lot.
But the thing is, he's been at this company for so long.
And again, as I mentioned earlier,
Roku started out of just a Netflix relationship where he was there to create a box.
Oh, Netflix is going to go that route.
And he's like, Wood is, well, wait, I can do this on my own.
And Poof was released from Netflix and created Roku and since then done great.
So I do not think that Wood is actually Googling how to say,
how to translate the number seven in Japanese.
I think he's here to stay.
but clearly a visionary. And despite the fact that the company is not profitable right now and the
stock is definitely well below its 2021 high, he's definitely the right person for the job and clearly
doing a lot of things to make it happen. Yeah, so I own some Roku personally, and I know one of
your largest positions. You post your largest holdings on X, and Roku's not there because of its
performance. So, Rick, why do you have so much conviction in this company?
Yeah, so again, this is a stack that while it's done terribly over the last, I mean, it doubled more than doubled last year, and it's still trading higher than it was at the beginning of last year, but it's gone down quite a bit from now, down almost 85, 90 percent from its peak in 2021, so clearly a lot of pain. But the stock, again, it has, from going public at 14, it's more than tripled in seven years, which is great if you got in then or maybe somewhere else, but obviously most people are feeling a lot of pain. But to me, this is a company that even though the subscriber base has grown fourfold,
Their average revenue per user has more than tripled. So actually increasing faster, stack both
those two things. And you have a company that's going basically 12-fold, the revenue that it was
back then. And the stock is really only trading three times as high. That to me seems like an imbalance.
And I think there's value there. I think Roku is trading cheap fundamentally on a trailing
revenue basis historically and based on the fact that it's improving its bottom line with every
passing quarter. It's getting better at that. And again, to me, the engagement is really all that
matters. The moment that I see that Netflix, I'm sorry, that Roku subscribers are starting to decline
or usage is starting to decline, my bullish thesis may change, but right now over the past year,
in a time when people are saying, oh, people can go out and have fun, no one wants to be home streaming.
The number of accounts have grown by 14 percent to 83.6 million over the past year. The numbers
of our streams is basically 10 billion a month, up 20 percent over the past year. So with usage
passing the growth, it means that, again, people are spending more than four hours on average a day,
on the platform. I don't want to bet against Roku, even if it seems like the Bulls do not have
much of an argument these days with the stock being hit so hard. Four hours a day, that's basically
a smartphone. Rick Mineris, appreciate you being here. Thanks for your time and your insight. Thank you.
As always, people in the program may have interest in the stocks they talk about. And the Motley Fool
may have formal recommendations for or against, so don't buy ourselves stocks based solely on what
you hear. I'm Mary Long. Thanks for listening. We'll see you tomorrow.
