Fully depreciated equipment in the Building Products industry
Industrials
Among the 19 companies analysed by BTN, those with the biggest risk of overstated earnings from using fully depreciated equipment or unusually long depreciation lives compared to the industry include Allegion, A.O. Smith, Insteel Industries, Trane Technologies and Masco. Meanwhile, they see Simpson Manufacturing, Advanced Drainage Systems, AAON, Trex and Builders FirstSource as being positioned to start seeing lower depreciation expense and capital spending. These companies are already years into modernisation and expanding their equipment bases. Their depreciation has risen and been a headwind to earnings of late, but they may be about to see this level off and put them in a position of rising margins and FCF.
Edition: 202
- 10 January, 2025
European & US short ideas
Since Vision pitched their short thesis on Vidrala, Verallia and O-I Glass at our Equity Shorting Conference in mid-Mar the stocks have underperformed the Stoxx600 by ~8%. In the last couple of months they have also initiated 3 new European shorts, 3 new US shorts, and has readied a new $7bn+ European short (trades ~$20m/day and has short interest of <1%) for initiation next week. Please join Vision for a meeting while members of their team are in Paris (Jun 5th-6th), Zurich (Jun 7th) and London (Jun 8th-12th).
In the last 24 months, Vision has closed several shorts including: Allegro, AutoStore, Boohoo, Burlington, Colruyt, De'Longhi, Electrolux, Gerresheimer, H&M, Hargreaves Lansdown, Inditex, New Relic, Nokian Tyres, Peloton, Similarweb, Thule, Trex, TSMC, UiPath and Whirlpool.
Edition: 161
- 26 May, 2023
A new $3bn+ M/Cap European industrial short
Industrials
Trades >$10m/day and has <1% short interest - will be lapping price increases at a time when volumes have turned negative and there are substitution threats and declining per capita usage of products at some of its largest customers. It trades >10x EV/EBITDA on 2023 estimates that call for 40% growth in EBITDA.
In the last 24 months, Vision has closed several shorts including: Allegro, Boohoo, Colruyt, H&M, Inditex, New Relic, Nokian Tyres, Peloton, Similarweb, Thule, Trex, TSMC and UiPath.
Edition: 154
- 17 February, 2023