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  "ticker": "SNX",
  "name": "TD SYNNEX Corporation",
  "url": "https://orbyd.app/dossiers/SNX/",
  "json_url": "https://orbyd.app/dossiers/SNX.json",
  "status": "HELD",
  "current_conviction": "LOW",
  "graded_conviction": null,
  "archetype": {
    "code": "a3",
    "n": 3
  },
  "current_thesis": "The 2026-08-04 breakout above the July band failed within three sessions — SNX closed $252.42 on 2026-08-07, back inside the $235.67–$255.70 range and under the 50-day. The move up came on Arista's print, not company news; Hyve's +117% billings leg stays unconfirmed until ~2026-09-24, and the nearest dated read is Dell on 2026-09-03.",
  "invalidation_trigger": "A weekly close below $234 retraces the entire advance off the 2026-06-25 print and loses the $235.67 July base floor. Secondary: Dell guiding ISG materially under the ~75% growth flagged 2026-05-28, at its 2026-09-03 Q2 FY2027 print.",
  "catalyst_date": "2026-09-03",
  "outcome": "OPEN",
  "outcome_date": null,
  "invalidation_fired": null,
  "themes": [
    "ai-datacenter-infrastructure",
    "ai-enterprise-software"
  ],
  "tags": [],
  "sources": [],
  "notes": [
    "Fiscal year ends November. Q3 FY2026 covers the quarter ending 2026-08-31; prior three Q3 prints landed 2025-09-25, 2024-09-26 and 2023-09-26.",
    "Thin-margin passthrough: Q2 FY2026 GAAP gross margin was 6.84%. Mix shifts move EPS far more than headline revenue growth does.",
    "Two top lines: revenue and non-GAAP gross billings differed by roughly $9.3B in Q2 FY2026, so growth comparisons need the matching line.",
    "3,022,195 carry a $191.10 strike vesting only on Amazon purchase-volume thresholds. Expires 2033-05-30.",
    "Apple was 11% of Q2 FY2026 revenue and 11% of supplier purchases; no other single customer exceeded 10% of revenue.",
    "Quarterly dividend $0.48 per share; the most recent ex-date was 2026-07-17, paid 2026-07-31."
  ],
  "body_markdown": "\n_Price data through the 2026-08-07 close. Fundamentals as reported 2026-06-25 for fiscal Q2 2026 (quarter ended 2026-05-31) unless dated otherwise._\n\n## SNX — TD SYNNEX Corporation\n\n## Current Thesis\n\nThe breakout did not hold. SNX closed $263.79 on 2026-08-04 — the first close above the $235.67–$255.70 band that had contained every session since 2026-07-08 — and by 2026-08-07 it closed $252.42, down 2.62% on the day, market capitalisation $20.18B (stockanalysis.com, 2026-08-07 16:00 EDT). That puts price back inside the July range and back under the 50-day average, which read $260.32 on 2026-08-05.\n\nThe move up was borrowed. TD SYNNEX published nothing commercially material between the 2026-07-15 Fortinet global-distribution selection and a 2026-08-05 Great Place to Work certification; the 2026-08-04 gap coincided with Arista Networks' Q2 (revenue $3.036B, +37.7% YoY, non-GAAP EPS $1.02 vs $0.89 consensus, FY2026 growth guided up to 27.7%). Sector beta lifted the name and then gave it back over the following two sessions.\n\nThe operating leg is unchanged and unconfirmed until the print. Hyve gross billings were $5.5B in Q2 FY2026, +117% YoY, with segment non-GAAP operating income $181M, +89%. Q3 guidance issued 2026-06-25 is revenue $18.2–19.0B and non-GAAP diluted EPS $4.25–4.75 on 79.4M diluted shares. Nothing company-specific resolves before the Q3 report, carried by stockanalysis.com as 2026-09-24 and still not announced by the company — roughly seven weeks out.\n\n## Bull Case\n\n- **Hyve gross billings $5.5B in Q2 FY2026, +117% YoY**, segment non-GAAP operating income $181M, +89% (2026-06-25). Programs exist with all five largest US hyperscalers; the third is ramping, the final two guided to late FY2026 or early FY2027.\n- **Q2 non-GAAP EPS was $4.85 against $4.14 consensus** (2026-06-25) — the beat that reset the sell-side, with targets moved to $374 from $341 (Morgan Stanley), $355 from $320 (BofA), $340 from $315 (RBC) and $325 from $202 (Barrington) in the days after the print.\n- **The end customers funded the next leg inside nine days.** Alphabet lifted FY2026 capex to $195–205B from $180–190B on 2026-07-22 (~60% to servers); Meta raised FY2026 to $130–145B and Microsoft guided FY2027 to $255–260B on 2026-07-29; Amazon lifted 2026 cash capex to about $220B on 2026-07-30 with AWS revenue $42.2B, +36.7% YoY.\n- **Capacity is installed ahead of the orders**: more than 1M sq ft added, lifting Hyve capacity more than 50% including liquid cooling, contributing from Q4 FY2026 and more materially in FY2027 (2026-06-25 call).\n- **No analyst has capitulated to the tape.** Consensus target $333.55 across 11 analysts, range $278–$374, 6 Strong Buy / 4 Buy / 1 Hold as of 2026-08-05; the last move was J.P. Morgan's $350 on 2026-07-22.\n- **Funding was arranged before it was needed**: a €650M European receivables securitization entered 2026-06-26 with BNP Paribas, Banco Santander and Crédit Agricole, amortising 2028-06-25 with extension to June 2031.\n\n## Bear Case\n\n- **Three sessions killed the breakout.** The 2026-08-04 close at $263.79 came on 799,216 shares against a 20-day average of 746,308 — the gap was priced without a new bid arriving — and $252.42 on 2026-08-07 sits back inside the July band.\n- **Insiders kept selling into the high.** Richard T. Hume filed a Form 4 for 5,000 shares sold 2026-08-05 at $262.21, one session after the breakout close, leaving 13,537 shares held directly.\n- **Growth is consuming cash.** Six-month operating cash flow was negative $1.16B; inventories $13.9B against $9.5B a year earlier; cash $1.09B against $2.44B; trailing-twelve-month free cash flow $0.4B against $1.2B a quarter earlier; net leverage 1.6x (Q2 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-07-02).\n- **Guidance embeds a GAAP step down.** Q3 GAAP diluted EPS is guided $3.40–3.90 against $4.15 delivered in Q2, on a 6.84% GAAP gross margin where mix moves earnings far more than headline revenue does.\n- **Registered supply exists.** The Amazon warrant covers up to 3,238,066 shares, 3,022,195 of them struck at $191.10, with a resale shelf effective since 2026-06-29.\n- **Nothing in the news flow is commercial.** The only company items since 2026-07-15 are employer-ranking releases (2026-07-20, 2026-08-05); third-party coverage has drifted to retrospective-return pieces (Benzinga, 2026-08-06, citing a $20.73B market cap).\n\n## Setup & Price Structure\n\nLife-cycle: **MATURING**. The re-rating event is dated and behind the tape — the 2026-06-25 beat and the target resets that followed it — and the last incremental sell-side move was 2026-07-22. Since then price has made a lower high (2026-08-04's $263.79 against the 2026-06-23 closing high of $290.14) and the 2026-08-07 close of $252.42 leaves the name 13.0% below that June close and below the 52-week intraday high of $296.47. The narrative still works at the fundamental level; the marginal buyer has thinned.\n\nStructure: the $235.67–$255.70 July band is the operative range, with $234 the floor of the entire advance off the 2026-06-25 print. The 50-day read $260.32 and the 200-day $192.96 on 2026-08-05 — price is under the former and far above the latter, so the intermediate trend is broken while the primary one is not.\n\nCrowding and positioning observables, stated as observables: short interest 1.73M shares, 2.34% of float (2026-08-05) — no squeeze fuel; 41,273 shares of disclosed insider selling since 2026-06-15 against zero open-market buys, the most recent at $262.21; a resale shelf live since 2026-06-29 over up to 3,238,066 warrant shares struck at $191.10; consensus target $333.55 against a $252.42 close, an unusually wide gap that has not been narrowed by a single cut; and no earnings date inside 30 days, so the nearest dated risk is a supplier's print rather than the company's own.\n\nValuation at the 2026-08-07 close: $20.18B market capitalisation. As of 2026-08-05 the name carried a 13.40x forward and 18.90x trailing P/E, 0.30x sales, 11.18x EV/EBITDA and a 1.43 beta.\n\n## Catalyst Calendar (next 30 days)\n\n- **2026-08-31** — fiscal Q3 2026 quarter ends. Nothing is disclosed on the date; it closes the period that must land inside the $18.2–19.0B revenue and $4.25–4.75 non-GAAP EPS guide issued 2026-06-25.\n- **~2026-09-01 to 2026-09-08 (est.)** — Hewlett Packard Enterprise fiscal Q3 2026. Sources split between a 2026-09-01 listing and an unconfirmed 09-02/09-08 window. First HPE print since its 2026-05-14 decision to consolidate global distribution onto Ingram Micro and TD SYNNEX.\n- **2026-09-03** — Dell Technologies fiscal Q2 2027 results, 3:30 PM CDT, carried on Dell's investor events page. Dell posted record Q1 FY2027 revenue of $43.8B on 2026-05-28 and guided the following quarter to $44–45B with ISG growing roughly 75%.\n- Just outside the window: **~2026-09-24 (est.)** — TD SYNNEX Q3 FY2026 results, carried by stockanalysis.com, unannounced by the company. Prior three Q3 prints landed 2025-09-25, 2024-09-26 and 2023-09-26; in 2025 the company issued a separate date-announcement release ahead of the print, so that release is itself a September marker.\n\n## What Would Change Our Mind\n\nThe structure that matters is the base the July range built, and it has one floor. A weekly close below $234 retraces the whole advance off the 2026-06-25 print and removes the $235.67 shelf that has held since 2026-07-08; at that point the June re-rating has been fully given back and the Hyve leg is being priced as a story rather than a delivery.\n\nSecond, the supplier read: Dell guiding ISG materially under the ~75% growth flagged on 2026-05-28, at its 2026-09-03 print, would be the first dated evidence that hyperscaler order flow is decelerating rather than compounding at the rate Hyve's +117% Q2 billings imply.\n\nThird, the print itself. Q3 FY2026 revenue below the $18.2B guide floor, Hyve billings growth decelerating below triple digits, or nine-month operating cash flow still negative after the $1.16B six-month drain would each break a separate pillar. Conversely, a Q3 that holds the guide with cash flow turning positive re-opens the case toward the 2026-06-23 close of $290.14 and the $296.47 52-week high.\n\nAnd the shape of the flow: further Form 4 sales above the 2026-08-05 price of $262.21, or the first target cut inside the 11-analyst panel, would mark the sell-side and the insiders converging on the tape rather than on the guide.\n\n## Correlation Notes\n\n- The name trades as a derivative of AI-datacenter capex, and the 2026-08-04 session showed the mechanism: it gapped on Arista's Q2 with no company news of its own. Beta 1.43 (2026-08-05).\n- Dell (2026-09-03) and HPE (~2026-09-01, est.) are the two nearest supplier-side reads; HPE's is the first since it consolidated global distribution onto Ingram Micro and TD SYNNEX on 2026-05-14. Ingram Micro is the other listed broadline comparator and prints on the same industry data.\n- Hyperscaler capex guidance is the upstream driver — Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon all raised between 2026-07-22 and 2026-07-30 — and any Q3 CY2026 capex revision lands directly on the Hyve line.\n- The distribution half is not an AI asset. Apple was 11% of Q2 FY2026 revenue and 11% of supplier purchases, tying a chunk of the top line to consumer and commercial device refresh cycles.\n- Rates and credit matter more here than at a typical hardware name: 1.6x net leverage, $13.9B inventories and receivables securitizations (including the €650M European facility entered 2026-06-26) mean funding cost feeds the P&L on a 6.84% GAAP gross margin.",
  "first_seen": "2026-04-21",
  "last_analyzed": "2026-08-09T09:54:13+00:00",
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