Top 10 Stocks to Buy According to Whale Rock Capital Management

8. Viavi Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAV)

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Viavi Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAV) is one of the top stocks to buy according to Whale Rock Capital Management. On July 1, Susquehanna analyst Mehdi Hosseini raised his price target on Viavi Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAV) to $66 from $60, while maintaining his Positive rating on the stock.

The reason for the call, according to Hosseini, was that Susquehanna was updating its estimates to reflect a higher Field Instrument revenue contribution. Viavi’s Field Instrument business is a product line within its Network and Service Enablement segment that supplies handheld and portable testing tools used by technicians to install, troubleshoot, and maintain fiber and network equipment in the field. Hosseini’s team lifted its revenue estimates for this business because they now expect a stronger ramp in data center interconnect, or DCI, deployments at two of Viavi’s major optical networking customers; that is Nokia and Ciena.

DCI refers to the high-capacity optical links that connect data centers to each other. The analysts noted that demand for this technology has been surging as hyperscale cloud providers race to expand AI computing capacity. They added that Nokia and Ciena are both racing to supply next-generation coherent optical equipment for these DCI links, and that Nokia recently unveiled a new suite of pluggable optical transceivers specifically built for DCI.

As these vendors ramp production and deployment of their new DCI and scale-across optical gear, they generate more business for Viavi, the analysts noted.

Viavi Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAV) is a network test, monitoring, and assurance company. It provides testing, monitoring, assurance, and security solutions for telecommunications, cloud, enterprise, military, aerospace, and critical infrastructure networks across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.