The document summarizes the investment strategies and approach of Geoinvesting.com, which focuses on identifying undervalued microcap stocks. Some of their main strategies include buying stocks that are underreacting to good news ("Buy on Pullback"), targeting companies that may be acquisition candidates, and investing in turnaround situations. They provide several case studies of past investments that achieved significant returns, such as NV5 Global, GTT Communications, Zynex, and Vocus, to illustrate how they successfully implemented these strategies.
Michal A. Kaszas ( HardWood Capital & ISTI Valuation and Strategy specialist) course Advanced Corporate Finance & Strategic Investments. Learn how to conduct strategic analysis and gain competitive advantage via Real Option valuation and application
This document provides an overview of how to build an M&A strategy, outlining a 6-step process: 1) determine business plan drivers, 2) acquisition financing constraints, 3) develop an acquisition candidate list, 4) build preliminary valuation models, 5) rate and rank acquisition candidates, and 6) review and approve the strategy with key stakeholders. The goal is to translate a company's strategic business plan into a prioritized list of target acquisitions by evaluating how deals fit financing constraints and impact business objectives. Preliminary models estimate acquisition costs and returns to facilitate strategy development and approval.
Measure What Matters - New Perspectives on Portfolio SelectionUMT
The document discusses new frameworks for IT portfolio selection that consider both financial and strategic metrics. It summarizes that traditional portfolio selection focused solely on financial metrics, but recent research shows this led to underinvestment in strategic areas. The new framework evaluates investments from four perspectives: demand, supply, governance, and alternatives. This allows executives to consider financial returns, strategic alignment, risk exposure, architectural fit, options, costs, deadlines, and skills. Successful companies now use multiple financial and strategic metrics to optimize resource allocation and maximize investment value and benefits.
Michal A. Kaszas ( HardWood Capital & ISTI Valuation and Strategy specialist) course Advanced Corporate Finance & Strategic Investments. Learn how to conduct strategic M&A Valuation.
This document provides an overview of valuation techniques and strategic management concepts for an advanced corporate finance course. It begins with introductions and reviews key concepts like prisoners' dilemmas and valuation approaches. The main sections cover discounted cash flow valuation, including calculating free cash flows, determining weighted average cost of capital, and estimating terminal value. Other topics include strategic management tools like Porter's five forces, game theory applications, and using multiples. Worked examples are provided to demonstrate the step-by-step process of valuation. The goal is to equip students with the skills to determine a company's enterprise value through financial statement analysis and forecasting.
HireLabs Perspective: Increasing Vc Returns In Talent Assessment FirmsHireLabs Inc.
The VCs must ask themselves if they have CEOs who are capable of driving companies
as the recession bottoms.
Looking at the current slowdown in non-farm employment and the subsequent rebound strategies, HireLabs can forecast a recovery in the international labor market - lead by the US - sometime around Feb 2010 (Q1 2010).
Very few CEOs of venture-backed companies have experience of riding a company
through a recession successfully.
The questions that investors should ask there CEOs is
whether they are able to monetize on market-indicators as the recovery approaches.
Investors who are looking to capitalize on the recovery should predominantly understand the teams that are running the companies, and assess the teams’ ability to analyze and perform the market indicators....
Rod Smith • National Planning Corporation
- What is your investment style? by Ron Rowland
- Solid, if unspectacular, full-year 2014 GDP—even as Q4 disappoints
- What volatility derivatives can tell you about the stock market by Lawrence G. McMillan
- Promoting a partnership approach (Brian Glaze & Larry Ware, LPL Financial)
The survey found that institutional investor sentiment toward IPOs is extremely positive globally. 82% of investors surveyed have invested in IPO or pre-IPO stocks in the last 12 months, compared to only 18% in the past 2-3 years. Investors cited brighter earnings outlooks, improving macroeconomic conditions, stable markets, and higher risk appetite as factors that could further improve sentiments. Investors look for good quality companies priced attractively that are led by the right management team and have a compelling growth story, regardless of market conditions. Preparing well for an IPO is critical for success.
Michal A. Kaszas ( HardWood Capital & ISTI Valuation and Strategy specialist) course Advanced Corporate Finance & Strategic Investments. Learn how to conduct strategic analysis and gain competitive advantage via Real Option valuation and application
This document provides an overview of how to build an M&A strategy, outlining a 6-step process: 1) determine business plan drivers, 2) acquisition financing constraints, 3) develop an acquisition candidate list, 4) build preliminary valuation models, 5) rate and rank acquisition candidates, and 6) review and approve the strategy with key stakeholders. The goal is to translate a company's strategic business plan into a prioritized list of target acquisitions by evaluating how deals fit financing constraints and impact business objectives. Preliminary models estimate acquisition costs and returns to facilitate strategy development and approval.
Measure What Matters - New Perspectives on Portfolio SelectionUMT
The document discusses new frameworks for IT portfolio selection that consider both financial and strategic metrics. It summarizes that traditional portfolio selection focused solely on financial metrics, but recent research shows this led to underinvestment in strategic areas. The new framework evaluates investments from four perspectives: demand, supply, governance, and alternatives. This allows executives to consider financial returns, strategic alignment, risk exposure, architectural fit, options, costs, deadlines, and skills. Successful companies now use multiple financial and strategic metrics to optimize resource allocation and maximize investment value and benefits.
Michal A. Kaszas ( HardWood Capital & ISTI Valuation and Strategy specialist) course Advanced Corporate Finance & Strategic Investments. Learn how to conduct strategic M&A Valuation.
This document provides an overview of valuation techniques and strategic management concepts for an advanced corporate finance course. It begins with introductions and reviews key concepts like prisoners' dilemmas and valuation approaches. The main sections cover discounted cash flow valuation, including calculating free cash flows, determining weighted average cost of capital, and estimating terminal value. Other topics include strategic management tools like Porter's five forces, game theory applications, and using multiples. Worked examples are provided to demonstrate the step-by-step process of valuation. The goal is to equip students with the skills to determine a company's enterprise value through financial statement analysis and forecasting.
HireLabs Perspective: Increasing Vc Returns In Talent Assessment FirmsHireLabs Inc.
The VCs must ask themselves if they have CEOs who are capable of driving companies
as the recession bottoms.
Looking at the current slowdown in non-farm employment and the subsequent rebound strategies, HireLabs can forecast a recovery in the international labor market - lead by the US - sometime around Feb 2010 (Q1 2010).
Very few CEOs of venture-backed companies have experience of riding a company
through a recession successfully.
The questions that investors should ask there CEOs is
whether they are able to monetize on market-indicators as the recovery approaches.
Investors who are looking to capitalize on the recovery should predominantly understand the teams that are running the companies, and assess the teams’ ability to analyze and perform the market indicators....
Rod Smith • National Planning Corporation
- What is your investment style? by Ron Rowland
- Solid, if unspectacular, full-year 2014 GDP—even as Q4 disappoints
- What volatility derivatives can tell you about the stock market by Lawrence G. McMillan
- Promoting a partnership approach (Brian Glaze & Larry Ware, LPL Financial)
The survey found that institutional investor sentiment toward IPOs is extremely positive globally. 82% of investors surveyed have invested in IPO or pre-IPO stocks in the last 12 months, compared to only 18% in the past 2-3 years. Investors cited brighter earnings outlooks, improving macroeconomic conditions, stable markets, and higher risk appetite as factors that could further improve sentiments. Investors look for good quality companies priced attractively that are led by the right management team and have a compelling growth story, regardless of market conditions. Preparing well for an IPO is critical for success.
Advisors
10
Tudor Investment Corp
$6,000
10
Tudor Investment Corp
$18,000
10
Goldman Sachs Asset Mgmt
$25,600
11
King Street Capital Mgmt
$5,800
11
King Street Capital Mgmt
$17,000
11
D.E. Shaw Group
$25,300
12
SAC Capital Advisors
$5,500
12
SAC Capital Advisors
$15,000
12
Moore Capital Mgmt
$13,500
This is a risk control system that allows investors to design futures trading strategies, which generate returns with pre-defined statistical properties. It also allows modeling the correlation between the returns of the trading strategy and the returns of other assets thus enabling to create the perfect diversifier. The reserve assets can be chosen from a wide variety of underlyings. The strategy allows for tactical input through the choice of futures contracts to trade. The composition of futures portfolio can be changed whenever and as often as needed, thereby incorporating any tactical views of the fund manager. From a tactical point of view, this strategy is as active or passive as the fund manager needs it to be.
By construction, returns are drawn from the desired distribution and, forward-looking, will therefore have the targeted properties.
KAMG was established in 2000 by Kip Knelman and grew significantly before being acquired by Lazard Asset Management in 2005. In 2008, Kip reacquired the firm. KAMG utilizes a relative growth strategy focusing on small cap companies exhibiting above average revenue and earnings growth through fundamental research and analysis of management's ability to execute their business plan. The firm aims to provide a diversified portfolio of 50-70 small cap growth holdings for institutional and individual clients.
Risk Architecture and Financial Innovation October 2013Thomas Hu
This document discusses risk architecture and financial innovation in start-up investing. It covers several topics:
1) Financial technologies can facilitate goals but the industry should focus on goal facilitation, not wealth privatization. A feasible architecture relies on risk management.
2) Investing in start-ups requires understanding risk/return profiles and how firms allocate cash flows. Challenges include uncertainty, low frequency cash flows, and expectation shortfalls.
3) Value creation involves managing convexity and optionality for asymmetric payoffs skewed to the upside. Fostering environments for positive convexity and rare exponential growth is important.
The document provides an overview of the due diligence process for potential investments. It defines due diligence as the investigation and audit of an investment to confirm all relevant facts. The summary then outlines the key steps in the due diligence process, including analyzing the company's capitalization, revenue trends, competitors, valuation multiples, management, balance sheet, stock price history, and expectations.
MintKit Growth Index: A Benchmark of the Stock Market for Sprightly Growth at...MintKit Institute
The document describes the MintKit Growth Index, which aims to provide ample growth at modest risk by selecting large-cap stocks in growing markets and sectors. It overviews the index's methodology, which involves equal weighting, fundamental and technical analysis, and both quantitative and qualitative screening. The final roster includes 10 stocks across various industries. The index is intended to outperform broad benchmarks like the S&P 500 by favoring undervalued, high-growth companies.
This is a guide to help Founders build iconic businesses during challenging times and navigate the new rules of growth vs. profitability post-COVID-19.
The document discusses making the transition from a project mindset to an investment mindset when managing a portfolio management office (PMO). It outlines seven key principles for PMOs to adopt an investment approach, including viewing initiatives as a portfolio of investments and focusing on risk-return optimization, execution, and measuring performance using financial metrics. The document is an executive briefing from Opptiv, a company that provides strategic portfolio management software and services to help organizations invest in growth.
Modern Portfolio Professionals must now make the value leap from a PROJECT mindset to an INVESTMENT mindset. To make this happen, they must communicate in the strategic and financial terms that their CFO, CEO, Board and other leaders understand and REALLY care about. Click through the Slideshare to get the full story.
Considerations for a sustainable corporate venture program by Robert Ackerma...the Hartsook Letter
Reputation is Key to the Success/Failure of a CVC Program
* Corporate Venturing is Here to Stay
* Increased Scrutiny Requires Deliberate Steps
* Model will Evolve Based on Lessons Learned
* Working with the Venture Community is Critical
* Every Transaction, Every Engagement, Every Partnership contributes to the Corporate Reputation
The Investment Opportunities behind Special-Purpose Acquisition CompaniesDavidKim675
This document discusses special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). SPACs are "blank check" companies formed to raise capital through an IPO with the purpose of acquiring an existing company. The timeline of a SPAC involves an IPO, acquisition period where investors can vote to approve a merger, and potential merger. Pros include retail investors accessing private markets and guaranteed funds for acquired companies. Cons include dependency on SPAC managers and price volatility during acquisition. Data on recent SPAC mergers is provided, along with analysis of SPAC index performance and the author's preferred investment strategy.
This study examines the use of principal component analysis (PCA) to identify the most significant variables considered during the initial review of business proposals submitted by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) seeking venture capital funding in Ghana. PCA was performed on 11 variables from a sample of business proposals. The analysis found that the first four principal components, focusing on economic impact, financial viability, technical viability, and market analysis, explained over 70% of the variability in the data. The study concludes these four variables should be the most important factors considered during the initial desktop review of funding proposals submitted by SMEs. Using statistical techniques like PCA can help make the initial proposal screening process more efficient and scientific.
Jong Oh • FSC Securities Corporation
- Market philosophy: where active management begins by Linda Ferentchak
- U.S. bull market "long-in-the-tooth" - or is it?
- Technology enhances firm and client communications (Rich Ralston, WRP Investments, Inc.)
An Introduction to Mergers & Acquisitions. If You Would Like to Learn How to Value a Company and become Proficient at Financial Modeling use our special deal offer until the 31st of December:
https://www.udemy.com/beginner-to-pro-in-excel-financial-modeling-and-valuation/?couponCode=exceldeal
The future of corporate venturing looks bright!Ewa Grzechnik
A recent study involving 88 entrepreneurs backed by corporate investors, paints a very positive outlook for the Corporate Venturing industry. This presentation summarizes some key findings from the study. Please contact me on twitter @ewencja if you have any questions or comments!
Using Portfolio Management to Improve Business InvestmentCarolyn Reid
Structured Portfolio Management is very valuable to businesses in maximizing their Return on Investment. Portfolio Management ties investments to strategy to ensure the organization is realizing it's expected benefits and achieving it's strategy.
Mercer Capital's Portfolio Valuation: Private Equity and Venture Capital Mark...Mercer Capital
Mercer Capital's Portfolio Valuation: Private Equity and Venture Capital Marks and Trends Newsletter provides a brief digest and commentary of some of the most relevant market trends influencing the fair value regarding private equity portfolio investments.
A consulting firm's value is determined by multiplying its last 12 months of profit (EBIT) by a multiple between 0-30 times. The most important factor for the multiple is future profit growth risk. There are eight levers that impact risk and valuation, including growth history, future risk, market premium, and synergy premium. Consulting firms can increase their value by developing plans to improve performance on the eight levers over time in order to reduce risk, boost profits, and command a higher multiple when exiting the business.
Proactive Alternatives strategies for the sophisticated HNW investor with actively managed accounts. A currency hedge works well against rising interest rate volatility.
There are multiple niches in the microcap space where GeoInvesting’s track record has proven that consistent alpha can be achieved. Each strategy provides favorable percentage returns, but is limited in size. A combination of well-defined strategies can enhance portfolio returns by offering the benefit of diversifying into uncrowded situations with low market correlation without overexposing to a single stock.
We believe the best way for a company of your size to approach a microcap strategy would be to deploy a target capital amount across a few basket portfolios of around 5 stocks each. These baskets can vary by strategy and time horizon. Around these baskets, we can implement one-off ideas as they emerge based on very high probability special situations
This slide presentation is an overview of Conner Management Group, LLC (CMG), an investment management firm. CMG is an SEC registered investment advisor.
Advisors
10
Tudor Investment Corp
$6,000
10
Tudor Investment Corp
$18,000
10
Goldman Sachs Asset Mgmt
$25,600
11
King Street Capital Mgmt
$5,800
11
King Street Capital Mgmt
$17,000
11
D.E. Shaw Group
$25,300
12
SAC Capital Advisors
$5,500
12
SAC Capital Advisors
$15,000
12
Moore Capital Mgmt
$13,500
This is a risk control system that allows investors to design futures trading strategies, which generate returns with pre-defined statistical properties. It also allows modeling the correlation between the returns of the trading strategy and the returns of other assets thus enabling to create the perfect diversifier. The reserve assets can be chosen from a wide variety of underlyings. The strategy allows for tactical input through the choice of futures contracts to trade. The composition of futures portfolio can be changed whenever and as often as needed, thereby incorporating any tactical views of the fund manager. From a tactical point of view, this strategy is as active or passive as the fund manager needs it to be.
By construction, returns are drawn from the desired distribution and, forward-looking, will therefore have the targeted properties.
KAMG was established in 2000 by Kip Knelman and grew significantly before being acquired by Lazard Asset Management in 2005. In 2008, Kip reacquired the firm. KAMG utilizes a relative growth strategy focusing on small cap companies exhibiting above average revenue and earnings growth through fundamental research and analysis of management's ability to execute their business plan. The firm aims to provide a diversified portfolio of 50-70 small cap growth holdings for institutional and individual clients.
Risk Architecture and Financial Innovation October 2013Thomas Hu
This document discusses risk architecture and financial innovation in start-up investing. It covers several topics:
1) Financial technologies can facilitate goals but the industry should focus on goal facilitation, not wealth privatization. A feasible architecture relies on risk management.
2) Investing in start-ups requires understanding risk/return profiles and how firms allocate cash flows. Challenges include uncertainty, low frequency cash flows, and expectation shortfalls.
3) Value creation involves managing convexity and optionality for asymmetric payoffs skewed to the upside. Fostering environments for positive convexity and rare exponential growth is important.
The document provides an overview of the due diligence process for potential investments. It defines due diligence as the investigation and audit of an investment to confirm all relevant facts. The summary then outlines the key steps in the due diligence process, including analyzing the company's capitalization, revenue trends, competitors, valuation multiples, management, balance sheet, stock price history, and expectations.
MintKit Growth Index: A Benchmark of the Stock Market for Sprightly Growth at...MintKit Institute
The document describes the MintKit Growth Index, which aims to provide ample growth at modest risk by selecting large-cap stocks in growing markets and sectors. It overviews the index's methodology, which involves equal weighting, fundamental and technical analysis, and both quantitative and qualitative screening. The final roster includes 10 stocks across various industries. The index is intended to outperform broad benchmarks like the S&P 500 by favoring undervalued, high-growth companies.
This is a guide to help Founders build iconic businesses during challenging times and navigate the new rules of growth vs. profitability post-COVID-19.
The document discusses making the transition from a project mindset to an investment mindset when managing a portfolio management office (PMO). It outlines seven key principles for PMOs to adopt an investment approach, including viewing initiatives as a portfolio of investments and focusing on risk-return optimization, execution, and measuring performance using financial metrics. The document is an executive briefing from Opptiv, a company that provides strategic portfolio management software and services to help organizations invest in growth.
Modern Portfolio Professionals must now make the value leap from a PROJECT mindset to an INVESTMENT mindset. To make this happen, they must communicate in the strategic and financial terms that their CFO, CEO, Board and other leaders understand and REALLY care about. Click through the Slideshare to get the full story.
Considerations for a sustainable corporate venture program by Robert Ackerma...the Hartsook Letter
Reputation is Key to the Success/Failure of a CVC Program
* Corporate Venturing is Here to Stay
* Increased Scrutiny Requires Deliberate Steps
* Model will Evolve Based on Lessons Learned
* Working with the Venture Community is Critical
* Every Transaction, Every Engagement, Every Partnership contributes to the Corporate Reputation
The Investment Opportunities behind Special-Purpose Acquisition CompaniesDavidKim675
This document discusses special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). SPACs are "blank check" companies formed to raise capital through an IPO with the purpose of acquiring an existing company. The timeline of a SPAC involves an IPO, acquisition period where investors can vote to approve a merger, and potential merger. Pros include retail investors accessing private markets and guaranteed funds for acquired companies. Cons include dependency on SPAC managers and price volatility during acquisition. Data on recent SPAC mergers is provided, along with analysis of SPAC index performance and the author's preferred investment strategy.
This study examines the use of principal component analysis (PCA) to identify the most significant variables considered during the initial review of business proposals submitted by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) seeking venture capital funding in Ghana. PCA was performed on 11 variables from a sample of business proposals. The analysis found that the first four principal components, focusing on economic impact, financial viability, technical viability, and market analysis, explained over 70% of the variability in the data. The study concludes these four variables should be the most important factors considered during the initial desktop review of funding proposals submitted by SMEs. Using statistical techniques like PCA can help make the initial proposal screening process more efficient and scientific.
Jong Oh • FSC Securities Corporation
- Market philosophy: where active management begins by Linda Ferentchak
- U.S. bull market "long-in-the-tooth" - or is it?
- Technology enhances firm and client communications (Rich Ralston, WRP Investments, Inc.)
An Introduction to Mergers & Acquisitions. If You Would Like to Learn How to Value a Company and become Proficient at Financial Modeling use our special deal offer until the 31st of December:
https://www.udemy.com/beginner-to-pro-in-excel-financial-modeling-and-valuation/?couponCode=exceldeal
The future of corporate venturing looks bright!Ewa Grzechnik
A recent study involving 88 entrepreneurs backed by corporate investors, paints a very positive outlook for the Corporate Venturing industry. This presentation summarizes some key findings from the study. Please contact me on twitter @ewencja if you have any questions or comments!
Using Portfolio Management to Improve Business InvestmentCarolyn Reid
Structured Portfolio Management is very valuable to businesses in maximizing their Return on Investment. Portfolio Management ties investments to strategy to ensure the organization is realizing it's expected benefits and achieving it's strategy.
Mercer Capital's Portfolio Valuation: Private Equity and Venture Capital Mark...Mercer Capital
Mercer Capital's Portfolio Valuation: Private Equity and Venture Capital Marks and Trends Newsletter provides a brief digest and commentary of some of the most relevant market trends influencing the fair value regarding private equity portfolio investments.
A consulting firm's value is determined by multiplying its last 12 months of profit (EBIT) by a multiple between 0-30 times. The most important factor for the multiple is future profit growth risk. There are eight levers that impact risk and valuation, including growth history, future risk, market premium, and synergy premium. Consulting firms can increase their value by developing plans to improve performance on the eight levers over time in order to reduce risk, boost profits, and command a higher multiple when exiting the business.
Proactive Alternatives strategies for the sophisticated HNW investor with actively managed accounts. A currency hedge works well against rising interest rate volatility.
There are multiple niches in the microcap space where GeoInvesting’s track record has proven that consistent alpha can be achieved. Each strategy provides favorable percentage returns, but is limited in size. A combination of well-defined strategies can enhance portfolio returns by offering the benefit of diversifying into uncrowded situations with low market correlation without overexposing to a single stock.
We believe the best way for a company of your size to approach a microcap strategy would be to deploy a target capital amount across a few basket portfolios of around 5 stocks each. These baskets can vary by strategy and time horizon. Around these baskets, we can implement one-off ideas as they emerge based on very high probability special situations
This slide presentation is an overview of Conner Management Group, LLC (CMG), an investment management firm. CMG is an SEC registered investment advisor.
The Small Cap Focused Growth portfolio underperformed its benchmark in Q1 due to disappointing guidance from two large holdings, SPS Commerce and The Advisory Board, which fell 39% and 33% respectively. Additionally, investor sentiment turned negative towards the portfolio's focus on high secular growth stocks, favoring lower growth, lower volatility stocks. However, the portfolio manager remains confident that focusing on companies capable of sustained high growth will generate strong long-term returns, as short-term volatility in stock prices often diverges from long-term earnings potential.
With 25 years of investment management experience I am excited to begin my own firm in order to grow and preserve the hard earned assets of my clients.
Private companies can learn from private equity firms' disciplined approach to exits by planning up to 24 months in advance. This involves thoroughly reviewing operations through an "exit lens" to identify growth opportunities and problems to address. It also means demonstrating growth through observable outcomes rather than just projections, developing a sustainable independent sales function, and ensuring strong leadership remains during and after the transaction. Advanced preparation allows flexibility and positions the company optimally for a successful exit.
Conner Management Group is an investment management firm that uses proprietary algorithms to implement value and momentum investing strategies. It manages separately managed accounts for individuals and institutions. The firm's strategies include an equity income strategy, value strategy, value and momentum strategy, and option portfolio strategy. Conner Management focuses on concentrated portfolios of 10-20 stocks and aims to outperform benchmarks like the S&P 500 with its approach of combining fundamental value analysis with quantitative momentum signals. It provides quarterly performance updates to clients to communicate the drivers of returns in easy to understand terms.
This slide deck is from the webinar: Start with the Exit in Mind, presented by SecureDocs Virtual Data Room & TechStrat.
TechStrat Founder, Nat Burgess shares helpful, real-world advice on how tech companies can maximize M&A opportunities.
- The fund employs a contrarian investment strategy, focusing on out-of-favor industries and stocks that have fallen from investor support, with the view that they have potential to regain popularity within three years.
- Their "middle-down" research process identifies attractive industries first before performing bottom-up analysis on individual companies, focusing on those trading at discounts to tangible book value and cash flow.
- They construct a concentrated portfolio of less than 60 stocks across multiple sectors, with a maximum position of 5% and target market caps between $500 million to $1 billion.
Aspiriant sought a single marketing agency to handle all of their needs in a consistent manner. Proforma became their go-to agency, designing newsletters, email templates, and print materials while consistently applying Aspiriant's brand standards. Proforma also supported the launch of Aspiriant's pioneering risk-managed global equity fund by crafting messaging, designing websites and financial collateral.
Buy-side M&A - Qualifying Your Seller & Finding ValueFirmex
Watch Full Webinar here: http://www.firmex.com/Qualifying-Your-Seller-Finding-Value-Sign-Up
How to avoid surprises and common mistakes, analyzing business issues in due diligence and how data rooms are playing a role in the due diligence process
The document describes an upcoming webinar on M&A best practices hosted by Firmex. It provides details on the event such as the date, time, and speaker. The speaker, Andrew J. Sherman, is introduced, including his background and accomplishments. Trends for buyers to consider in M&A deals for 2012 are listed, and developing an acquisition plan is emphasized as critical for avoiding post-closing failures. Qualifying criteria for screening potential acquisition targets are also discussed.
The document summarizes recent awards and growth at Lawler Partners accounting firm. It discusses the firm winning two national awards for best accounting and professional services firm. It highlights the firm's commitment to exceeding client expectations and understanding their businesses. It also notes the firm's continued growth in the Sydney market and transition from a regional to mid-tier national firm.
Mercer Capital's Portfolio Valuation: Private Equity and Venture Capital Mark...Mercer Capital
This document provides a summary of private equity, venture capital, and portfolio valuation trends from Mercer Capital. It discusses several topics:
- Private equity deal activity and valuations remain robust, though pricing pressure is being felt as traditional PE investors look outside their typical sectors and geographies for opportunities. Technology deals accounted for 20% of PE buyouts in the first quarter of 2017, up from a historical average of 10-15%.
- Venture capital investments increased slightly in the first quarter of 2017 after two consecutive quarters of declines, reaching $16.5 billion. However, restrictions on visa programs and international trade could negatively impact venture-backed companies.
- Regulatory scrutiny of portfolio valuations continues, so
Motilal Oswal Case Study in Switzerland financial magazine - Sep 2016South Asia Fast Track
1) Motilal Oswal Financial Services found itself needing to transform its business model in 2014 to improve its return on equity (ROE).
2) It focused on building four engines to drive sustainable ROE growth: 1) Returning to its core competence of active investing through new mutual funds. 2) Starting an affordable housing finance business, Aspire Home Finance, to deploy capital. 3) Committing its own capital to sponsor its asset management and private equity funds. 4) Restructuring its brokerage business to be more cost-efficient and focus on institutional clients.
Mergers & Acquisitions: What Winners Do to Beat the OddsL.E.K. Consulting
Activity in M&A often comes in bursts. As of the second quarter of 2013, the scent is in the air. Company management is flush with cash, bolstered by buoyant share prices, and face slow prospects for organic growth.
But capturing value by creating a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts is risky. Recently, L.E.K. Consulting analyzed the performance of more than 2,500 M&As between 1993 and 2010 – a period that included two boom and bust economic cycles. L.E.K. found that nearly 60% of companies destroyed shareholder value after the deal closed.
In this new Executive Insights, L.E.K. shares how management can overcome common pitfalls to beat the long odds of creating value through mergers and acquisitions. From identifying the right target to synergy valuation to post-merger integration, winners have shown that with the right approach, value through M&A can be found and captured.
This document provides information about Tachyon GL BAL Advisors LLP, an investment banking firm. It outlines the company's vision to be one of the best investment bankers globally based on quality input and services. The company aims to achieve 99% customer satisfaction. Tachyon has global locations and expertise in deal structuring, due diligence, and closing deals. It has a track record of successful fund raising and closing transactions across various sectors. The company focuses on strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and debt syndication.
NOVA is a multi-manager multi-strategy managed asset program looking for seed capital. This presentation represents simulated returns comprised of actual manager trading results.
Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy White PaperFranCnsult
The document discusses a client's strategy of acquiring private companies through mergers and exchanges of shares to become wholly owned subsidiaries. This provides ownership liquidity for private companies while allowing current management to maintain operational control. The client seeks profitable companies with strong management to join this cooperative network to access growth capital and tax advantages. The structure involves issuing exclusive series of preferred shares to provide owners rights and attract investors through dividend payments. The goal is to expand businesses through creative financing while maintaining autonomy.
This document discusses building an "advantaged portfolio" at the corporate level. It defines an advantaged portfolio as having three key characteristics: being strategically sound, value-creating, and resilient.
To be strategically sound, a portfolio must be competitively positioned in attractive industries and markets where the company can win, support a balanced portfolio of innovation initiatives, and create synergies across businesses.
To be value-creating, a portfolio must maximize intrinsic value as measured by discounted cash flows, address capital market valuation to ensure market value aligns with intrinsic value over time, and maximize the portfolio's value to potential other owners.
Finally, a resilient portfolio can withstand various scenarios in its industry and builds flexibility through
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Maj Soueidan Oct 2016 Traders For A Cause PresentationGeoInvesting LLC
Maj Soueidan is the founder of GeoInvesting.com, which helps everyday investors find underfollowed micro-cap stock ideas through information arbitrage. GeoInvesting educates investors, saves them time performing research, and aims to provide institutional-quality ideas. Maj takes advantage of readily available information not found by others to identify inflection points in stocks before they are processed by the broader market. While some of Maj's past ideas have increased over 1,000%, others that were once multi-baggers are now down substantially. GeoInvesting presents elevator pitches on ideas, issues daily reports, and keeps members alerted through social media.
Maj Soueidan Oct 2016 Microcap Conference Philly PresentationGeoInvesting LLC
Inflection points can serve as triggers for you to invest in particular stocks right before the meat of their growth cycles or at a time when they’ve improved their risk profiles for various reasons. I’ve found that the identification of inflection points has helped me pinpoint companies that tend to become acquisition targets. Of over 40 stocks that have been both the focus of our research AND acquired, some of these acquisitions were actually predicted by my team; others were just a byproduct of what happens when good research is rewarded.
Shedding Light on Tech Pro Technology (03823.HK)GeoInvesting LLC
• Tech Pro is a company that seems to be suffering from an identity crisis
• We believe the stock price is detached from the reality of our on the ground due diligence and the company’s financials
• Our due diligence raises questions that we believe should be brought to the attention of both the company’s auditor and regulators
• We believe the company will require continued dilutive equity financing to sustain operations
• We are currently short Tech Pro (03823.HK)
One of key strategies I use to find microcap diamonds in the rough is to combine the concepts of Growth + Value. On April 11, 2016, I presented (videos at bottom) at the 2016 Microcap Conference Toronto, where I gave a speech on this very subject. More detail on this presentation can be seen at my blog, http://geoinvesting.com/combining-tenets-growth-value-find-hidden-microcap-opportunities/.
President and Co-Founder of GeoInvesting presented at the 2016 Microcap Conference in Toronto, focusing on stock trading and investing strategies revolving around using a combination of growth and value when selecting investments.
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April 11, 2016 - Heng Ren White Paper on Chinese BuyoutsGeoInvesting LLC
- 38 Chinese companies have announced management buyouts of US shareholders since 2015, offering below-average premiums. On average, premiums were less than three-quarters of the US average.
- These companies significantly increased their cash holdings after listing in the US, from an average of $46M pre-IPO to $280M at the time of buyout announcements. However, they are squeezing out US investors at prices below fair value and sometimes even below the IPO price.
- After buying out US shareholders, some companies have offered shares in China at much higher values, indicating the buyout offers to US investors were too low and unfairly enriched company management. Regulators need to close loopholes to
Moseda Technologies Company Presentation, November 2015GeoInvesting LLC
Moseda Technologies Inc. primarily engages in the development and operation of mobile device management software systems that allow the management to tracking of assets using mobile devices. It develops SmartCare, a mobile health solution for accessing, tracking, and managing patient health records securely from the Web, smartphone, or tablet; for automatic vital tracking; and for healthcare providers to manage staff and tasks. The company also provides SmartCare@Home, a telemedicine solution that utilizes the mobile, wearables, and SaaS technology to allow for remote patient monitoring. In addition, it offers SmartFleet, a fleet and asset tracking software for businesses that operate mobile and vehicle fleets. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Moseda Technologies Inc. primarily engages in the development and operation of mobile device management software systems that allow the management to tracking of assets using mobile devices. It develops SmartCare, a mobile health solution for accessing, tracking, and managing patient health records securely from the Web, smartphone, or tablet; for automatic vital tracking; and for healthcare providers to manage staff and tasks. The company also provides SmartCare@Home, a telemedicine solution that utilizes the mobile, wearables, and SaaS technology to allow for remote patient monitoring. In addition, it offers SmartFleet, a fleet and asset tracking software for businesses that operate mobile and vehicle fleets. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
This CEO will present Phase 2 clinical trial results on November 7th that could revolutionize Alzheimer's treatment. If the results continue the promising early Phase 2A results of 83% of patients benefiting and a 4x improvement in memory over current drugs, the small company's stock could experience unprecedented gains as high as 2,150% as it moves towards Phase 3 trials. The discovery of an effective treatment for Alzheimer's, which currently has no cure, could be worth $67 billion annually and save the US healthcare system from being overwhelmed by rising Alzheimer's costs in the coming decades.
The document summarizes several stock picks and trades made by GeoInvesting between February and April 2015:
- They traded in and out of AMCN based on news and an investment valuing the stock at $8.
- They added to their position in ESCC at $0.40 in March 2015 based on an imminent liability resolution announced in April, causing the stock to rise 100%.
- In April they stated ORBK's muted reaction to strong earnings was a buying opportunity but visibility may only extend a few quarters.
- Several other trades and recommendations over this period included TOUR, HOFT, GBSN, NNBR, NVEE, ISDR, MNTX, BIOQ, LAS
L & L Energy's (LLEN) Dickson Lee Sentencing Memorandum - 2015GeoInvesting LLC
This document is a government sentencing memo recommending a 60 month prison sentence for Dickson Lee, the founder and CEO of coal company L&L Energy. It summarizes that Lee pled guilty to securities fraud for fabricating the existence of a CFO and lying on SEC filings to fraudulently obtain a NASDAQ listing, which boosted the company's stock price. It also claims that later, with the company desperate for cash, Lee secretly issued and dumped over 500,000 shares on the market without disclosure. The memo argues the fraud was severe and undermined market integrity, and that the sentencing guidelines fail to capture the full severity of Lee's actions.
Vocus cloud marketing software analyst day presentation june 6 2012GeoInvesting LLC
- Vocus provides cloud marketing software to help businesses attract, engage and retain customers.
- Digital marketing represents a significant opportunity, with the market expected to grow to $77 billion by 2016.
- Vocus' software suite addresses key functions of modern digital marketing like social, search, email and publicity.
- The company has a scalable and profitable business model focused on the SMB market of $3,000-30,000 customers.
We have reason to believe that the SEC already has Qihoo on its radar. Given the information presented in this report, along with other issues that we have omitted, we believe that Qihoo will be delisted from the NYSE and management charged with securities fraud.
Equity Insights - Sionex (SINX) Research Report May 2012GeoInvesting LLC
Sionix designs, develops, markets, and sells water management and treatment
solutions intended for use in the oil and gas, agriculture, disaster relief, and
municipal (both potable and wastewater) markets. The Company’s Mobile
Water Treatment System (“MWTS”) is configured dependent upon customer
requirements and integrates components and technologies based on those
requirements. Within these systems, the company utilizes a Dissolved Air
Floatation (“DAF”) system with patented technology that management
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The Sionix technology utilizes and refines DAF technology to provide a pretreatment
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aids that can be more efficient and cost-effective. The company’s patented
technology makes micro-bubbles that allow a much greater percentage of
contaminants to be captured, floated to the surface, and skimmed off with
minimal use of chemicals. The Company’s MWTS is mobile and modular such
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markets and can meet customers’ needs for new systems or to replace or
integrate with existing filtration technologies. Sionix was initially incorporated
in Utah in 1996 and reincorporated in Nevada in 2003. The company’s website
is www.sionix.com.
The document is a presentation from Neenah Paper, Inc. given at an investor conference in February 2012. It provides an overview of Neenah Paper, including:
1) Neenah Paper leads in performance-based technical products and high-end printing papers. It has two business segments: Technical Products and Fine Paper.
2) The company has successfully transformed its business mix and financial performance through strategic acquisitions and focus on specialty markets.
3) Neenah Paper has continued strong financial momentum, with top and bottom line growth, improving margins, and increasing return on capital. A recent acquisition is expected to further drive growth and value creation.
Conclusive Proof that L&L International (LLEN) Does Not Own the Ping Yi MineGeoInvesting LLC
In a red flag alert issued to our premium members Friday, January 13th, 2012, we presented a Chinese SAIC filing and multiple website links showing that the Ping Yi Mine that allegedly represents 37% of LLEN’s production capacity is owned not by LLEN, but by an investment group of four Chinese nationals led by Mr. Hu Shiwei, and that this group is currently offering the mine for sale in China.
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This PowerPoint compilation offers a comprehensive overview of 20 leading innovation management frameworks and methodologies, selected for their broad applicability across various industries and organizational contexts. These frameworks are valuable resources for a wide range of users, including business professionals, educators, and consultants.
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5. Agile Innovation Framework
6. Doblin’s Ten Types of Innovation
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8. Customer Journey Map
9. Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation Theory
10. Blue Ocean Strategy
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12. Design Sprint Framework
13. The Double Diamond
14. Lean Six Sigma DMAIC
15. TRIZ Problem-Solving Framework
16. Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
17. Stage-Gate Model
18. Toyota’s Six Steps of Kaizen
19. Microsoft’s Digital Transformation Framework
20. Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
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GeoInvesting Strategies and Case Studies
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Microcap Strategies
GeoInvesting concentrates on small capitalization stocks, mainly microcaps. We generate stock ideas on which
you can choose to allocate your capital according to your management style. We also organize ideas into different
themed portfolios. While a large part of our strategy focuses on identifying companies entering inflection points
for short term appreciation, many go on to perform surprisingly well over the long because of solid fundamentals.
Based on our time horizons, it’s reasonable that you can develop your own strategy in conjunction with our
research and portfolios.
We populate these portfolios from strategies that fall into either the “fundamental” or “special situation” category.
Portfolios
Buy on
Pullback
Run to One
(r21)
Takeover
Candidate
Tier 1 OTC Multibagger
Strategies
Fundamental
GARP Contrarian
Special
Situations
M&A Turnaround
Non-Dilutive
Offerings
Activism
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The core of our strategies is based on fundamentals.
As opposed to some other microcap investors, we put the bulk of our emphasis on companies that are profitable (or
nearing profitability) and avoid companies with bad capital structures and a near term need to raise capital under
adverse conditions. We do not exclude any industries by principal, but rather we believe there are areas where we
have no differential edge, which we avoid. Some examples of these scenarios include pre-revenue biotech startups,
exploration stage energy companies, and most commodity price-dependent businesses. Our investments are
generally concentrated in North America.
Special situations are ideas based more on event-driven catalysts and qualitative analysis. These are usually near
term in nature and are opportunities that tend to arise on short notice. Our special situations research not only
identifies great one-off opportunities, but feeds ideas into our fundamental ideas funnel since that is our natural
focus.
Model Portfolios
We create model portfolios that each follow a distinct theme and will generally include stocks from our core
strategies. The investment time horizon is usually between 3 months to 3 to 5 years but might be shorter or longer
dependent on the situation. The performance of our mock portfolios has been outstanding, especially our “Buy on
Pullback” and “Run to One” (r21) portfolios. We can design mock portfolios a la cart.
We are constantly on the search for stocks that react negatively, or have muted reactions, to good news. These
types of overreactions or underreactions are often the result of market gyrations or the inability of investors to
digest the scope of a particular event. “Buy on Pullback” model portfolios are designed to take advantage of these
mispricing scenarios.
Portfolio Initiated Status # of Stocks Return Peak Return
Buy on Pullback #1 Jan-16 6/16/2018 4 16.99% 36.15%
Buy on Pullback #2 Jun-16 10/16/2018 5 19.16% 87.76%
Buy on Pullback #3 Oct-16 Ongoing 5 69.43% 87.76%
Buy on Pullback #4 Mar-17 1/18/2018 4 44.43% 53.18%
Buy on Pullback #5 Jun-17 Ongoing 5 17.30% 30.13%
Buy on Pullback #6 Sep-17 Ongoing 5 27.40% 42.06%
Run-to-One Sep-13 Ongoing 19 205.32% 379.28%
Multi-Bagger May-17 Ongoing 7 14.19% 89.44%
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Case Studies
Growth at a Reasonable Price (GARP)
The bread and butter of Geo’s long strategy has three pillars:
(1) Buying growing companies at a reasonable price (GARP), which are
(2) Nearing an inflection point,
(3) Where we have differential insights that are not fully digested by the
market
We call acting on this insight information arbitrage (InfoArb).
Some of our favorite inflection points that we look for include:
➢ Reduced leverage
➢ Margin expansion
➢ New product cycle
➢ Finding new revenue for a mature legacy product
➢ More wallet-share from current customers
➢ Acquisitions
➢ Reduced customer concentration
➢ New management
➢ Activists enter the picture
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Case Study: NV5 Global Inc
Finding a growing profitable company led by great management early
Ticker NASDAQ: NVEE Price at Initiation $ 13.00 Time Horizon 5 Months
Price Exit $ 21.38 Return 64.46%
*data as of 3/8/2018
➢ With NV5 Holdings, we found a management team that had rapidly built the company from a start-up in
2009 to a growing, highly profitable, and formidable firm that provided professional and technical
engineering, as well as consulting solutions, to public and private sector clients in the infrastructure, energy,
construction, real estate and environmental markets.
➢ Management worked together in the past to successfully build and grow companies.
➢ We believed that cash from a warrant redemption would be put to good use as management continued to
pursue accretive acquisitions while mitigating risk through customer diversification.
➢ Our price target of around $21.00 did not take into account future acquisitions that we believed NVEE would
complete.
➢ Key to our insights was commentary in an almost unattended conference call. After that we reached out to
management, built a relationship with CEO Dickerson Wright, and even interviewed him on a public radio
channel targeted at investors.
➢ We locked in an over 60% gain between Dec. 15 2014 and May 19, 2015.
➢ The stock continued to perform as we expected, building on a proven growth concept that we believe still
has runway. We follow the company closely, maintain our relationship with management, and trade in this
stock profitably to this day.
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Case Study: GTT Communications
Information Arbitrage around management changes and an operational inflection point
Ticker NYSE: GTT Price at Initiation $ 4.25 Time Horizon 14 Months
Price Exit $ 12.98 Return 205.41%
*data as of 3/8/2018
➢ GTT Communications, Inc. provides cloud networking services to multinational enterprises, carriers, and
government customers worldwide.
➢ We covered GTT because we did not think investors understood how much value that a new management
team and a pending acquisition would bring to the company.
➢ We also believed that investors needed to look past the losses the company was reporting at the time, since
GTT’s business model centered on high recurring revenues, “sticky” customer relationships, and filling a
void across domestic and global cloud networks.
➢ Our analysis justified a short-term a price target of $13.50, which the stock achieved within 7 months after
Geo publishing research.
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Turnaround | Restructure | r21
Our favorite turnaround opportunities in the microcap space often involve companies with a substantial revenue
base where investors have lost the faith in strong management teams due to lack of profitability and the perpetual
need for capital injections. We know that sometimes these businesses can be viable and profitable on a smaller
scale. Looking for inflection points in a turnaround has proven to be a profitable strategy time and again, as
exemplified by our research on Zynex Inc (OTCQB:ZYXI) and many others. Some useful indicators that hint at a
successful turnaround are insider buying and the engagement of a new leadership team. A change in the business
model can sometimes cause a company to turn its stock price around, as seen in software companies that
successfully transition from lumpy licensing revenues to a cloud-based model with smoother more recurring sales.
Case Study: Zynex, Inc.
Successful turnaround taking hold, stock gains momentum after settling credit situation
Ticker OTCQB:ZYXI Price at Initiation $ 0.40 Current Return 925.00%
Price Exit Still Holding, Current Price $ 4.10
*data as of 3/8/2018
➢ Zynex, Inc is a medical technology company specializing in the manufacture and sale of non-invasive medical
devices for pain management, stroke rehabilitation, cardiac monitoring and neurological diagnostics. The
company’s products are fully developed, FDA cleared, and have been commercially sold for years.
➢ We found the company in early June 2017. Strong earnings momentum, cost cutting initiatives that were
ahead of schedule, improved collection efficiency and a debt restructuring intrigued us. Our EPS estimate
for 2017 implied substantial upside. We understood the company had problems with working capital
management and creditors and that this was a turnaround in the making.
➢ In mid-July, Zynex announced a resolution to its credit situation, along with increased expectations for 2017
and beyond.
➢ The stock is currently trading at roughly 10 times the price is was first found.
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M&A
Mergers in the small and microcap space happen frequently, but often in waves and in particular industries that are
in consolidation. The key is to identify the shift in M&A activity and locate attractive targets early. Over 40 companies
we owned were acquired following our bullish coverage. GeoInvesting was, for example, able to position early during
the consolidation of SaaS companies between 2014 and 2016, and we identified companies such VOCS, MKTG,
TNGO, and EOPN that were consequentially acquired at attractive premiums.
Case Study: Vocus Inc
Positive commentary and initiation of guidance, company meets criteria for SaaS buyout
target
Ticker NASDAQ: VOCS Price at Initiation $ 10.67 Time Horizon 11 Months
Price Exit $ 18.00 Return 68.70%
*data as of 3/8/2018
➢ Vocus Inc was a cloud-based marketing automation service provider.
➢ We noticed the company after we discovered positive commentary in its quarterly earnings call. VOCS
started issuing guidance for the first time.
➢ A Rights Offering with heavy insider participation gave us a hint that a transaction could be on the horizon.
The company met all our standards for a tier 1 SaaS acquisition target.
➢ Less than 12 months after we initiated our coverage, Vocus was bought out at an attractive premium.
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Activism
The microcap space has recently experienced a growth in shareholder activism, with many activists moving down
the market cap totem pole in their search for alpha. Smaller companies tend to have more room for operational,
financial, and governance optimization. Successful activist plays that we’ve highlighted include operational
turnarounds like GVP, or “facilitating” a corporate transaction such as the sale of GLDC.
Case Study: Golden Enterprises Inc
Activist shapes up Company for Sale
Ticker NASDAQ: GLDC Price at Initiation $ 6.00 Time Horizon 1 Months
Price Exit $ 12.00 Return 100.00%
*data as of 3/8/2018
➢ We found snack producer Golden Enterprises in mid-2014, but it really caught our attention in 2016 after
an activist investor filed a 13D in late 2015, pushing for a sale of the company.
➢ We found indications in SEC filings that the company’s declining revenue trend might reverse after
operational adjustments. This intel was not disclosed in press releases (InfoArb).
➢ Additionally, the terms of a partnership trust agreement among insiders, buried in SEC filings) helped shape
our opinion that the company would explore a sale.
➢ Only 4 months after our initial research, and 1 month after the publication of an important research note,
the company was acquired at $12.00 per share.
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Case Study: Blue Bird Corp
Former SPAC with bogus take-over bid. Geo interviewed by Barron’s, where we publicly
opposed the transaction and called for $18 + per share in value.
Ticker NASDAQ: BLBD Price at Initiation $ 13.96 Time Horizon 9 Months
Price Exit $ 18.35 Return 31%
Ticker NASDAQ: BLBDW Price at Initiation $ 1.25 Time Horizon 18 Months
Price Exit $ 5.60 Return 350%
*data as of 3/8/2018
➢ Blue Bird is a school bus manufacturer that was founded in the 1930s. The company has been listed on the
NASDAQ as Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD) since 2015 when PE firm Cerberus Capital took them
public while retaining a majority stake.
➢ Geo began following Blue Bird in early 2016 after Cerberus sold its 57% stake to another private equity
company, American Securities. Previous American Securities funds had preferred to take investments
private in order to have total control.
➢ In July, American Securities submitted a take-over offer at $13 per share. Our legal analysis of minority
shareholder rights under Delaware law concluded that the offer would not close without approval of an
independent committee and approval by the majority of minority shareholders. On July 27, 2016, we
published a research report as to why we did not think the takeover offer would close. We were right, and
on September 8, 2016 we re-iterated our analysis along with a legal analysis of minority shareholder rights
under Delaware law. In August, our analysis was featured in Barron’s.
➢ Our fundamental analysis identified the dramatic reduction in school bus manufacturers over the last
decade as a positive industry trend with the remaining players soon to extract more profits, similar to the
aviation industry. Blue Bird was well positioned to take advantage of an improving industry environment.
➢ As the takeover fell apart, BLBD shares fell further, making for an even more attractive entry point. In
January of 2017, Blue Bird announced it would develop a Zero Emission Vehicle supported by a $4.4mm
grant from the US Department of Energy with other entities assisting, for a total of $9mm+ of funds. Later,
Geo closed out its long position in the stock at $18.35 later closed out the warrant position at around $5.60.
Non-Dilutive Offerings
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Small and microcap stocks sometimes have big legacy stockholders. Often times, PE funds that near their exit time
who wish to sell their stake through an underwriter in a non-dilutive secondary where no new shares are issued. The
seller often has a low cost-basis, the offering is generally big relative to the shares outstanding, and the emphasis is
on getting a deal done and making a clean exit. In other instances, microcaps that sell stock in secondaries to raise
growth capital will often fall hard. We cull out the companies that we think will see earnings accretion from new
capital or if proceeds are used to pay down debt, resulting in a cleaner balance sheet.
We observe big discounts in these offerings, but the stock will generally recover quickly after the overhang is gone
and the uncertainty about the big seller is removed or selling pressure abates, as recently observed in a model
portfolio holding BXC, up over 100% since August of 2016 (see case study below). BGSF and ORBK are additional
examples of accretive secondary offerings that were misunderstood by the market, where Geo was able to take
advantage of the situation. There is extra liquidity created around these events, which allows participants to trade
in and out of these situations with bigger investment amounts.
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Case Study: Orbotech Ltd
Sizable secondary offering leads to weakness in stock, but is in reality accretive to earnings
Ticker NASDAQ: ORBK Offering Price $ 26.52 Time Horizon 1 Month
Offering Volume 3,850,000 Price Exit $ 28.82 Return 8.67%
*data as of 3/8/2018
➢ Orbotech is principally engaged in the design, development, manufacture, marketing and service of yield-
enhancing and production solutions for specialized applications in the supply chain of the electronics
industry.
➢ We initially found the company in 2015 after it increased its annual guidance. Our analysis indicated that
the company might finally turn profitable and we kept following the stock.
➢ In June 2016, the company announced a sizable secondary offering of 3.85m new shares. The stock trended
down quickly and ended up trading below the offering price.
➢ Our analysis showed that the company’s plan to deleverage the balance sheet would be immediately
accretive to earnings and we had a strong EPS outlook for the company. We initiated a position on weakness
in the stock around the time of the offering. We continue to trade profitably in the stock to this day.
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Case Study: BlueLinx Holdings Inc
Major Legacy Shareholder sells Stake through Underwriter at Big Discount, Making for
Attractive Entry Point
Ticker NASDAQ: BXC Offering Price $ 7.00 Time Horizon 1 Month
Offering Volume 3,863,850 Current Price $ 8.90 Return 27.14%
*data as of 3/8/2018
➢ BlueLinx Holdings is a leading distributor of building and industrial products in the US.
➢ We started tracking the company in late 2016 as an asset sale put them ahead of schedule in their
restructuring efforts.
➢ During our due diligence process, we learned that Cerberus Capital was a long-time investor in the
company.
➢ Cerberus’s overhang in the stock suppressed the stock price, but we anticipated they would look for an exit
soon.
➢ In September 2017, we observed weakness in the stock, and anticipated that Cerberus would soon try to
sell its stake, because Cerberus’ fund that was invested in BXC was winding down.
➢ The shares were sold in a non-dilutive secondary offering through an underwriter, BTIG LLC, who offered
GeoInvesting to participate in the offering at $7.00 per share. No new shares were issued. Cerberus just
opted to sell its stake through an underwriter.
Not only was there an opportunity to get a great return on a sizable number of shares in a trade, but we also
believe opportunities like this can enable investors to build sizable positions in quality companies to hold longer
term. BXC stock never reached the offering level price of $7.00 in open market trading.