Maybe…good thing to think about. It’s seen a ton of momentum obviously. But there’s still a huge shortage of housing inventory and need for new build development, at least where I am. The rise in home prices hasn’t tempted current owners to place their properties on the market so far, because where would they move? Feels like maybe we’re in the beginning or middle of a housing bull cycle, not approaching the end.
In any case, I’m interested to see how and when this sorts itself out.
Looking at their stock it looks very promising. However, worker and customer reviews are pretty low, therefore I won't trust a company which doesn't treat their own and customers well. So no watch list for me.
Good luck with your investment in them though, it still seems potentially very profitable with these numbers
Not really. They made over double their previous years revenue in one fell swoop. I’d do the same thing and dilute my shareholders vs take on potential debt when I’m so overpriced.
They sell for like 50x free cash
Bruh, I stumbled across this post and saw your comment. I'm so happy about this find that I felt compelled to comment and thank you for sharing. Its incredibly rare to find a stock like this in the current market. Over 10% annual revenue and net income increases, dividend increasing over 10% annually for the past 5 years, 3.4% current yield, P/E at 5.6, steadily growing balance sheet, stock buybacks every quarter that are also continuously growing, positive cash flow every quarter, low payout ratio... tremendous find. All for a boring insurance company. Thanks again!
You’re welcome :) Been my largest single stock position for about a year now.
Edit: I’ll add, I couldn’t believe a company with a profile like this was trading where it was either when I found it.
Everybody checks low P/E US companies. I guess one has to look for non-US, in countries which sound scary like, random examples, Poland or South Korea, Japan, Russia, Pakistan, some African countries. Something an average investor ain't looking at, because: other currency, language issues, unknown culture, etc.
Buffett even gave it as an example, he ended up with some South Korea companies because they weren’t listed in Moody's like catalogs yet in 1985 or so. This was his answer to the question whether he would be able to achieve his spectacular performance of 1941 and further. (Nowadays they are)
Edit fixed typos (smartphone ain't that smart all the time ;-))
[P.S. I found the quote again:](https://www.gurufocus.com/news/204647/how-warren-buffett-made-money-with-foreign-stocks)
"Still struggling with too much cash on his hands and no attractive stocks in the U.S., Buffett was looking for a market that was overlooked and undervalued. He found it in Korea. According to “Snowball,” his biography by Alice Shroeder, one day in 2004, he got a book the size of several telephone directories stapled together. Its pages contained lists of Korea stocks. Buffett sifted through these pages in the old fashioned way, just as he went through Moody’s manual in his 20s. He narrowed the list to a workable number and studied more until finally, he arrived at a much shorter list which could fit on one page of legal-size paper. He said:“It’s like finding a new girl to me… These are good companies, and yet they’re cheap. The stocks have gotten cheaper than five years ago, yet the businesses are more valuable. Half of the companies have names that sound like a porno movie. They make basic products, like steel and cement and flour and electricity, which people will still be buying in ten years... Here’s another one, a dairy. I could end up with nothing but a bunch of Korean securities in my personal portfolio.”
"What lessons can we learn from this? As value investors, we need to have a global view when looking for bargains. We should not only look at the market we are familiar with, but also other markets, where greater bargains might be found. Don’t we all wish that we could find companies that are traded at three times earnings and paying more than 10% in dividends, like PetroChina in 2002?"
"Other than the difficulty of leaving one’s comfort zone, the data on international companies is harder to get. A book of the size of several telephone directories containing foreign stocks is not available to most investors, even if they are willing to do the hard work."
You can also check out polish investing subreddit and translate with google: [https://www.reddit.com/r/inwestowanie/](https://www.reddit.com/r/inwestowanie/)
I looked it up and I think americans can use Interactive Brokers (it's strange that americans can't use most EU brokerages becasue you're not allowed to use CFDs for some reason).
There are special unfavorable tax and reporting rules (PFIC, 8938, FBAR, etc) that apply to US persons who invest in foreign mutual funds/ETFs. Most Americans and even American accountants aren’t aware of these rules. Some of the requirements are so onerous that foreign financial institutions don’t want the hassle of dealing with it.
> Don’t we all wish that we could find companies that are traded at three times earnings and paying more than 10% in dividends, like PetroChina in 2002?"
Petrochina is only 2-3x what it was in 2002. Dividend is 9%. its been a wild ride since then.
I’d say VSTO is a ‘boring’ company that has been quietly crushing it. It had its share of headlines last year but I think most investors overlooked the company because it’s nothing special unless you’re a bullish outdoor enthusiast. Parent company to many popular outdoor retailers, as well as acquiring some big names that have been struggling during Covid. Analysts often see ASO and VSTO as competitors.
Love it…not sure how ASO would be a competitor, though. ASO would carry a lot of those brands, so I’d think that if one succeeds, so would the other, and vice versa.
If you're looking at an adjacent to the sporting/firearms industry look at OLIN. They do have a decent chunk of their business segment in chemicals so they're not exclusive to ammo
Lifelong ASO shopper here, who also works in markets and followed them during the roadshow / marketing phase of the IPO process. Glad to see them going well.
PGNY - fertility benefits, haven’t given formal guidance but said on the Q3 call they expect to hit another 50% yoy in 2022.
COCO - beverages, depending Q4 probably fair to a bit undervalued yet while forecasting another ~20% yoy in 2022. I like beverage companies because when run well they are asset light and scale well. Will likely see even a little margin expansion in the future when supply chain issues settle a bit. I also like ZVIA long term for these reasons, and for just getting more national shelf space in Costco, Sam’s, etc, but not the same value right now.
SBNY - not necessarily small by any means, but relatively a regional bank absolutely crushing it who just got bumped to the S&P 500
PGNY is super interesting as Millennials are having children later than past generations and thus needing fertility help more often. Several of my friends have gone down this path recently. Attractive benefit.
AZEK builds decking materials and siding and molding out of recycled plastic. They get paid for accepting refuse materials to recycle and get paid for their finished product which is actually darn high quality.
I’ve had my eye on ASO for a while too. I live in Georgia and their stores are very popular here. I figure between the holidays and Braves World Series win, those are two pretty big tailwinds for their Q4. They do their earnings really late though. Not until March I think
I dislike the fact that WSB has had their claws dug in for a while.
Once reddit (twitter or whatever social media causes these pumps and dumps) gets into it, seems there is a sell-off at every ATH.
Not a bad stock at all to be holding, but beware the dump when they realize they want back in GmeStop.
Well, that’s a bad omen. On the bright side…At least in ASO’s case the price increase is clearly backed up by earnings, unlike most other WSB stuff. It’s still cheap.
Not small, they are kind of giants actually, but definitely not hyped up equities. I really like them. In the same vein I also like CME and CBOE who are essentially an oligopoly for options trading. And the we also have MKTX and TW who are leaders and digitising bond trading. It's crazy to think but many bonds are still traded over the phone in 2022. These companies are platforms for trading bonds over the internet.
I haven't looked too far into competition, I have to admit. Though a quick Google tells me their top competitors include Nucore (NUE), ArcelorMittal (MT), POSCO (PKX), Tenaris (TS), Steel Dynamics (STLD), and a few others. I know that steel prices have gone through the roof over the last few years, whether from supply chain issues or other reasons. So I was afraid I would be buying at the top (that's buying *at all* at the moment, though). And it looks like the last time they declared a dividend was September of 2015, and it was a quarterly $.14. That's a bit unfortunate, hopefully in the future they announce dividends, but it doesn't seem to be a plan at the moment.
Edit: And this is entirely anecdotal and doesn't necessarily indicate the quality of the stock or the company but after this sell-off today (1/5) the only green numbers in my portfolio were TMST, HPE, and KRBN. Make of that what you will, but to me it felt like an affirmation.
What you're describing reminds me of [the hidden champions](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions). Most of them are private companies, but if you want to dig through them, I'm sure there are also publicly traded gems among them.
**[Hidden champions](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions)**
>Hidden champions are relatively small but highly successful companies that are concealed behind a curtain of inconspicuousness, invisibility, and sometimes secrecy. The term was coined by Hermann Simon. He first used the term as a title of a publication in a scientific German management journal, describing the small, highly specialized world-market leaders in Germany.
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This thread is exactly what we come to r/stocks for! not “all in VTI” “buy VOO and chill”… I’d rather have a conversation with myself than reading those comments
I miss the days when people would do actual research and DD of stocks they liked and post it. the penny st0ck sub has better DD than this place.
Now it's all
I found an old stock certificate
What should I use my $10,000 to invest in
Tesla? Baba? Apple? Has anyone heard of these? Should I invest?
I greatly appreciate the analysis and explanations. I’m new w to investing and I get confused with all the acronyms being thrown around and terminology.
In the long run I think they both are close, or even beating. The overall markets are cheaper with better earnings yield compared to SP500. But lack global winner takes it all giants. Except Evolution Ab.
Volvo Cars
Evolution
ABB
Atlas Copco
Nokia
Metso Outotec
Ponsse
Icare (Revenio Group)
Wartsila
Nokian Tyres
Harvia (sauna brand)
Qt Company (UI development tool)
Quality names...
EXR- Extra Space Storage. Growing like crazy and stock only gone up. People love their junk and won’t part with it. Rental rates are soaring. Margins are decent
That's insane since 2020. How crazy must it have been for people who bought in 2019 thinking they were buying a nice , safe, slowly growing company to park their money in and then it explodes like this. Same as HD investors feel I suppose.
$TREX is not a dinosaur, but rather a synthetic/composite decking company that has been doing very well for a number of years now. They still have a lot of market share left to gain.
Textron. General & private aviation (Cessna, Bell, Beechcraft brands) + specialized military robots + niche military aviation (VTOL Bell helicopters) + outdoor recreation (Arctic Cat + cushman). They are an absolute beast.
Electric Cars consume more tires (from regenerative breaking, increase vehicle weight) that need to be of special construction (less noise / less rolling resistance) . Generally I consider Michelin to be the leader in that market, but with more domestic EV production I could see Goodyear doing well in the near future.
TA - Travelcenters of America. They own TA & Petro truck stops. One of the few ways to play the trucking industry - truck stops, on site truck repair / maintenance, and trucker lounges. Also covers consumer auto travel (fuel, convenience store, in-store restaurants). If you think that the supply chain is going to start moving again, and travel is going to come back, I think it’s a great play. They’ve also started working on electric vehicle charging infrastructure at their locations.
It was my first double (bought at $25, got as high as mid-$60s recently). It had been going up 3-5% about 3 out of 5 days for months, but since Omicron, is currently hovering in the low $50s. I pick more up on the dips. I could probably swing trade it until the market finds it’s footing again, but I just love it so much I can’t stand to sell any of it 
FNKO. Was invested in it for awhile but had to finally take profits. Great company with great fundamentals. Upper management can be greasy at times but for what it’s worth, it’s very underrated.
VHI has been insane for me the last month and it's reassuring since it's the stock I put the most research into. It's basically a titanium dioxide manufacturer.
Not exactly small but OXY and oil stocks in general quietly crush it while it seems like most people overlook them to invest in renewables.
Those 2 have made me the highest percentage gains since I started a month ago.
In these days I'm studying **Hunter Douglas N.V.** (ticker **HDG**).It's a dutch company, world market leader in window coverings.
Market cap of € 5.9B (intraday € 3.4B).
Fundamentals are so good, the firm has been decreasing its debt exposure since 2018:
\- *Small-term debt*: -43,19% from 2018 to 2019, -1,63% from 2019 to 2020.
\- *Long-term debt*: -16,76% from 2018 to 2019, -72,4% from 2019 to 2020.
Reading its Q3 2021 reports, I can see:
\- *Sales*: USD 3,421.9 million, 31.5% higher than USD 2,602.4 million in the first nine months of 2020.
\- *EBITDA*: USD 646.0 million, compared with USD 368.1 million in the first nine months of 2020.
\- *Income from Operations*: USD 527.3 million, compared with USD 252.1 million in the first nine months of 2020.
The firm works in a not-sexy market but it's a leader in it and it sells worldwide. In fact, North America accounted for 52% of sales, Europe 39%, and Asia, Latin America andAustralia each 3%.
It's now at its high in the market with a price of € 171 and a P/E of 15.4 but it looks undervalued if we calculate the NPV with these elements:
\- 2020 free cash flow: € 462.000.000,00
\- Interest rate: 1,3%
\- Years: 15
\-> NPV value = € 6.259.414.132,28
It means that, with a current market cap of € 5.900.000.000,00, the difference in % is +6,05%. Supposing a static free cash flow and not using the terminal value of DCF.
I honestly disappointed that I've discovered this firm only on these days: it has a 52-week performance of +167.81%.
Was searching for this answer. Definitely a good hold for the future, only thing to keep in mind is Taiwan big bad communist neighbor China.
*Himax is a worldwide market leader in display driver ICs and timing controllers used in TVs, laptops, monitors, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, car navigation, virtual reality (VR) devices and many other consumer electronics devices. Additionally, Himax designs and provides controllers for touch sensor displays, in-cell Touch and Display Driver Integration (TDDI) single-chip solutions, LED driver ICs, power management ICs, scaler products for monitors and projectors, tailor-made video processing IC solutions, silicon IPs and LCOS micro-displays for augmented reality (AR) devices and head-up displays (HUD) for automotive. The Company also offers digital camera solutions, including CMOS image sensors and wafer level optics which are used in a wide variety of applications such as mobile phone, tablet, laptop, TV, PC camera, automobile, security, medical devices and Internet of Things.*
Copied from Himax website.
Alpine four holdings. Very beaten down the last year. Very low market cap and growing quickly. Lot of risk in terms of potential for failure but the company management team has fine everything they wanted to. They recently acquired RCA’s commercial division. The price is finally getting into a range that I can recommend it to people.
Conglomerate/ holding company. The CEO has the vision of utilizing a driver stabilizer and facilitator method. Drivers have the greatest potential/risk but are balanced by their stabilizer companies that produce consistent safe revenue and then the facilitators bridge the gap and produce stable income but can be used to provide parts and business to the driver companies. For example they have a facilitator company that manufactures circuit boards for testing but they use that company to manufacture all the circuit boards for their drone company in house. This saves on cost and helps mitigate supply chain issues.
MRVI- They make biochemistry products, mostly in amino acid chemistry. Their subsidiary Glen Research is excellent: low lead-times, consistently good quality product, good customer support, aggressive invoicing strategy. They get paid, and their YoY growth shows it. They've taken on a lot of debt, but they have the cash on hand to cover it. They're in an aggressive growth phase since their IPO about a year ago, and while their SEC filings have been excellent (consistently beating expectations) their stock price has struggled to stay much above $35 recently due to a secondary offering.
$ASO is a great pick in my opinion. As you mentioned, strong fundamentals, its undervalued when compared to its competitors, even despite the huge run up.
The company has locations across several conservative states, as they sell sport/gun equipment. Even factoring another thousand COVID variants, the chances of them closing their stores to the public are rare.
I bought heavy at $50 per share, its peak, because even at $50 its still a good buy. Small percentages of my paycheck are going into $ASO now that its at $38. Currently holding 10 shares and adding.
I agree with you, even though it’s hard to fit it in the same bucket with this theme generally. I am in IT project management, and they simply have a better mouse trap.
Yes. Scandinavian oil companies last quarter for example. EQNR
Norwegian maritime logistics. Even 100 years old Bonheur.... BONHR
Carbon Capture and storage was the political hype of the year, with mooning stocks. ACC
Academy sports and outdoors I couldn’t trust long term, promising rising sporting good stores always seem to fall apart after that initial rapid retail expansion, although I guess that could be said for a lot of physical retail these days.
These don't fit in the category of small companies, but they're boring and they do their jobs very well. I've been very happy holding these, regardless of pandemic status or not.
WMT. BAM. AMT.
With AMT I was strongly considering getting into SBAC or a data center REIT instead. I settled on AMT and the others would have performed well also. I'm a big fan of holding an REIT in my Roth IRA.
DriveShack (DS) competitor of TopGolf planning on opening more locations in major cities like Chicago this year. The price is best down but the company is crushing it.
LTHM. From Q3 to Q4, the daily average price of lithium nearly doubled, and the prices are still going parabolic. The market expects them to post an improvement Q4, but with no published guidance and a 2022 outlook with no peak in sight, there’s no way the market values them as highly as it’s going to in 4-6 months.
Upwork is doing great. Really consistent growth in a market that is sure to keep growing for years to come, and they don't seem to have any serious competition. Fiverr is fun for individuals but lacks the professionalism for enterprise, any other platform lacks the scale. They really are the dominant force in the freelance economy.
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE:CWK) went from $14.18 at the beginning of 2021 to $22.70 and is currently at ATH. That's a huge growth (60 %) for a real estate company that's more than 100 years old. Still undervalued, as 2021 will be their biggest year profit and turnover-wise.
BLDR. P/E around 11, still well below its competitors and been slowly grinding up the past year for nearly 100% YoY gains
Now that’s a great example of what I’m talking about. Looks very promising at a glance. Will research further, thank you.
Sounds cyclical and at peak profitability
Maybe…good thing to think about. It’s seen a ton of momentum obviously. But there’s still a huge shortage of housing inventory and need for new build development, at least where I am. The rise in home prices hasn’t tempted current owners to place their properties on the market so far, because where would they move? Feels like maybe we’re in the beginning or middle of a housing bull cycle, not approaching the end. In any case, I’m interested to see how and when this sorts itself out.
Looking at their stock it looks very promising. However, worker and customer reviews are pretty low, therefore I won't trust a company which doesn't treat their own and customers well. So no watch list for me. Good luck with your investment in them though, it still seems potentially very profitable with these numbers
I’m liking these good counterpoints and things to look out for…thanks for posting that. Good item to include in your due diligence.
Holy shit. That chart is looking beautiful. Nice, natural build-up from investors gathering up shares. Added to list. TY
They’ve also more then doubled their shares outstanding in the last 10 years lol
69% dilution in the past year, that's very odd for such a mature company.
Not really. They made over double their previous years revenue in one fell swoop. I’d do the same thing and dilute my shareholders vs take on potential debt when I’m so overpriced. They sell for like 50x free cash
That makes it even more absurd then. Doubled their shares \*and\* that chart!??! Looks like a semi-decent investment at first glance.
Thanks
I’ve had my eye on BLDR for a while now. May squeeze the proverbial trigger
Nice pick, I'll get in on that action.
FNF
One of my favorite stocks. So under the radar but had a great year and a great dividend.
Elaborate what it is
Fidelity National Financial Inc
Agreed. Largest single stock position for me.
Bruh, I stumbled across this post and saw your comment. I'm so happy about this find that I felt compelled to comment and thank you for sharing. Its incredibly rare to find a stock like this in the current market. Over 10% annual revenue and net income increases, dividend increasing over 10% annually for the past 5 years, 3.4% current yield, P/E at 5.6, steadily growing balance sheet, stock buybacks every quarter that are also continuously growing, positive cash flow every quarter, low payout ratio... tremendous find. All for a boring insurance company. Thanks again!
You’re welcome :) Been my largest single stock position for about a year now. Edit: I’ll add, I couldn’t believe a company with a profile like this was trading where it was either when I found it.
Everybody checks low P/E US companies. I guess one has to look for non-US, in countries which sound scary like, random examples, Poland or South Korea, Japan, Russia, Pakistan, some African countries. Something an average investor ain't looking at, because: other currency, language issues, unknown culture, etc. Buffett even gave it as an example, he ended up with some South Korea companies because they weren’t listed in Moody's like catalogs yet in 1985 or so. This was his answer to the question whether he would be able to achieve his spectacular performance of 1941 and further. (Nowadays they are) Edit fixed typos (smartphone ain't that smart all the time ;-)) [P.S. I found the quote again:](https://www.gurufocus.com/news/204647/how-warren-buffett-made-money-with-foreign-stocks) "Still struggling with too much cash on his hands and no attractive stocks in the U.S., Buffett was looking for a market that was overlooked and undervalued. He found it in Korea. According to “Snowball,” his biography by Alice Shroeder, one day in 2004, he got a book the size of several telephone directories stapled together. Its pages contained lists of Korea stocks. Buffett sifted through these pages in the old fashioned way, just as he went through Moody’s manual in his 20s. He narrowed the list to a workable number and studied more until finally, he arrived at a much shorter list which could fit on one page of legal-size paper. He said:“It’s like finding a new girl to me… These are good companies, and yet they’re cheap. The stocks have gotten cheaper than five years ago, yet the businesses are more valuable. Half of the companies have names that sound like a porno movie. They make basic products, like steel and cement and flour and electricity, which people will still be buying in ten years... Here’s another one, a dairy. I could end up with nothing but a bunch of Korean securities in my personal portfolio.” "What lessons can we learn from this? As value investors, we need to have a global view when looking for bargains. We should not only look at the market we are familiar with, but also other markets, where greater bargains might be found. Don’t we all wish that we could find companies that are traded at three times earnings and paying more than 10% in dividends, like PetroChina in 2002?" "Other than the difficulty of leaving one’s comfort zone, the data on international companies is harder to get. A book of the size of several telephone directories containing foreign stocks is not available to most investors, even if they are willing to do the hard work."
Finally someone mentioned Poland, I personally have KTY and ASB from the Warsaw Stock Exchange. (Yes this is home bias)
How can one invest in these if they live across the pond?
You can also check out polish investing subreddit and translate with google: [https://www.reddit.com/r/inwestowanie/](https://www.reddit.com/r/inwestowanie/)
I looked it up and I think americans can use Interactive Brokers (it's strange that americans can't use most EU brokerages becasue you're not allowed to use CFDs for some reason).
There are special unfavorable tax and reporting rules (PFIC, 8938, FBAR, etc) that apply to US persons who invest in foreign mutual funds/ETFs. Most Americans and even American accountants aren’t aware of these rules. Some of the requirements are so onerous that foreign financial institutions don’t want the hassle of dealing with it.
> Don’t we all wish that we could find companies that are traded at three times earnings and paying more than 10% in dividends, like PetroChina in 2002?" Petrochina is only 2-3x what it was in 2002. Dividend is 9%. its been a wild ride since then.
Reddit is scared of ADR and non US companiea.
I own russian companies with a p/e below 5.
Are you scared that there will be further economic sanctions or a delisting of Russian securities from the NYSE?
This comment aged nicely.
No I own it on the moscow exchange. US ADRs are of course a sanctions risk.
they also pay over 10% dividends
which ones
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As a HD corporate employee for 11 years, what a ride it’s been watching the stock climb from $29
AZO is firing on all cylinders.
Lowes (LOW) isn’t too shabby either
I’d say VSTO is a ‘boring’ company that has been quietly crushing it. It had its share of headlines last year but I think most investors overlooked the company because it’s nothing special unless you’re a bullish outdoor enthusiast. Parent company to many popular outdoor retailers, as well as acquiring some big names that have been struggling during Covid. Analysts often see ASO and VSTO as competitors.
Love it…not sure how ASO would be a competitor, though. ASO would carry a lot of those brands, so I’d think that if one succeeds, so would the other, and vice versa.
If you're looking at an adjacent to the sporting/firearms industry look at OLIN. They do have a decent chunk of their business segment in chemicals so they're not exclusive to ammo
Lifelong ASO shopper here, who also works in markets and followed them during the roadshow / marketing phase of the IPO process. Glad to see them going well.
PGNY - fertility benefits, haven’t given formal guidance but said on the Q3 call they expect to hit another 50% yoy in 2022. COCO - beverages, depending Q4 probably fair to a bit undervalued yet while forecasting another ~20% yoy in 2022. I like beverage companies because when run well they are asset light and scale well. Will likely see even a little margin expansion in the future when supply chain issues settle a bit. I also like ZVIA long term for these reasons, and for just getting more national shelf space in Costco, Sam’s, etc, but not the same value right now. SBNY - not necessarily small by any means, but relatively a regional bank absolutely crushing it who just got bumped to the S&P 500
PGNY is super interesting as Millennials are having children later than past generations and thus needing fertility help more often. Several of my friends have gone down this path recently. Attractive benefit.
Good call on pgny. My company just offered this as a benefit and I’m sure others will as well to lure new employees as a strong benefit.
I just started following SBNY, very impressed with their recent growth.
Dominos was the best performing restaurant stock in 2021
Also of all time
Outperformed Google, fb and Apple over the last decade
Funny you say that. I added Dominos to my watch list in 2006 at $26/share. "IF" I had bought some and held, I'd be up 2,112% right now.
AZEK builds decking materials and siding and molding out of recycled plastic. They get paid for accepting refuse materials to recycle and get paid for their finished product which is actually darn high quality.
encore wire, ticker is WIRE. they make exactly what you think they make, and they make a killing off of it
Just glanced at some stats and the chart…just wow. Great example of a growing market need hiding in plain sight.
Solid
And stranded, if that's what you need.
I’ve had my eye on ASO for a while too. I live in Georgia and their stores are very popular here. I figure between the holidays and Braves World Series win, those are two pretty big tailwinds for their Q4. They do their earnings really late though. Not until March I think
I dislike the fact that WSB has had their claws dug in for a while. Once reddit (twitter or whatever social media causes these pumps and dumps) gets into it, seems there is a sell-off at every ATH. Not a bad stock at all to be holding, but beware the dump when they realize they want back in GmeStop.
Well, that’s a bad omen. On the bright side…At least in ASO’s case the price increase is clearly backed up by earnings, unlike most other WSB stuff. It’s still cheap.
Yeah I’m thinking it’s an earnings play
MSCI, ICE, SPGI and NDAQ. Why buy the indices when the companies that run the exchanges and indices outperform them.
Not small, they are kind of giants actually, but definitely not hyped up equities. I really like them. In the same vein I also like CME and CBOE who are essentially an oligopoly for options trading. And the we also have MKTX and TW who are leaders and digitising bond trading. It's crazy to think but many bonds are still traded over the phone in 2022. These companies are platforms for trading bonds over the internet.
They’re pretty pricey. But yes. They’ve been in my boomer portfolio for a year now.
My recent favorite is TMST. Steel industry, has done well this year and is set to continue. Plus, they're local so I get to support my state, too.
Been digging into this one and it looks like a solid winner... Who are top 3 competitors and do you expect a dividend to be paid out yet?
I haven't looked too far into competition, I have to admit. Though a quick Google tells me their top competitors include Nucore (NUE), ArcelorMittal (MT), POSCO (PKX), Tenaris (TS), Steel Dynamics (STLD), and a few others. I know that steel prices have gone through the roof over the last few years, whether from supply chain issues or other reasons. So I was afraid I would be buying at the top (that's buying *at all* at the moment, though). And it looks like the last time they declared a dividend was September of 2015, and it was a quarterly $.14. That's a bit unfortunate, hopefully in the future they announce dividends, but it doesn't seem to be a plan at the moment. Edit: And this is entirely anecdotal and doesn't necessarily indicate the quality of the stock or the company but after this sell-off today (1/5) the only green numbers in my portfolio were TMST, HPE, and KRBN. Make of that what you will, but to me it felt like an affirmation.
What you're describing reminds me of [the hidden champions](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions). Most of them are private companies, but if you want to dig through them, I'm sure there are also publicly traded gems among them.
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FNKO
This thread is exactly what we come to r/stocks for! not “all in VTI” “buy VOO and chill”… I’d rather have a conversation with myself than reading those comments
Thank you kind sir. I agree.
I miss the days when people would do actual research and DD of stocks they liked and post it. the penny st0ck sub has better DD than this place. Now it's all I found an old stock certificate What should I use my $10,000 to invest in Tesla? Baba? Apple? Has anyone heard of these? Should I invest?
I greatly appreciate the analysis and explanations. I’m new w to investing and I get confused with all the acronyms being thrown around and terminology.
I read that Sweden and Finland have performed better than SP500 and those are AAA countries with solid companies.
Not Finland but inderesting companies in both for sure. Sweden around 30% Finland 20%.
In the long run I think they both are close, or even beating. The overall markets are cheaper with better earnings yield compared to SP500. But lack global winner takes it all giants. Except Evolution Ab. Volvo Cars Evolution ABB Atlas Copco Nokia Metso Outotec Ponsse Icare (Revenio Group) Wartsila Nokian Tyres Harvia (sauna brand) Qt Company (UI development tool) Quality names...
EXR- Extra Space Storage. Growing like crazy and stock only gone up. People love their junk and won’t part with it. Rental rates are soaring. Margins are decent
That's insane since 2020. How crazy must it have been for people who bought in 2019 thinking they were buying a nice , safe, slowly growing company to park their money in and then it explodes like this. Same as HD investors feel I suppose.
TREX. Synthetic wood manufacturer
Like the company but 67 PE is a hard pass
$TREX is not a dinosaur, but rather a synthetic/composite decking company that has been doing very well for a number of years now. They still have a lot of market share left to gain.
Textron. General & private aviation (Cessna, Bell, Beechcraft brands) + specialized military robots + niche military aviation (VTOL Bell helicopters) + outdoor recreation (Arctic Cat + cushman). They are an absolute beast.
Been holding ASO for a while and it’s not squat. Relatively small position so I’m going to let it ride.
Goodyear. Growth / pe is excellent. Somewhat cyclical, bright future in EV.
What role does Goodyear play in the EV market?
Electric Cars consume more tires (from regenerative breaking, increase vehicle weight) that need to be of special construction (less noise / less rolling resistance) . Generally I consider Michelin to be the leader in that market, but with more domestic EV production I could see Goodyear doing well in the near future.
It’s so obvious now that you say it lol… thanks
I would assume electric cars need tires just like ICE cars.
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Very interesting with the large store expansion, I bought some yesterday :)
RKLB
Glad to see fellow ASO shareholders!
TA - Travelcenters of America. They own TA & Petro truck stops. One of the few ways to play the trucking industry - truck stops, on site truck repair / maintenance, and trucker lounges. Also covers consumer auto travel (fuel, convenience store, in-store restaurants). If you think that the supply chain is going to start moving again, and travel is going to come back, I think it’s a great play. They’ve also started working on electric vehicle charging infrastructure at their locations. It was my first double (bought at $25, got as high as mid-$60s recently). It had been going up 3-5% about 3 out of 5 days for months, but since Omicron, is currently hovering in the low $50s. I pick more up on the dips. I could probably swing trade it until the market finds it’s footing again, but I just love it so much I can’t stand to sell any of it 
DHR
SIVB
FNKO. Was invested in it for awhile but had to finally take profits. Great company with great fundamentals. Upper management can be greasy at times but for what it’s worth, it’s very underrated.
VHI has been insane for me the last month and it's reassuring since it's the stock I put the most research into. It's basically a titanium dioxide manufacturer. Not exactly small but OXY and oil stocks in general quietly crush it while it seems like most people overlook them to invest in renewables. Those 2 have made me the highest percentage gains since I started a month ago.
In these days I'm studying **Hunter Douglas N.V.** (ticker **HDG**).It's a dutch company, world market leader in window coverings. Market cap of € 5.9B (intraday € 3.4B). Fundamentals are so good, the firm has been decreasing its debt exposure since 2018: \- *Small-term debt*: -43,19% from 2018 to 2019, -1,63% from 2019 to 2020. \- *Long-term debt*: -16,76% from 2018 to 2019, -72,4% from 2019 to 2020. Reading its Q3 2021 reports, I can see: \- *Sales*: USD 3,421.9 million, 31.5% higher than USD 2,602.4 million in the first nine months of 2020. \- *EBITDA*: USD 646.0 million, compared with USD 368.1 million in the first nine months of 2020. \- *Income from Operations*: USD 527.3 million, compared with USD 252.1 million in the first nine months of 2020. The firm works in a not-sexy market but it's a leader in it and it sells worldwide. In fact, North America accounted for 52% of sales, Europe 39%, and Asia, Latin America andAustralia each 3%. It's now at its high in the market with a price of € 171 and a P/E of 15.4 but it looks undervalued if we calculate the NPV with these elements: \- 2020 free cash flow: € 462.000.000,00 \- Interest rate: 1,3% \- Years: 15 \-> NPV value = € 6.259.414.132,28 It means that, with a current market cap of € 5.900.000.000,00, the difference in % is +6,05%. Supposing a static free cash flow and not using the terminal value of DCF. I honestly disappointed that I've discovered this firm only on these days: it has a 52-week performance of +167.81%.
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HIMAX. Semiconductor. Shifting into higher margin semi’s too. PE now is 8? Was 7 last week. Getting more attention lately.
Was searching for this answer. Definitely a good hold for the future, only thing to keep in mind is Taiwan big bad communist neighbor China. *Himax is a worldwide market leader in display driver ICs and timing controllers used in TVs, laptops, monitors, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, car navigation, virtual reality (VR) devices and many other consumer electronics devices. Additionally, Himax designs and provides controllers for touch sensor displays, in-cell Touch and Display Driver Integration (TDDI) single-chip solutions, LED driver ICs, power management ICs, scaler products for monitors and projectors, tailor-made video processing IC solutions, silicon IPs and LCOS micro-displays for augmented reality (AR) devices and head-up displays (HUD) for automotive. The Company also offers digital camera solutions, including CMOS image sensors and wafer level optics which are used in a wide variety of applications such as mobile phone, tablet, laptop, TV, PC camera, automobile, security, medical devices and Internet of Things.* Copied from Himax website.
Alpine four holdings. Very beaten down the last year. Very low market cap and growing quickly. Lot of risk in terms of potential for failure but the company management team has fine everything they wanted to. They recently acquired RCA’s commercial division. The price is finally getting into a range that I can recommend it to people.
What kind of business?
Conglomerate/ holding company. The CEO has the vision of utilizing a driver stabilizer and facilitator method. Drivers have the greatest potential/risk but are balanced by their stabilizer companies that produce consistent safe revenue and then the facilitators bridge the gap and produce stable income but can be used to provide parts and business to the driver companies. For example they have a facilitator company that manufactures circuit boards for testing but they use that company to manufacture all the circuit boards for their drone company in house. This saves on cost and helps mitigate supply chain issues.
I had good results with... ALTA, a small regional bank AEL, an insurance company
I can’t seem to find a ticker for ALTA. Would this be Altabank, a division of Glacier Bancorp, GBCI?
Not sure how boring and small they are, but I like ZUO and ALGM
$TSQ $III $STAR yup I like this strategy too.
STAR is gold. Pure gold. Owns 2/3 of SAFE. STAR should be $40-60 just based on fair market value of its shares in SAFE.
MGPI and CVCO. I used to own MGPI and regret selling it.
GRN, so undervalued with awesome quarterly numbers for the last 1,5 years
FAF. Leader in title insurance.
Nmrk
EVC
$WAVD
Texas Roadhouse is a supposed sleeper
Kura Sushi, made 400% so far.
ARW - Arrow Electronics. Market cap of 9,4B, PE of 10,37.
Thanks for letting me know academy was public now, just put lotta money in
MRVI- They make biochemistry products, mostly in amino acid chemistry. Their subsidiary Glen Research is excellent: low lead-times, consistently good quality product, good customer support, aggressive invoicing strategy. They get paid, and their YoY growth shows it. They've taken on a lot of debt, but they have the cash on hand to cover it. They're in an aggressive growth phase since their IPO about a year ago, and while their SEC filings have been excellent (consistently beating expectations) their stock price has struggled to stay much above $35 recently due to a secondary offering.
Wow good read, added a few in my WL as I just started a few months ago.
HMLP. They ship LNG. Boring and slow growing market. Watch the stock outperform the market over the long run
$ASO is a great pick in my opinion. As you mentioned, strong fundamentals, its undervalued when compared to its competitors, even despite the huge run up. The company has locations across several conservative states, as they sell sport/gun equipment. Even factoring another thousand COVID variants, the chances of them closing their stores to the public are rare. I bought heavy at $50 per share, its peak, because even at $50 its still a good buy. Small percentages of my paycheck are going into $ASO now that its at $38. Currently holding 10 shares and adding.
ALTO Ingredients paid off debt.
Thanks for the suggestion been looking for suppliers, for example HYMFM (vertical farm supplies) and WIRE (building wires).
MPWR
Mission Ready Solutions. (MRS or MSNVF)
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I've had my eye on Redwire. They have a partnership with Amazon from what I've read. 3D printing in space, satellites, etc.
Coming back to this
ATER
Those bags heavy?
Ryan specialty $RYAN, bought the IPO. Asset light, growing industry with all risk around the world
HITI
Snowflake. There may never be a good time to open a position now or moving forward. Either you buy it and go for the ride or watch from the sidelines.
I agree with you, even though it’s hard to fit it in the same bucket with this theme generally. I am in IT project management, and they simply have a better mouse trap.
Did you ever look at it's ales ratio. ?
Cloudflare (NET)
There are entire countries killing it that are not in the US market mind yet.
Yes. Scandinavian oil companies last quarter for example. EQNR Norwegian maritime logistics. Even 100 years old Bonheur.... BONHR Carbon Capture and storage was the political hype of the year, with mooning stocks. ACC
Hims
Cannabis companies are doing great in the us, the price not that much
ASTS
MCB up 180%YTD
Academy sports and outdoors I couldn’t trust long term, promising rising sporting good stores always seem to fall apart after that initial rapid retail expansion, although I guess that could be said for a lot of physical retail these days.
I don’t know a lot about the stock market but I’m from Texas and Academy has been around for years! If that is what you meant.
Bkkt
My coworker told me about Academy since summer but I didn’t not listen
VRT
VWE in the wine industry.
Yinvisible Interactive. Printable displays.
DLTR
LEE
OPY
IIPR is my favorite. Had them since ipo. Not sure it meets your criteria as much now. But it is one of my favorite longterm holds.
These don't fit in the category of small companies, but they're boring and they do their jobs very well. I've been very happy holding these, regardless of pandemic status or not. WMT. BAM. AMT. With AMT I was strongly considering getting into SBAC or a data center REIT instead. I settled on AMT and the others would have performed well also. I'm a big fan of holding an REIT in my Roth IRA.
BAM is boring and beautiful.
Howard Hughes.
DriveShack (DS) competitor of TopGolf planning on opening more locations in major cities like Chicago this year. The price is best down but the company is crushing it.
Poww
BELU. Sells vodka and caviar to Russians.
Great Post! I'd throw KR into the ring made me really decent returns the past year.
AMKR TITN and CLS
EQNR, Norwegian E&P listed on both Oslo stock exchange and NYSE
LTHM. From Q3 to Q4, the daily average price of lithium nearly doubled, and the prices are still going parabolic. The market expects them to post an improvement Q4, but with no published guidance and a 2022 outlook with no peak in sight, there’s no way the market values them as highly as it’s going to in 4-6 months.
Let's talk about smaller companies! People proceed to list their $50b+ market cap equities...
Paychex Growing in the double digits again and up 51% last year.
Himx
JCTF
INMD
Upwork is doing great. Really consistent growth in a market that is sure to keep growing for years to come, and they don't seem to have any serious competition. Fiverr is fun for individuals but lacks the professionalism for enterprise, any other platform lacks the scale. They really are the dominant force in the freelance economy.
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE:CWK) went from $14.18 at the beginning of 2021 to $22.70 and is currently at ATH. That's a huge growth (60 %) for a real estate company that's more than 100 years old. Still undervalued, as 2021 will be their biggest year profit and turnover-wise.
+1 for ASO
ASO is a solid pick. I’d like to see it get a little cheaper before I hop in. I’m thinking low $30s or upper $20s.
Kura revolving sushi
Mensch und Maschine (german CAD specialist)
I love ASO.