Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Year 2010
There's slightly more than 1 trading day before the end of 2010. It was a very memorable year: the best of years, the worst of years. A lot of good things happened and a lot of bad things happened.
It seems like the only thing that hasn't changed dramatically are the stocks that I've been holding onto. But their prices have changed dramatically.
NICK: from $7 to $10
CVU: from $6 to $14 (it's not all that far from full value, from what I can tell)
CCJ: from $32 to $20 to $40
Strathmore: from 65 cents to $1.20
Fission Energy: from 20 cents to 80 cents
Berkshire Hathaway: from $66 to $80
and there's the latest firecracker, CFRI: from 10 cents to 60 cents
It was only half that price around Thanksgiving.
Unfortunately, I had sold a lot of CFRI when it looked like they might not survive (hell, it's probably still a crap shoot). Luckily I had trouble even finding buyers, so I was stuck with quite a bit. I sold some of that today.
The uranium stocks are difficult to gauge in terms of value. The spot price of uranium is finally climbing back again. A lot of factors point to a much higher value: the overprinting of just about all paper money, the acceleration of nuclear reactor building (esp in China), and the painfully slow unfolding of the demand/supply situation. I think Fission in under everyone's radar. I bought more a while back, but I know I'll regret not buying enough. I might bail out of Cameco at $45 and put maybe 1/4 of that into somewhere else in uranium, like Fission.
Something's definitely going on with CFRI.
This makes two years in a row of outrageously high returns. But even then, I still haven't gotten back up to the high water mark of early 2007. 2008 was that bad.
I have a vague sense of dread for 2011 and I'm thinking about increasing my cash percentage by some. But even cash isn't safe. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide.
UPDATE Dec 31, 2010:
Let's just take a quick comparison look at Hathor Exploration vs Fission Energy.
Hathor market cap: about US$350 million
Fission market cap: about US$93 million
I haven't done a detailed comparison of Hathor's roughrider uranium project vs Fission's Waterbury Lake project, but they're both massive (extremely high concentrations at reasonably shallow depth). Hathor's is probably more valuable and further along. So the two stock prices might be rational between each other. I worry about the Cigar Lake possibilities.
It seems like the only thing that hasn't changed dramatically are the stocks that I've been holding onto. But their prices have changed dramatically.
NICK: from $7 to $10
CVU: from $6 to $14 (it's not all that far from full value, from what I can tell)
CCJ: from $32 to $20 to $40
Strathmore: from 65 cents to $1.20
Fission Energy: from 20 cents to 80 cents
Berkshire Hathaway: from $66 to $80
and there's the latest firecracker, CFRI: from 10 cents to 60 cents
It was only half that price around Thanksgiving.
Unfortunately, I had sold a lot of CFRI when it looked like they might not survive (hell, it's probably still a crap shoot). Luckily I had trouble even finding buyers, so I was stuck with quite a bit. I sold some of that today.
The uranium stocks are difficult to gauge in terms of value. The spot price of uranium is finally climbing back again. A lot of factors point to a much higher value: the overprinting of just about all paper money, the acceleration of nuclear reactor building (esp in China), and the painfully slow unfolding of the demand/supply situation. I think Fission in under everyone's radar. I bought more a while back, but I know I'll regret not buying enough. I might bail out of Cameco at $45 and put maybe 1/4 of that into somewhere else in uranium, like Fission.
Something's definitely going on with CFRI.
This makes two years in a row of outrageously high returns. But even then, I still haven't gotten back up to the high water mark of early 2007. 2008 was that bad.
I have a vague sense of dread for 2011 and I'm thinking about increasing my cash percentage by some. But even cash isn't safe. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide.
UPDATE Dec 31, 2010:
Let's just take a quick comparison look at Hathor Exploration vs Fission Energy.
Hathor market cap: about US$350 million
Fission market cap: about US$93 million
I haven't done a detailed comparison of Hathor's roughrider uranium project vs Fission's Waterbury Lake project, but they're both massive (extremely high concentrations at reasonably shallow depth). Hathor's is probably more valuable and further along. So the two stock prices might be rational between each other. I worry about the Cigar Lake possibilities.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Weyerhaeser Company (WY)
Yep, the tree harvesting company. They manage about 6.6 million acres of private commercial forest and have long-term licenses on 15.2 million acres of forest.
Company slideshow
They're adopting a RIET structure for 2010 with what looks like all the "other" stuff in the trust.
Expect to pay 60 cents in dividends in 2011, target of 75% of Funds Available for Distribution, but it may turn out to be 100%, given the outlook of things now.
Stock price is $18.71.
Latest 10-K
Obviously, things were a lot better during the housing boom. The big question for this stock is what does the long-term wood products demand look like? There are all sorts of other issues, but I think it really boils down to macro-economics. We're not going to close down civilization. We're not going to find a fabulous cheap substitute for the massive amount of lumber needed (if you consider the amounts involved and where the material would need to come from... mining).
The company had big losses in 2007, 2008, and 2009. For the first three quarters of 2010, they've been making some money (mostly in Q3), but it's less than it appears due to a tax benefit.
Back of the envelope calculations show that the stock is selling for a reasonable price based on what's going on right now. That would seem pessimistic, but I'm only skimming the surface right now.
This stock is worth a closer look, but seeing how everyone is looking for a good commodity investment, it seems unlikely to be cheap.
Company slideshow
They're adopting a RIET structure for 2010 with what looks like all the "other" stuff in the trust.
Expect to pay 60 cents in dividends in 2011, target of 75% of Funds Available for Distribution, but it may turn out to be 100%, given the outlook of things now.
Stock price is $18.71.
Latest 10-K
Obviously, things were a lot better during the housing boom. The big question for this stock is what does the long-term wood products demand look like? There are all sorts of other issues, but I think it really boils down to macro-economics. We're not going to close down civilization. We're not going to find a fabulous cheap substitute for the massive amount of lumber needed (if you consider the amounts involved and where the material would need to come from... mining).
The company had big losses in 2007, 2008, and 2009. For the first three quarters of 2010, they've been making some money (mostly in Q3), but it's less than it appears due to a tax benefit.
Back of the envelope calculations show that the stock is selling for a reasonable price based on what's going on right now. That would seem pessimistic, but I'm only skimming the surface right now.
This stock is worth a closer look, but seeing how everyone is looking for a good commodity investment, it seems unlikely to be cheap.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Community Bank Shares of Indiana (CBIN)
Your Community Bank and Scott County State Bank
Louisville, KY standard metro statistical area.
Stock is selling for $9.24. Yahoo claims they're earning $1.68.
Quarter ending Sept 30, 2010
3.3 million shares on Nov 12, 2010.
$6.2 million net interest income after provision for losses
$1.6 million non-interest income
$5.6 million non-interest expenses (mostly service charges on deposit accounts, $2.7 million from insufficient funds type charges). This will decrease with new regulations.
net income of $1.4 million or 42 cent diluted for the Q. $1.35 for 9 months.
Let's go to the 10-K
3.3 million shares on Mar 22, 2010
Long term performance deteriorated starting in 2008 or even 2007. They took a big loss in 2009 due to a giant provision for loan losses, and some sort of massive non-interest expense. Shareholder equity fell back to 2005 levels and they lost nearly $7 a share!
Sold off some real estate loans to increase liquidity. But also foreclosures and lower loan demand. Big chargeoffs in construction loans (no surprise there). Lower mortgage servicing rights.
I hate to dump a lot of tables in here, but this one seems fairly important:
Ok, the story here is that in 2005, 2006, and 2007, things were humming right along. They picked up some allowance in 2006 with an acquisition. Looks like they saw bad news on the horizon in 2007 and provisioned accordingly. They got clobbered in 2008 and had to set aside five times as much. 2009 was far worse and they set aside twice as much as 2008. Now the allowance is three times as high going into 2010.
Let's go back to the Sept 2010 quarter.
Ok, so the last 9 months, they tossed in another $2.9 million and ended with an allowance of $12.7 million. Ok, so things look slightly better now.
Money market accounts are up, savings are up slightly, CDs are down. Total deposits are up this year.
Impaired loans are down from the end of 2009.
Note 5 in the 10-K explains the Goodwill impairment. June 2009, the stock traded below book value triggering an evaluation. They brought in a 3rd party to assist. The 10-K explains the process and they determined that the value of goodwill was $15.3 million below the carrying value.
One of Berkshire Hathaway's annual report discussions by Warren Buffett from long ago had a great discussion about goodwill which more or less turned into the current accounting rules. In the old days, companies would depreciate their goodwill, which often made no sense.
"Your Community Bank" #28915 is about 5 times bigger than "Scott County State Bank" #10485.
Start out looking at the holding company #2356073. Let's compare CBIN with 13 banks with $500 million to $1 billion assets in Kentucky, same time period of Sept 2010.
CBIN has a higher cash to assets ratio.
More commercial real estate loans
Less farmland (not surprising)
More commercial and industrial loans
Slightly more home equity loans
Way less adjustable rate residential loans
Residential loans have longer duration
Other loans have longer duration
Much less Goodwill (not surprising after the writedown)
Higher net income vs assets
Higher total bank equity capital vs assets
Much higher unused commitments: revovers, commercial real estate, other.
No derivatives
0.95% of assets are 30-89 days overdue vs 0.61% for other banks, mostly due to construction loans (which the bank mentioned)
No assets are 90+ days overdue.
1.84% assets are in non-accrual (1.02% is construction) vs 2.15% for the other banks (1.05% is construction)
3.49% net interest income vs 3.28% for the other banks
0.47% provision vs 0.61%
0.75% non-interest income vs 0.91%
2.66% non-interest expense vs 2.96%
1.10% pre-tax net operating income vs 0.62%
0.98% net income vs 0.76%
0.89% net charge-offs vs 0.46%
4.97% yield on earning assets vs 5.18%
1.06% cost of funding earning assets vs 1.57%
3.91% net interest margin vs 3.61%
0.84% non-interest income vs 1.00%
2.98% non-interest expense vs 3.25%
0.99% ROA vs 0.76%
1.78% earnings coverage of net loan charge-offs vs 2.68%
62% efficiency vs 70%
$6.6 million in assets per employee vs $3.8
2.46% loss allowance /loans vs 1.81%
83% loss allowance /noncurrent loans vs 53%
9.98% equity capital to assets vs 9.45%
9.51% core capital ratio vs 8.41%
13.62% tier 1 risk-based capital ratio vs 12.33%
14.88% total risk-based capital ratio vs 13.59%
Now let me take a quick look at Scott County State Bank to see if there's any garbage hidden in these numbers.
Yep, 1.98% of assets are 30-89 days past due.
Only .68% of assets in non-accrual status.
Performance ratios look better.
I've been considering the macroeconomic forces at work in the world and their impact on CBIN. Obviously the housing market problems are the most obvious. I've been following one local housing market for about 2 years on both Zillow and MLS and what I've seen matches Zillow's overall price indicator. I recall that Louisville has traditionally been one of the lowest priced metro housing markets in the US.
Looking at Zillow, it looks like the Louisville residential housing market has been remarkably stable since 2006. Looking at the recent entries in the market, a large number of them look distressed. $19K, $24K, $15K, $6K. There's a rental-property house for sale at $6.4K that sold in 2006 for $10K. Jumping out to the suburbs, prices in Sellersburg have been stable.
Looking for news articles...
fraud scheme uncovered where Eastern Livestock Company cycled fake checks through several banks and was based out of Your Community Bank. A different bank identified the fraud. Fifth Third Bank is seeking a judgement of $32.5 million plus $13 million against presumably Eastern Livestock.
Oh you bastards! Seeking Alpha briefly covered CBIN just about a week ago! And I mean that with the utmost respect.
This site claims that Your Community Bank and Scott County State Bank are "weak". It was posted back in August 2010.
Louisville, KY standard metro statistical area.
Stock is selling for $9.24. Yahoo claims they're earning $1.68.
The Company's current business strategy is to operate well-capitalized, profitable and independent community banks that have a significant presence in their primary market areas. The Company’s growth strategy is focused on expansion through organic growth within its market areas.Let's check the SEC statements:
Quarter ending Sept 30, 2010
3.3 million shares on Nov 12, 2010.
$6.2 million net interest income after provision for losses
$1.6 million non-interest income
$5.6 million non-interest expenses (mostly service charges on deposit accounts, $2.7 million from insufficient funds type charges). This will decrease with new regulations.
net income of $1.4 million or 42 cent diluted for the Q. $1.35 for 9 months.
Let's go to the 10-K
3.3 million shares on Mar 22, 2010
Long term performance deteriorated starting in 2008 or even 2007. They took a big loss in 2009 due to a giant provision for loan losses, and some sort of massive non-interest expense. Shareholder equity fell back to 2005 levels and they lost nearly $7 a share!
The net loss available to common shareholders in 2009 was primarily due to a goodwill and other intangible asset impairment charge of $16.2 million and provision for loan losses of $15.9 million.Net interest margins historically were just above 3% (nothing like NICK!), return on assets have been about half a percent, return on equity mid-to-high single digits. Efficiency ratio was historically in the mid 70s. The capitalization ratios on the 10-K look good, but FDIC will show more.
Sold off some real estate loans to increase liquidity. But also foreclosures and lower loan demand. Big chargeoffs in construction loans (no surprise there). Lower mortgage servicing rights.
As of December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||
(Dollars in thousands) | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | |||||||||||||||
Real estate: | ||||||||||||||||||||
Residential | $ | 134,969 | $ | 177,230 | $ | 186,831 | $ | 187,080 | $ | 111,969 | ||||||||||
Commercial | 193,577 | 206,973 | 191,774 | 179,405 | 186,644 | |||||||||||||||
Construction | 51,592 | 73,936 | 87,364 | 83,944 | 61,031 | |||||||||||||||
Commercial | 94,168 | 95,365 | 88,353 | 80,132 | 92,640 | |||||||||||||||
Home equity | 54,434 | 60,539 | 60,380 | 62,720 | 58,060 | |||||||||||||||
Consumer | 13,676 | 17,296 | 20,024 | 19,549 | 7,295 | |||||||||||||||
Loans secured by deposit accounts | 1,003 | 1,242 | 1,322 | 756 | 729 | |||||||||||||||
Total loans | $ | 543,419 | $ | 632,581 | $ | 636,048 | $ | 613,586 | $ | 518,368 | ||||||||||
(Dollars in thousands) | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | |||||||||||||||
Allowance for loan losses at beginning of year | $ | 9,478 | $ | 6,316 | $ | 5,654 | $ | 5,920 | $ | 4,523 | ||||||||||
Acquired allowance of SCSB, July 1,2006 | - | - | - | 754 | - | |||||||||||||||
Charge-offs: | ||||||||||||||||||||
Residential real estate | (474 | ) | (239 | ) | (173 | ) | (35 | ) | (83 | ) | ||||||||||
Commercial real estate | (411 | ) | (720 | ) | (44 | ) | (193 | ) | - | |||||||||||
Construction | (5,742 | ) | (780 | ) | - | (600 | ) | - | ||||||||||||
Commercial business | (2,122 | ) | (1,080 | ) | (207 | ) | (138 | ) | (194 | ) | ||||||||||
Home equity | (975 | ) | (491 | ) | (187 | ) | (26 | ) | (198 | ) | ||||||||||
Consumer | (661 | ) | (503 | ) | (190 | ) | (362 | ) | (64 | ) | ||||||||||
Total | (10,385 | ) | (3,813 | ) | (801 | ) | (1,354 | ) | (539 | ) | ||||||||||
Recoveries: | ||||||||||||||||||||
Residential real estate | 36 | 1 | 14 | - | - | |||||||||||||||
Commercial real estate | 14 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 7 | |||||||||||||||
Construction | - | 2 | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||
Commercial business | 52 | 7 | 92 | 26 | 34 | |||||||||||||||
Home equity | 4 | 4 | 2 | - | 3 | |||||||||||||||
Consumer | 112 | 100 | 50 | 37 | 142 | |||||||||||||||
Total | 218 | 118 | 167 | 72 | 186 | |||||||||||||||
Net loan charge-offs | (10,167 | ) | (3,695 | ) | (634 | ) | (1,282 | ) | (353 | ) | ||||||||||
Provision for loan losses | 15,925 | 6,857 | 1,296 | 262 | 1,750 | |||||||||||||||
Allowance for loan losses at end of year | $ | 15,236 | $ | 9,478 | $ | 6,316 | $ | 5,654 | $ | 5,920 | ||||||||||
Let's go back to the Sept 2010 quarter.
(Note: they've got about $1 million in state and municipal bonds with maturities of more than a year. Total is $4 million at fair value.)
Ok, so the last 9 months, they tossed in another $2.9 million and ended with an allowance of $12.7 million. Ok, so things look slightly better now.
Money market accounts are up, savings are up slightly, CDs are down. Total deposits are up this year.
Impaired loans are down from the end of 2009.
GOODWILL IMPAIRMENT
Note 5 in the 10-K explains the Goodwill impairment. June 2009, the stock traded below book value triggering an evaluation. They brought in a 3rd party to assist. The 10-K explains the process and they determined that the value of goodwill was $15.3 million below the carrying value.
One of Berkshire Hathaway's annual report discussions by Warren Buffett from long ago had a great discussion about goodwill which more or less turned into the current accounting rules. In the old days, companies would depreciate their goodwill, which often made no sense.
FDIC CHECK
"Your Community Bank" #28915 is about 5 times bigger than "Scott County State Bank" #10485.
Start out looking at the holding company #2356073. Let's compare CBIN with 13 banks with $500 million to $1 billion assets in Kentucky, same time period of Sept 2010.
CBIN has a higher cash to assets ratio.
More commercial real estate loans
Less farmland (not surprising)
More commercial and industrial loans
Slightly more home equity loans
Way less adjustable rate residential loans
Residential loans have longer duration
Other loans have longer duration
Much less Goodwill (not surprising after the writedown)
Higher net income vs assets
Higher total bank equity capital vs assets
Much higher unused commitments: revovers, commercial real estate, other.
No derivatives
0.95% of assets are 30-89 days overdue vs 0.61% for other banks, mostly due to construction loans (which the bank mentioned)
No assets are 90+ days overdue.
1.84% assets are in non-accrual (1.02% is construction) vs 2.15% for the other banks (1.05% is construction)
3.49% net interest income vs 3.28% for the other banks
0.47% provision vs 0.61%
0.75% non-interest income vs 0.91%
2.66% non-interest expense vs 2.96%
1.10% pre-tax net operating income vs 0.62%
0.98% net income vs 0.76%
0.89% net charge-offs vs 0.46%
4.97% yield on earning assets vs 5.18%
1.06% cost of funding earning assets vs 1.57%
3.91% net interest margin vs 3.61%
0.84% non-interest income vs 1.00%
2.98% non-interest expense vs 3.25%
0.99% ROA vs 0.76%
1.78% earnings coverage of net loan charge-offs vs 2.68%
62% efficiency vs 70%
$6.6 million in assets per employee vs $3.8
2.46% loss allowance /loans vs 1.81%
83% loss allowance /noncurrent loans vs 53%
9.98% equity capital to assets vs 9.45%
9.51% core capital ratio vs 8.41%
13.62% tier 1 risk-based capital ratio vs 12.33%
14.88% total risk-based capital ratio vs 13.59%
Now let me take a quick look at Scott County State Bank to see if there's any garbage hidden in these numbers.
Yep, 1.98% of assets are 30-89 days past due.
Only .68% of assets in non-accrual status.
Performance ratios look better.
I've been considering the macroeconomic forces at work in the world and their impact on CBIN. Obviously the housing market problems are the most obvious. I've been following one local housing market for about 2 years on both Zillow and MLS and what I've seen matches Zillow's overall price indicator. I recall that Louisville has traditionally been one of the lowest priced metro housing markets in the US.
Looking at Zillow, it looks like the Louisville residential housing market has been remarkably stable since 2006. Looking at the recent entries in the market, a large number of them look distressed. $19K, $24K, $15K, $6K. There's a rental-property house for sale at $6.4K that sold in 2006 for $10K. Jumping out to the suburbs, prices in Sellersburg have been stable.
OTHER STUFF
Looking for news articles...
fraud scheme uncovered where Eastern Livestock Company cycled fake checks through several banks and was based out of Your Community Bank. A different bank identified the fraud. Fifth Third Bank is seeking a judgement of $32.5 million plus $13 million against presumably Eastern Livestock.
Oh you bastards! Seeking Alpha briefly covered CBIN just about a week ago! And I mean that with the utmost respect.
Director Norman E Pfau Jr acquired 91,820 shares of this bank holding company, paying $8.52 per share for a total amount of $782,306.
This was an indirect purchase through Cake Holdings. Mr Pfau owns 80% of Cake Holdings. This Indiana based bank holding company for Your Community Bank and The Scott County State Bank reported earnings of $1.4 million or 42 cents in the third quarter, up 100% from Q3 2009. With a P/E of 5 and a Price/Book ratio of 0.6, this small bank holding company looks very attractively valued. The troubled asset ratio (TAR) for Scott County State Bank is 19.9 while the (TAR) for Your Community Bank is 24.40.River Ridge Development Authority amended an $8.5 million bond resolution to defer principal payments (oh jeez!), and part of that is through STIMULUS funding This allowed them to secure a loan from Your Community Bank, including a 45% rebate on the interest rate
This site claims that Your Community Bank and Scott County State Bank are "weak". It was posted back in August 2010.
Scott County State Bank Scottsburg IN $133,930 DI picked a bank that the FDIC closed down about a week ago (First Southern Bank, Batesville, AR #58052). Performance ratios look outstanding. Almost no accounts were past due.
Your Community Bank New Albany IN $691,320 D+
Well, that pretty much kills CBIN as an investment.
UPDATE Dec 28, 2010:
An email raises the point that the First Southern Bank that I looked at may have been an odd case. It seems they bought $22 million in fake bonds which wiped out their equity. I'll look at some other failed banks to try to get a sense of whether this is a severe outlier or not.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Harbin Electric (HRBN)
Wow, it's been a long time since I looked at this one. Currently trading at $17.62.
Latest 10-Q
Nevada Corporation, but operating in Harbin (ha1 er3 bin1) 哈尔滨, China.
Period ending Sept 30, 2010
31.2 million shares on Nov 5, 2010
Current assets are mostly AR, inventories, and cash.
Large goodwill and intangibles. Advance on non-current assets.
Solid balance sheet
31% gross margin
20% operating margin
16% net margin
Some gains from currency translation.
Earned 57 cents per share diluted for the q, share count has been increasing, issued massive amount of stock at $16 last year, pretty much doubled the equity.
Operating cash flow looks pretty good (last year looks a bit odd)
What's the story on the SG&A? Also the capital structure.
The big drop in net income is due to 1) a big interest expense, 2) loss on a currency hedge, 3) change in fair value of warrant.
They started paying taxes in 2008.
Issued a bunch of stock in 2008 for $14.13 per share and again in 2009 for $16. Share count has been fairly stable since.
A lot of this is tricky due to a minority interest in what looks like one of their subsidiaries.
Cash flow shows a gigantic "payment to original shareholders for acquisition" and the huge cash inflow from selling stock.
The stock is selling for over $17, so I don't see any reason to continue with this.
Latest 10-Q
Nevada Corporation, but operating in Harbin (ha1 er3 bin1) 哈尔滨, China.
Period ending Sept 30, 2010
31.2 million shares on Nov 5, 2010
Current assets are mostly AR, inventories, and cash.
Large goodwill and intangibles. Advance on non-current assets.
Solid balance sheet
31% gross margin
20% operating margin
16% net margin
Some gains from currency translation.
Earned 57 cents per share diluted for the q, share count has been increasing, issued massive amount of stock at $16 last year, pretty much doubled the equity.
Operating cash flow looks pretty good (last year looks a bit odd)
Big capex
Acquired Xi'an Tech Full Simo Motor Co (est 1955, state-owned) in Oct 2009. They've got a bunch of subsidiaries in China, 1.5 in 上海.
STOP ON PAGE 7
Let's back up to the 10-K:
Calendar 2009
Year ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||
2009(a)(b)(c) | 2008(b) | 2007(d) | 2006(e) | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
Revenue | $ | 223,234,394 | $ | 120,820,302 | $ | 65,402,864 | $ | 40,415,777 | $ | 23,643,664 | ||||||||||
Cost of revenue | (146,622,220 | ) | (73,343,521 | ) | (32,967,887 | ) | (20,754,282 | ) | (12,083,957 | ) | ||||||||||
Gross profit | 76,612,174 | 47,476,781 | 32,434,977 | 19,661,495 | 11,559,707 | |||||||||||||||
Selling, R&D general and administrative expenses | (20,764,873 | ) | (13,083,604 | ) | (8,723,685 | ) | (5,667,260 | ) | (1,595,443 | ) | ||||||||||
Income (loss) from operations | 55,847,301 | 34,393,177 | 23,711,292 | 13,994,235 | 9,964,264 | |||||||||||||||
Net Income attributable to controlling interest | $ | 19,646,781 | $ | 25,378,699 | $ | 16,902,684 | $ | 18,438,512 | $ | 10,000,158 | ||||||||||
Basic earnings per share attributable to controlling interest | $ | 0.77 | $ | 1.25 | $ | 0.99 | $ | 1.11 | $ | 0.67 | ||||||||||
Diluted earnings per share attributable to controlling interest | $ | 0.77 | $ | 1.19 | $ | 0.91 | $ | 1.01 | $ | 0.66 | ||||||||||
Dividends declared per share | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
Weighted average number of shares outstanding | ||||||||||||||||||||
Basic | 25,568,936 | 20,235,877 | 17,082,300 | 16,600,451 | 14,934,667 | |||||||||||||||
Diluted | 25,672,420 | 21,323,660 | 18,634,739 | 18,306,569 | 15,143,891 | |||||||||||||||
What's the story on the SG&A? Also the capital structure.
The big drop in net income is due to 1) a big interest expense, 2) loss on a currency hedge, 3) change in fair value of warrant.
They started paying taxes in 2008.
Issued a bunch of stock in 2008 for $14.13 per share and again in 2009 for $16. Share count has been fairly stable since.
A lot of this is tricky due to a minority interest in what looks like one of their subsidiaries.
Cash flow shows a gigantic "payment to original shareholders for acquisition" and the huge cash inflow from selling stock.
The stock is selling for over $17, so I don't see any reason to continue with this.
