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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

What’s Up With Super Micro?

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When a stock goes parabolic, there’s more to the story than business performance. Mary Long caught up with Tim Beyers and Kirsten Guerra, advisors on The Motley Fool’s Interconnected Opportunities investing service to discuss: - Super Micro’s real business. - The original bull thesis for the data center service company. - Super Micro’s relationship with Nvidia. - What’s behind the stock’s recent performance. Stocks discussed: SMCI, NVDA, DELL, HPQ Host: Mary Long Guests: Tim Beyers, Kirsten Guerra Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Tim Sparks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm paraphrasing here but his the late-grade Charlie Munger would often say that you know your

0:08.0

results are tied almost inexorably's your ability to control your emotions

0:15.0

and situations where you need to,

0:17.0

and if that's not you,

0:20.0

this is not a party you want to go to. I'm Mary Long and that's Tim Byers,

0:28.0

an advisor on the Motley Fool's Interconnected Opportunities Investing Service.

0:32.0

Tim and his colleague Kirsten Guerra have been

0:34.5

following the super micro story for a while now and you may have seen the

0:38.0

Data Center Services stock recently went ballistic. I caught up with Tim

0:41.8

and Kirsten to find out what this business

0:44.0

actually does, the machinations behind the stock's performance, and what

0:48.1

investors should do when they see a stock break the laws of gravity.

1:01.0

So Tim, I want to start with you because talking tech can get really technical really quickly. And before we talk about Super Micro the company it's maybe important to get a

1:05.8

picture of the landscape this company operates within the data center landscape and so before

1:10.5

we start talking about the ins and outs of the business,

1:13.4

can you give us an idea of the different types of data centers that exist and how

1:18.0

why it's important to understand that landscape before talking about

1:21.8

Super Micro? Yeah, there's a lot of different ways to

1:24.7

engage with the data center. Let's use a building analogy. So the data centers that

1:32.4

most people are familiar with are the ones that are owned by the big cloud providers and you can think of the big cloud providers so that's AWS

1:41.0

GCP Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and when you are using, and we are when you are accessing those

1:48.0

data centers, those are wholly owned by those big tech companies and they rent space inside of their data centers.

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