Jeremy Deal presented his in-depth investment thesis on ALJ Regional Holdings (OTC: ALJJ) at Best Ideas 2016.
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ALJ Regional Holdings is an obscure micro-cap permanent capital vehicle with excessive NOLs, controlled by investment banker Jess Ravich. ALJJ is a holding company focused on industry-agnostic buyouts of orphaned corporate divestitures that generate 30+% cash-on-cash IRRs. A successful string of recent buyouts, combined with tax-shielding NOLs, has grown EBITDA from zero to $40 million in just over two years. Despite the stock being up 500% in three years and 2,600% since current management took over, ALJ’s equity remains attractive at ~4x EBITDA, ~16% FCF yield, and 1.6x book value (FY16E) considering the growth trajectory and structural runway to become a much larger company. ALJ is our pick for three reasons: (i) the price does not reflect the large acquisition of Phoenix Color announced in August 2015; (ii) the remaining $155 million in NOLs creates rapid debt paydown that the market is missing, which causes book value to compound at 30+% annually; and (iii) the recently announced up-listing to a major exchange should create more liquidity and multiple expansion.
About the instructor:
Jeremy Deal founded JDP Capital Management LLC, a San Diego-based hedge fund manager, in 2011. The firm is a Registered Investment Advisor that manages a private limited partnership focused on deep value, distressed, and special situations within public companies. The investment strategy seeks risk-adjusted, unleveraged outperformance though a private equity-like fundamental research process on each portfolio company.
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