Derby Day I got $50 on Verifying-!
I looked around and the news is lacking.Usually I get one lead from reading the Times.. nothing today.
I look through the news flow. Nothing. Ok time to fish....
HOW TO FIND A STOCK TO BUY WHEN THERE IS NOTHING TO BUY...
Vertiv is silencing the doubters
The data equipment provider has heavyweight backing in the form of activist value investor Starboard Value, and its executive chairman is longtime
Honeywell CEO Dave Cote. However, though it operates in desirable end markets, its operational performance hasn't always lived up to its potential. For example, colocation data center companies like
Equinix and
Digital Realty Trust are guiding for double-digit percentage growth this year, and the cloud/hyper-scale market remains in growth mode with companies like
Amazon,
Microsoft, and
Alphabet looking to increase their market shares.
WOA! THAT'S SOME PRETTY HEFTY FRIENDS
NYSE: VRT
Vertiv
Today's Change
(4.68%) $0.67
Current Price
$14.98
VRT
S&P
Key Data Points
Market Cap
$6B
Day's Range
$14.28 - $15.22
52wk Range
$7.76 - $17.88
Volume
4,187,373
Avg Vol
3,785,345
Gross Margin
29.85%
While end-market demand is fine, Vertiv was behind the inflation curve in 2021 and 2022, and spent much of 2022 raising prices to offset its higher costs. After
shocking the market in early 2022 by revealing an earnings miss for full-year 2021, it managed to push through pricing increases as expected in 2022, but it still missed its guidance ranges for working capital and free cash flow.
Vertiv delivers
Consequently, heading into the first-quarter earnings report, investors were concerned that there might be some bad debts out there, or that some customers would be ready to cancel orders due to the price increases. However, Vertiv's working capital and cash flow easily surpassed its guidance for the quarter.
Management also raised its full-year margin and operating profit guidance, and maintained its guidance range for $300 million to $400 million in free cash flow for the full year.
Image source: Getty Images.
With a market cap of $5.6 billion, Vertiv
trades at 16 times the midpoint of its free cash flow guidance, and that's too cheap for a company with such excellent top-line growth prospects. Meanwhile, if the Starboard Value thesis is correct and Vertiv has a medium-term opportunity to grow earnings by raising margins to the level of its peers, then it has excellent bottom-line growth prospects too.
GOOD FIND STONEY!!! HOW DID YOU DO IT....
I backtracked starting first by culling Insider buys.