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- Northland analyst Gus Richard reiterated his Outperform rating and a $38 price target on Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR). The price target implies an upside of 175%.
- The re-rating follows Luminar's partnership with Daimler AG (OTC:DDAIF) Mercedes-Benz to accelerate the development of future automated driving technologies for passenger cars.
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- Northland hailed the deal as "a major commercial win for Luminar."
- Given reference designs at NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), a partnership with Intel Corp's (NASDAQ:INTC) Mobileye, the first production cars with Lidar in 2022 and now Mercedes' passenger car win, it is "difficult to dispute" that Luminar is "the Lidar Leader," argues Richard.
- Price Target: LAZR shares traded lower by 7.93% at $13.81 on the last check Friday.