Positive corporate culture helps Team retain employees. Acquisitions position Team to grow in a fragmented market, such as the recent acquisition of Furmanite. Quest Integrity Group boosts Team's high-tech presence in the market through proprietary technology. Diversification across industries and geographies helps protect Team against risks like fluctuations in oil prices. The analyst gives Team a rating of Market Outperform with a 12-month target price of $53.
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TISI Burkenroad Report
1. November 09, 2015
TEAM INCORPORATED
TISI/NYSE
Continuing Coverage:
Team’s Full Court Press
Investment Rating: Market Outperform
PRICE: $ 38.14 S&P 500: 2,078.60 DJIA: 17,730.48 RUSSELL 2000: 1,184.45
Positive Company corporate culture helps retain employees
Acquisitions position Team to grow in a fragmented market
Quest Integrity Group boosts Team’s high tech presence in the
market
Diversification helps protect Team against macroeconomic events and
fluctuations in oil prices
Team acquires Furmanite Co. in all stock transaction
Our 12‐month target price is $53.00
Valuation 2015 A 2016 E 2017 E
EPS $ 1.85 $ 1.83 $ 4.77
P/E 20.6x 20.8x 8.0x
CFPS $ 3.28 $ 3.41 $ 6.20
P/CFPS 11.6x 11.2x 6.1x
Market Capitalization Stock Data
Equity Market Cap (MM): $ 826,799 52‐Week Range: $30.81 ‐ $47.55
Enterprise Value (MM): $ 827,118 12‐Month Stock Performance: ‐11.67%
Shares Outstanding (MM): 21,678 Dividend Yield: Nil
Estimated Float (MM): 20.50 Book Value Per Share: $ 0.02
3‐Mo. Avg. Daily Volume: 148,240 Beta: 0.93
Company Quick View:
Who you going to call when the issue at hand is the maintenance and repair of industrial
facilities? It’s Team, Inc. Team Inc., headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, is one of the
largest providers of specialized industrial services in the construction and maintenance
of pressurized systems. Essentially, the Company provides “plumbing” services to heavy
industry customers. Team Inc. employs over 4,800 individuals in more than 125
locations worldwide, operating in three major segments: inspection and heat treating
services (IHT), mechanical services (MS), and Quest Integrity Group—a high tech pipe
inspection service. The Company provides a wide range of services including non‐
destructive testing (NDT), valve repair, hot tapping, and leak repair to a large variety of
industries such as petrochemical, refining, and power generation.
Company Website: www.teamindustrialservices.com
Analysts: Investment Research Manager:
Michael Swanson Katie Morgan
Sabrina Somers
Haley Fradkin
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Table 1: Historical Burkenroad Ratings and Prices
Report Date Stock Price* Rating
12‐Month Target
Price
11/14/2014 $42.93 Market Underperform $42.00
10/29/2013 $38.29 Market Perform $39.00
11/19/2012 $32.31 Market Perform $44.00
11/23/11 $24.51 Market Outperform $31.00
10/22/10 $18.51 Market Perform $21.31
11/10/09 $16.35 Market Perform $18.51
11/18/08 $22.40 Market Outperform $33.21
12/05/07 $30.28 Market Outperform $42.20
10/30/06 $15.40 Market Outperform $30.80
01/14/05 $7.86 Market Perform $15.72
04/13/04 $6.99 Market Outperform $13.98
11/22/02 $3.75 Buy $7.50
*Price at time of report date
INVESTMENT THESIS
We established a target price of $53.00 and market rating of Market Outperform for Team Inc.
We believe that Team is positioned to have future revenue growth through both organic growth
and strategic acquisitions. Furthermore, the development of the Quest Integrity Group
technology will differentiate Team Inc. in the industrial services industry. These advances,
combined with a positive and effective Company culture, help the Company to retain employees
and to produce quality work. These competitive advantages support our positive outlook on
future earnings for Team Inc.
Positive corporate culture helps retain employees
Team operates in a highly fragmented industry with many companies offering similar types of
services. The suppliers for the Company’s operations are the skilled laborers. These laborers are in
high demand in the industrial services industry and will often switch companies for a higher pay
grade. Team looks to retain its valuable employees by creating a positive company culture,
providing competitive pay, and maintaining notably safe working conditions. One measure the
Company uses to promote this culture is the low reported accident rate. In fact, the safety of
workers in the field is one of Team’s core values. This emphasis on safety helps the Company to
retain employees and create a safe positive company culture.
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Table 5: Institutional Holders of Team Inc. Stock
Institution
Shares
Held
Percent
Ownership
Percent
Change From
2014‐2015
Value
(In USD)
Government Pension Fund of
Norway
4,659,268 22.92% 115.45% 155,153,624.40
EdgePoint Investment Group, Inc. 1,607,194 7.73% 5.96% 53,519,560.20
Vanguard Group, Inc. 1,296,182 6.23% 2.83% 43,162,860.60
Ariel Investments, LLC 1,135,129 5.46% (1.11%) 37,799,795.70
EdgePoint Investment
Management Inc.
986,236 4.77% 0% 32,841,658.80
Neuberger Berman LLC 941,768 4.53% (0.86%) 31,360,874.40
Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC 896,015 4.31% 27.94% 29,837,299.50
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. 759,056 3.65% 1.17% 25,276,564.80
Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc. 751,875 3.62% 4.71% 25,037,437.50
Mackenzie Investments 681,540 3.28% 1.75% 22,695,282.00
Source: Morningstar October 2, 2015
Team’s insider owners control 3.95% of the stock. The change from 2014 is a 300.7% increase with
most of that change attributed to Jeffrey Ott’s recent 812.25% increase in shares. The percent
change resulting from these trades represents a slight increase of 0.68% in insider ownership (see
Table 6).
Table 6: Insider Ownership of Team Inc. Stock
Name Position
Shares
Held
% Shares
Outstanding
Market Value
(In USD)
Jeffrey Ott
President, Quest Integrity
Group
300,030 1.43% 10,609,060
Louis Waters Lead Independent Director 179,101 0.86% 6,333,011
Sidney Williams Independent Director 112,423 0.54% 3,975,277
Ted Owen CEO, President and Director 49,640 0.24% 1,755,270
Emmett Lescroart Independent Director 47,888 0.23% 1,693,319
Vincent Foster Independent Director 43,793 0.21% 1,548,520
Philip Hawk
Executive Chairman of the
Board
30,155 0.14% 1,066,280
Peter Wallace
President, Mechanical
Services
20,973 0.1% 741,605
Arthur Victorson
President, Inspection and
Heat Treating
20,420 0.1% 722,051
Andre Bouchard
Executive VP,
Administration, Chief Legal
Officer, and Secretary
17,607 0.08% 622,583
Source: Morningstar October 7, 2015
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ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT
ALTMAN Z‐SCORE
Edward Altman, a finance professor at New York University, created the Altman Z‐Score in
1967. The score tests the firm for bankruptcy risk. The measure aims to identify the firm’s
credit‐riskiness through the analysis of five ratios— working capital/total assets, retained
earnings/total assets, EBIT/total assets, market capitalization/book value of total liabilities,
and sales/total assets. These ratios are then weighted using Altman’s multipliers of 1.2, 1.4,
3.3, 0.6, and 1.0, respectively. Summing all these weighted ratios derives the final Altman Z‐
Score of a firm. A score of 1.8 or under means the firm is in high risk of default. A score of 3 or
above suggests the firm’s credit is safe and the firm is unlikely to enter bankruptcy. Altman
describes a score between 1.8 and 2.99 as the “grey area,” and says these firms show an
uncertain probability of bankruptcy.
Team Inc. has routinely posted a high and healthy Z‐Score. The Company’s Z‐Score for 2015 is
5.52—well above the requisite score of 3 for investors to consider a firm safe from
bankruptcy. However, the Z‐Score shows a slight dip from 2014 after four years of increasing
Z‐Scores (see Table 8). The dip does not indicate that the firm is approaching the uncertain
range, or bankruptcy. An unfavorable macroeconomic environment is one explanation for the
dip. The dip comes from a decrease in the market capitalization to BV of total equity ratio. So
alternatively, the slight decrease in the Z‐score may mean that the market is slightly less
confident in the Company’s financial plan. A decrease in confidence likely comes from the
recent acquisition of Qualspec, the announcement of the acquisition of Furmanite, and
speculation regarding future acquisitions.
Table 8: Altman Z‐Scores 2011‐2015
Source: Bloomberg November 9, 2015
Ratio 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Multiplier
Working Capital to Total Assets 0.367 0.389 0.378 0.358 0.377 1.2
Retained Earnings to Total Assets 0.355 0.377 0.401 0.417 0.462 1.4
EBIT to Total Assets 0.119 0.145 0.121 0.107 0.137 3.3
Market Cap to BV of Total Liabilities 2.766 3.338 4.401 5.113 4.305 0.6
Sales to Total Assets 1.429 2.766 1.552 1.546 1.607 1.0
Altman Z‐Score 4.055 4.731 5.358 5.751 5.518
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WWBD?
What Would Ben (Graham) Do?
The British‐American “father of value investing,” Ben Graham, was raised in an environment
lacking financial security. After graduating from Columbia University, Graham went to Wall
Street where he developed many successful investment strategies to combat this insecurity.
His fundamental belief was crafted into the “margin of safety” formula, the difference
between an investment price and intrinsic value of a stock. According to Graham, if an
individual stock surpasses at least four of the eight hurdles, Mr. Graham would consider
investing. His intention was to discover undervalued stocks that are heading towards
sustained future growth. The first four hurdles measure a stock’s potential reward and the
second four hurdles assess the risk of investing in a particular stock.
On November 9, 2015, Ben Graham would consider purchasing Team Inc. stock because it
sufficiently passes four of the eight hurdles: earnings to price yield of 2X the yield on the Ten‐
Year Treasury, a price to earnings ratio down to one‐half of the stock’s highest in five years,
current ratio of 2 or more, and an earnings growth of greater than or equal to 7% over the
past two years. However, the fluctuating stock price is currently more than 1.5 times its book
value. Even at the current lower than average price, Ben Graham would not believe this
option was discounted enough to be worth an investment. Additionally, since Team does not
issue dividends, the Company does not pass Graham’s dividend hurdle. Currently, Team’s
interest‐bearing debt is $359.1 million and its book value is $329.7 million, which places
Team 10% above the maximum level Graham considers acceptable. When seeking out
investments with the potential for future growth, Ben Graham would be hesitant to invest in
a company with this level of debt. In addition, due to the recent company acquisitions and
the volatile economy, the rate of earnings has not increased at a consistent level, which Ben
Graham would consider a significant risk. All financials considered, Mr. Graham would
potentially consider investing in Team Inc.
Figure 9: Ben Graham’s Investment Dial
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Earnings per share (ttm) 9.41$ Price: 38.14$
Earnings to Price Yield 24.68%
10 Year Treasury (2X) 4.72%
P/E ratio as of 5/31/11 17.4
P/E ratio as of 5/31/12 16.8
P/E ratio as of 5/31/13 23.6
P/E ratio as of 5/31/14 29.9
P/E ratio as of 5/31/15 21.5
Current P/E Ratio 4.1
Dividends per share (ttm) ‐$ Price: 38.14$
Dividend Yield Nil
1/2 Yield on 10 Year Treasury 1.18%
Stock Price 38.14$
Book Value per share as of 8/31/15 15.77$
150% of book Value per share as of 8/31/15 23.65$
Interest‐bearing debt as of 8/31/15 359,100$
Book value as of 8/31/15 329,699$
Current assets as of 8/31/15 301,256$
Current liabilities as of 8/31/15 84,909$
Current ratio as of 8/31/15 3.5
EPS for year ended 5/31/15 1.85$
EPS for year ended 5/31/14 1.40$
EPS for year ended 5/31/13 1.53$
EPS for year ended 5/31/12 1.59$
EPS for year ended 5/31/11 1.32$
EPS for year ended 5/31/15 1.85$ 32%
EPS for year ended 5/31/14 1.40$ ‐8%
EPS for year ended 5/31/13 1.53$ ‐4%
EPS for year ended 5/31/12 1.59$ 20%
EPS for year ended 5/31/11 1.32$
Stock price data as of November 9, 2015
TEAM INC. (TISI)
Ben Graham Analysis
Hurdle # 1: An Earnings to Price Yield of 2X the Yield on 10 Year Treasury
Yes
Hurdle # 2: A P/E Ratio Down to 1/2 of the Stocks Highest in 5 Yrs
Yes
Hurdle # 8: Stability in Growth of Earnings
No
Hurdle # 5: Total Debt less than Book Value
No
Hurdle # 6: Current Ratio of Two or More
Yes
Hurdle # 7: Earnings Growth of 7% or Higher over past 5 years
Yes
Hurdle # 3: A Dividend Yield of 1/2 the Yield on 10 Year Treasury
No
Hurdle # 4: A Stock Price less than 1.5 BV
No