Single Stock Spotlight #13: Entravision (EVC)
Entravision’s Smadex ad-tech unit grew Q2 revenue 230% year over year, underpinning a re-rating thesis despite its legacy Spanish-language…
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Single Stock Spotlight #12: X Marks the Spot
Xerox is pitched as a cash-generating managed-decline value play, with debt, activist interest and short interest setting up a potential…
Apocalypse Now or Generational Buying Opportunity?
ServiceNow, SAP and Veeva are framed as AI-resistant SaaS bargains after a sector selloff, with ServiceNow positioned to gain from AI-agent…
Thoughts on PayPal Buyout Offer
PayPal faces a $60.50-per-share buyout offer from Stripe and Advent, with a rejection or counteroffer above $80 viewed as more likely.
Single Stock Spotlight #11: Pitney Bowes (PBI)
Pitney Bowes has returned 60% in 2026 after divestitures, cost cuts, debt repayment and buybacks; its strategic review includes selling…
Single Stock Spotlight #10: Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK)
Mammoth Energy Services rose above $3 after trading below net cash, aided by divestments, first-quarter adjusted EBITDA profitability and a…
Note on Fiserv CEO Change & Huntsman/Olin Merger
Fiserv fell nearly 10% after CEO Mike Lyons left for Truist, while Olin's stock-funded 0.5476-share offer values Huntsman below its prior…
Single Stock Spotlight #9: Fiserv (FISV)
Fiserv trades below 7 times 2026 earnings after a 60% decline, as new management resets guidance and seeks to stabilize its banking…
Single Stock Spotlight #8: Hallador Energy (HNRG)
Hallador Energy’s 1 GW Merom coal plant recasts HNRG from a thermal coal miner into an Indiana independent power producer positioned for…
April Earnings Update
Crocs raised 2026 EPS guidance to $13.20-$13.75 and bought back $73.6 million of stock, while Huntsman, Pitney Bowes and Alpha…
Buyout Update for Hidden Rock Capital Names
RE/MAX’s $13.80-per-share Real Brokerage offer is capped at $80 million cash, implying roughly $11.40 of value at REAX’s $2.02 share price.
Single Stock Spotlight #7: XPEL, Inc. (XPEL)
XPEL's paint-protection-film sales accelerated to 13% growth in 2025 as inventory resets eased, with margin recovery targeted after…
Single Stock Spotlight #6: Huntsman (HUN)
Huntsman’s $800-$900 million mid-cycle EBITDA and 8-10x historical EV/EBITDA imply $30-$40 per share, versus roughly $13, after a chemicals…
Single Stock Spotlight #5: Core Natural Resources (CNR)
Core Natural Resources (CNR) trades at 6 times normalized free cash flow, with export thermal coal exposure positioned for LNG disruption…
Single Stock Spotlight #4: Global Payments (GPN)
Global Payments trades below 6 times adjusted earnings and about 7 times free cash flow amid Worldpay, competition and debt concerns.
Single Stock Spotlight #3: Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR)
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has retired more than 30% of its shares since 2022; higher structural metallurgical-coal costs could support…
