Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Jaden Schafer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
118 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

Goldman Sachs is one of them.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

And they've highlighted that earnings leverage tied to those specific components, in part,

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

you know, on expectations of a NAND recovery.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

You know, this is super critical.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

And the market obviously has responded.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

Toto shares are up about 40% year to date.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

I think this is a lot of this is rising because of the analyst upgrades and, of course, the activist pressure.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

Investors, I think, are not just trying to chase, you know, kind of like a novelty AI narrative, which is attached to a toilet brand.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

I think this is probably what a lot of people would accuse them of or would say, like, look, you guys are just trying to like

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

you found one little in in the ai industry and because it's booming you're a toilet company you're trying to just kind of bump your stock up it reminds me of you know during a lot of the crypto days there's like a lemonade company that just changed its name to blockchain lemon or something like that so that it could uh you know then there's i don't i have no idea why they just literally just put the name blockchain in their company name and all of a sudden their stock bumped up it was about to get delisted for lack of like trading shares and stuff and

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

That saved them for a couple months.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

And then I think eventually they got pulled off of the stock market for lack of volume or something like that.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

But anyways, it doesn't feel like a desperate ploy like that.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

I mean, this is 40% of their operating revenue.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

And this is a, you know, they have a massive opportunity here.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

So I think there's legitimately an opportunity.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

Toto may turn into an AI...

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

ceramics supplier for these wafers and all of that.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

I think there's some people that are trying to be cautious with this, specifically because when Pallister, the kind of activist in all of this, he's putting a pitch in for the company and he was saying like, look, you guys have a, this is like his quote was that there was a durable five-year technological moat.

AI in Business
Japanese Toilet Maker Toto's HUGE AI Windfall

Some are saying this isn't quite