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  "ticker": "SNX",
  "name": "TD SYNNEX Corporation",
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  "status": "HELD",
  "current_conviction": "LOW",
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  "archetype": {
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  "current_thesis": "Second-order AI re-rating still unconfirmed by company data, and the tape has now taken it back: the 2026-08-24 close of $243.65 leaves a three-month price change of +1.7% with RSI(14) at 27.3. The 11-analyst panel has not revised since 2026-07-22, across five external events. NVDA on 2026-08-26 re-prices the complex a month before TD SYNNEX discloses anything.",
  "invalidation_trigger": "A weekly close below $234 forfeits the $235.67 shelf unbroken since 2026-07-08 and completes the round-trip of the advance off the 2026-06-25 print. Secondary: NVDA 2026-08-26, HPE 2026-09-02 and Dell 2026-09-03 all passing with no close back above $255.70.",
  "catalyst_date": "2026-08-26",
  "outcome": "OPEN",
  "outcome_date": null,
  "invalidation_fired": null,
  "themes": [
    "ai-datacenter-infrastructure",
    "ai-enterprise-software"
  ],
  "tags": [],
  "sources": [],
  "notes": [
    "Fiscal year ends in November. Q3 FY2026 covers the quarter ending 2026-08-31; the prior Q3 prints landed 2025-09-25, 2024-09-26, 2023-09-26 and 2022-09-27.",
    "Thin-margin passthrough: Q2 FY2026 GAAP gross margin was 6.84%, so 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 through the 2026-08-24 close of $243.65 on the split- and dividend-adjusted daily series. Company financials 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 leg being bought is unchanged: a distributor running a 6.84% GAAP gross margin re-rated as a hyperscaler-adjacent AI-build supplier through Hyve Solutions, which printed $5.5B of gross billings, +117% YoY, and $181M of segment non-GAAP operating income, +89%, in Q2 FY2026. Consolidated revenue was $19.6B, +31% YoY; non-GAAP EPS $4.85 against $4.14 consensus. Forward P/E read 13.40 and EV/EBITDA 11.18 on 2026-08-05.\n\nWhat advanced since the prior note is entirely in the tape and entirely in the direction of doubt. The 2026-08-24 session took the close to $243.65, a decline of about 2.6% from $250.14 on 2026-08-21, and dropped RSI(14) on the adjusted series to 27.3 — its first sub-30 reading in this leg, against 46.2 at the 2026-08-21 close and 66.6 into the 2026-08-14 close of $258.74. The three-month price change is +1.7%: the advance that followed the 2026-06-25 print has been fully returned, and the name now sits 15.9% under its $289.57 52-week high.\n\nThe 2026-08-24 decline had no company source. Nvidia fell 2.9% for a seventh consecutive down session — its longest losing run since 2022 — Micron dropped roughly 6%, and the Nasdaq Composite closed 0.76% lower at 25,980 while the Dow gained 0.26% to 53,417. With beta at 1.43 and no TD SYNNEX disclosure on the tape, the name traded as AI-hardware exposure into the 2026-08-26 Nvidia print rather than on anything it reported.\n\nA 2026-08-25 re-check of the sell-side panel found it still frozen: 11 analysts, $333.55 mean, $278–$374 range, most recent revision J.P. Morgan to $350 from $325 on 2026-07-22, before that Barclays to $278 from $237 on 2026-07-02 and a 2026-06-26 cluster (RBC $315→$340, UBS $310→$352, Barrington $202→$325). No published revision has followed Ingram Micro's 2026-07-30 quarter, CDW's 2026-08-05 quarter, Supermicro's 2026-08-11 print, or the 2026-08-19 Nevada capacity release. Stockanalysis.com's summary put the mean 36.90% above the prevailing price at that check — an anchor built entirely from marks struck in June and July.\n\n**The narrative is maturing, late stage.** Dating it: the $235.67 shelf has held every session since 2026-07-08 and the 200-day average read $192.96 on 2026-08-05, so nothing structural has broken. Against that, two failed reclaims of the $255.70 ceiling (close $263.79 on 2026-08-04, back inside by 2026-08-07; close $258.74 on 2026-08-14, back inside by 2026-08-19), a corporate capacity headline on 2026-08-19 that bought three consecutive lower closes, a panel unrevised for over a month across five external events, and two retrospective-compounding pieces inside 15 days (Benzinga 2026-08-06 at a $20.73B market cap, Benzinga 2026-08-21 at $20.29B and 21.68% annualised over 15 years). The prior note pre-registered two conditions for a flip to saturated — a first target cut from the 11-analyst panel, or a Q3 print inside the $18.2–19.0B guide that still cannot hold $255.70. Neither has occurred, and the second cannot be tested before the print.\n\n## Bull Case\n\n- Hyve gross billings $5.5B, +117% YoY, with segment non-GAAP operating income $181M, +89%, in Q2 FY2026 — the profit line kept pace with volume (results release, 2026-06-25).\n- Q2 FY2026 net income $334.1M, +82% YoY; non-GAAP EPS $4.85 versus $4.14 consensus (2026-06-25).\n- Q3 FY2026 guided to $18.2–19.0B revenue, $273–313M net income and $4.25–4.75 non-GAAP EPS, framed on the call as roughly $18.6B ± $400M and about $4.50 ± $0.25 (2026-06-25).\n- The order pool behind Hyve is still growing on third-party evidence: Supermicro's Q4 FY2026 on 2026-08-11 posted $11.12B revenue, +93% YoY, gross margin 17.5% versus 9.5% a year earlier, more than $60B of new orders in the quarter, and FY2027 revenue guided $65–72B.\n- Physical capacity is being committed, not just described: Nevada's Governor's Office of Economic Development approved abatements on 2026-08-07 covering a 624,000 sq ft Reno campus (974 jobs at an average $32.10/hour, $31.4M of capital equipment, targeted fully operational Q4 2026) and a North Las Vegas site (240 jobs at $38.55/hour, $8.7M of equipment).\n- Valuation carried a 13.40 forward P/E and 11.18 EV/EBITDA on 2026-08-05, well below the AI-hardware comparables whose demand it is levered to.\n\n## Bear Case\n\n- A three-month price change of +1.7% through 2026-08-24 means the tape has paid nothing for a quarter that grew revenue 31% and Hyve billings 117%. Whatever the print proved, the market has already re-taken it.\n- Two clean rejections of $255.70 — 2026-08-04 and 2026-08-14 — followed by the 2026-08-19 Nevada release drawing three lower closes ($251.78, $250.77, $250.14). A supply-side headline that produces selling is information about who is left to buy.\n- The corporate release named 624,000 square feet and roughly 3,000 jobs; the state paperwork approved 2026-08-07 commits $3.67M and $1.03M of abatements against 974 and 240 direct jobs. Abatement filings measure committed jobs and abated equipment over a defined window, not a project budget — and they remain the only dollar figures attached to the buildout.\n- Insider flow runs one way. A 2026-08-25 check found no Form 4 disclosed after 2026-08-17.\n- Cash conversion is the open question the P&L does not answer: six-month operating cash outflow of $1.16B against $1.09B of cash at 2026-05-31.\n- Apple was 11% of Q2 FY2026 revenue and 11% of supplier purchases, tying a large slice of the distribution half to device refresh while the AI leg carries the narrative.\n\n## Setup & Price Structure\n\n- Reference close 2026-08-24: $243.65, 15.9% below the $289.57 52-week high on the adjusted series.\n- RSI(14) 27.3 at that close, from 46.2 on 2026-08-21 and 66.6 on 2026-08-14 — a fast unwind from overbought to oversold inside seven sessions, with no company disclosure in the window.\n- The $235.67 floor has held every session since 2026-07-08 and sits roughly 3.3% under the current close. The $255.70 shelf is the reclaim level; it has been closed above twice since 2026-08-04 and given back both times.\n- The 200-day average read $192.96 on 2026-08-05, far below the tape — the medium-term trend has not been threatened by this drawdown.\n- Crowding observables, stated without a verdict: the sell-side panel has not moved since 2026-07-22 while the stock fell about 5.8% from the 2026-08-14 close; two \"$1,000 invested N years ago\" retrospectives ran within 15 days (2026-08-06, 2026-08-21); insider disposals continue with no offsetting open-market buys; and the 2026-08-24 decline tracked the AI-hardware complex (Nvidia -2.9%, Micron ~-6%) rather than any SNX-specific news.\n- No company-specific print is scheduled inside 30 days. Every dated resolution between now and roughly 2026-09-24 belongs to somebody else's income statement.\n\n## Catalyst Calendar (next 30 days)\n\n- **2026-08-26** — NVIDIA fiscal Q2 2027 results, released approximately 1:20 p.m. PT with the call at 2:00 p.m. PT, covering the quarter ended 2026-07-26. The nearest dated read on whether AI-infrastructure order flow is still expanding.\n- **2026-08-31** — TD SYNNEX fiscal Q3 2026 quarter ends. Nothing is disclosed on the date, but it closes the first period measured against the 2026-06-25 guide.\n- **2026-09-02** — Hewlett Packard Enterprise fiscal Q3 2026 results (confirmed). First HPE print since its 2026-05-14 decision to consolidate global distribution onto Ingram Micro and TD SYNNEX; HPE guided Q3 revenue $11.5–12.1B and non-GAAP EPS $0.88–0.93 on 2026-06-01.\n- **2026-09-03** — Dell Technologies fiscal Q2 2027 results, before the open (confirmed). 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- **~2026-09-10 (est.)** — TD SYNNEX press release fixing the Q3 FY2026 report date. No such release existed at a 2026-08-25 check; the FY2025 analogue announced a 2025-09-25 print, FY2024 a 2024-09-26 print, FY2023 a 2023-09-26 print.\n- **~2026-09-24 (est.)** — TD SYNNEX Q3 FY2026 results, unannounced by the company and carried by data providers on that date. The only company-specific resolution: whether the guide holds, whether Hyve billings sustain triple-digit growth, whether operating cash flow turns after the $1.16B six-month drain, and whether any Nevada capex figure is finally disclosed.\n\n## What Would Change Our Mind\n\nThe structure is what breaks first. The $235.67 floor has been the entire technical argument since 2026-07-08, and the 2026-08-24 close of $243.65 leaves it roughly 3.3% away with RSI(14) at 27.3 and no company release scheduled for a month. A weekly close below $234 forfeits that shelf and completes the round-trip of the advance off the 2026-06-25 print; from there the next reference is the 200-day average, which read $192.96 on 2026-08-05.\n\nSecondary conditions, each independently observable: NVDA on 2026-08-26, HPE on 2026-09-02 and Dell on 2026-09-03 all passing with no close back above $255.70, after failed reclaims on 2026-08-04 and 2026-08-14; or the first target cut from the 11-analyst panel — any mark below the $278 low, or a rating downgrade — which would flip the frame to saturated by removing the last unbroken support for the $333.55 mean.\n\nWhat would push the other way, stated with equal specificity: Nvidia guiding the October quarter above the roughly $91.0B carried for the quarter just ended and Dell reiterating ISG growth near 75% on 2026-09-03, followed by a close above $255.70 that holds for a full week; or a Q3 print at or above the $19.0B top of guide with Hyve billings still compounding above +100% and operating cash flow turning positive.\n\n## Correlation Notes\n\n- Beta of 1.43 means the complex sets the price when the company is silent, and it is silent until roughly 2026-09-24. The 2026-08-24 session is the demonstration: SNX -2.6% with Nvidia -2.9%, Micron ~-6%, Nasdaq Composite -0.76% at 25,980 and the Dow up 0.26% at 53,417 — a rotation out of AI hardware, not a repricing of TD SYNNEX.\n- Hyve is the AI-server integration leg and reads against Supermicro (Q4 FY2026 on 2026-08-11), Dell ISG (2026-09-03) and Nvidia's data-center line (2026-08-26). Divergence between those three and Hyve's +117% Q2 billings growth is the cleanest fundamental check available before the print.\n- The distribution half reads against Ingram Micro, which guided its September quarter sequentially lower to $13.55–13.95B, and against CDW's 2026-08-05 quarter. HPE on 2026-09-02 is the first print since it consolidated global distribution onto Ingram and TD SYNNEX on 2026-05-14.\n- Apple at 11% of Q2 FY2026 revenue links a material share of the non-AI business to consumer and commercial device refresh cycles, which move on a different clock from hyperscaler capex.",
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  "last_analyzed": "2026-08-25T04:12:30+00:00",
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