Time to buy. By no means is this a great company or one with any durable competitive advantage; but it is cheap.
Had some time today, so went looking for some bargains.
FWD balance sheet
equity value 214 million, includes
goodwill 61 million and intangibles 6 million
=> NTA is approximately 147 million
market capitalisation 84 million
now I want to be even more conservative so I value all their inventories to 0 (45 million worth)
=> revised value NTA - inventories, is 102 million
approximate margin of safety is about 18%
I am happy with that.
This is no perfect valuation (but is there such a thing?), but for a company like this with no long term debt it is just fine.
Now the proviso is that management keeps capital expenditures under control AND do not make any ridiculous acquisitions!
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| Open | High | Low | Value | Volume |
| $1.55 | $1.55 | $1.53 | $38.72K | 25.24K |
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| 1 | 588 | $1.53 |
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| $1.56 | 344 | 1 |
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