Butler National Corp (BUKS) is a micro-cap company ($25M market cap) operating two very different businesses: Aerospace / Avionics and Casino Gaming Management. Both businesses generate healthy cashflows and shares are currently trading less than 6x next years earnings. Furthermore, we believe current share prices offer investors a chance to buy the Aerospace business for 10x 2019 … Continue reading Butler National Corp (BUKS): Two Good Businesses & Lots of Hair
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Arlington Value Investors Letters: Five Invaluable Lessons
**As you may know, like Batman, I lead a double-life. Let me explain. I write for this blog but am also the value investing writer for Macro-Ops.com. Below is my latest post from Macro-Ops. Check out the original here: https://macro-ops.com/arlington-value-investor-letters-five-invaluable-lessons-on-value-investing/** There aren’t many investors compounding capital at double digits over the course of decades and … Continue reading Arlington Value Investors Letters: Five Invaluable Lessons
Corteva (CTVA): Valuing The Seed & Crop Protector As It Rings The Bell
Corteva, Inc. (CTVA) is a leader in global seed and crop protection products. The company provides farmers with the right mix of seeds, crop protection and digital solutions to maximize yields and increase profitability. Their mission is to ensure an abundant food supply for the growing global population. Corteva is going public on Monday, June … Continue reading Corteva (CTVA): Valuing The Seed & Crop Protector As It Rings The Bell
When Models Fail: How Financial Models Subsidize Poor Valuation Work (TSLA & Ark Invest)
Valuation is a vital step in the process of investment analysis. Without proper valuation work, an investor cannot fully gauge the validity of their ideas. There are various tools investors have at their disposal in order to value companies, such as multiple valuation (EV/EBITDA), net asset value, sum-of-the-parts (SOTP), discounted cash flow (DCF), book value, … Continue reading When Models Fail: How Financial Models Subsidize Poor Valuation Work (TSLA & Ark Invest)
Ammo, Inc. (POWW): A Little Firepower to Your Portfolio
America is known for apple pie, baseball and guns (to name a few). Starting at the A's in my list of OTC stocks I stumbled upon Ammo, Inc. (POWW). The company produces high performance, precision ammunition for rifles and handguns. The stock is tiny ($100M market cap) and very illiquid (trading volume averages less than 5,000 shares … Continue reading Ammo, Inc. (POWW): A Little Firepower to Your Portfolio
Target Hospitality (TH): Leader in Vertically Integrated Specialty Accommodations
Target Hospitality is the largest vertically integrated specialty rental and hospitality services company in the United States. The company owns an extensive network of geographically relocatable rental accommodation units comprised of ~13,000 beds across 22 sites serving the country’s highest producing oil and gas basins. Most of the company’s revenues are generated under multi-year “take-or-pay” … Continue reading Target Hospitality (TH): Leader in Vertically Integrated Specialty Accommodations
Investing in Shipping Stocks: Lessons from Walter Schloss
***Below is a piece I wrote for Macro-Ops.com. For more information, check out their site here!*** He knows how to identify securities that sell at considerably less than their value to a private owner; And that’s all he does ... He owns many more stocks than I do and is far less interested in the … Continue reading Investing in Shipping Stocks: Lessons from Walter Schloss
Three Ideas in Shipping
Deep value is found at the corner of “yucky” and “no way in hell” and over the last twenty years, shipping stocks have exhibited those two characteristics a hundred times over. Alex did a great job summarizing the macro view of the shipping market in his latest article, which you can read here. To brush up, … Continue reading Three Ideas in Shipping
GrafTech (EAF): A Fallen IPO Generating Hefty FCF Through Long-Term Contracted Revenues
**Idea Source: Massif Capital** GrafTech International (EAF) is a leading manufacturer of high-quality graphite electrode products that are essential components to the production of Electric Arc Furnace steel. The company sports a vertically integrated, highly differentiated business model with supply-side advantages giving it pricing power over competitors. Reduced supply of electrodes coupled with increased demand … Continue reading GrafTech (EAF): A Fallen IPO Generating Hefty FCF Through Long-Term Contracted Revenues
Another Boring Business: Construction Partners, Inc. (ROAD)
I’ve probably said this sentence too many times, but it's worth repeating: Boring businesses can be fertile places to find great investments. What makes boring businesses so exciting? They never go away no matter the economic condition. This doesn’t mean that share prices of these businesses won’t falter if an entire economy declines; but it … Continue reading Another Boring Business: Construction Partners, Inc. (ROAD)
The Market Plunger 