Dean is a levered commodity processor sandwiched between fragmented but price-protected dairy producers and consolidated retailers, donating market share in a secularly declining market to undisciplined, subscale peers. Its stock trades for 16x management’s charitably adjusted EPS,[1] a full market multiple for a narrow-moat business. The environment in recent years beckons 2007-2010: 1) a period of rapidly […]
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scuttlebits [FOUR] Shift4
[scuttlebit] Shift4’s organic growth
Last week, a reader and Shift4 shareholder messaged me, raising questions about the company’s organic [...]
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Booz Allen and the business of defense – part 2
I left Part 1 with the observation that, starting in earnest around a decade ago, [...]
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Booz Allen and the business of defense – part 1
MBI and I recorded an episode of Never Sell recently (Serial Acquirer ROIC, Fiserv Debacle and Management Credibility, [...]
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[scuttlebits] Trex is getting cheap
TREX is down nearly 60% since I first profiled the company last August. You’d think [...]
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[scuttlebit] yet another Shift4 take
MBI and I recorded an episode of Never Sell recently (The Big Tech Capex Debate, Amazon Retail, Align’s [...]
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