I believe that IECE is setup for a triple over the next year. I'm estimating pre-tax EPS in fiscal 2009 will be in the $0.45 ballpark with after tax earnings of $0.30. That makes them quite undervalued at present prices. IECE is a specialty electronic circuit board manufacturer.
Here is some more DD: 1. Excellent Earnings Growth - IECE has been growing revenue and earnings for the past several years. In fiscal 2008 they more than tripled pre-tax earnings. In Q1 of fiscal 2009 their earnings grew 26.7% YOY to $0.06/share. 2. Guiding for Growth to Continue in Fiscal 2009 - They are guiding for increased revenue of 70M in fiscal 2009 and improved earnings. That is a 37% increase from fiscal 2008 If margins remain constant from Q4 I estimate pre-tax EPS for fiscal 2009 of $0.37. However, I think they will improve margins as they just started with integration of Val-U-Tech and have guided for lower costs. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35165639 Integration efforts with Val-U-Tech are expected to be completed by the end of 2009. Given that I would swag that pre-tax diluted EPS for fiscal 2009 will be $0.45 and after tax diluted EPS of $0.30. Additionally a recent investor presentation indicates that they are laying the ground work for $100M in revenue in the near future and they expect the core business to grow 15+% per year. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=31881662 3. Car Count Indicates Excellent Results - A yahoo poster tracks the Saturday car count and has indicated record levels. Here is a recent example: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35076382 4. Big Backlog - Backlog at September 30th was $40.5M which is roughly 80% of sales in 2008! http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=33546029 5. Strong Book Value - IECE has a book value of $1.78/share. As of 01/30/09 it was trading for less than book value. 6. Empire Zone - IECE has applied for an Empire Zone. If they are granted this empire zone which is likely they will increase their margins due to the tax credits. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=31763344 7. Insider Buying - Over 7K shares were purchased in December plus over 27K shares in September by the President of Val-U-Tech. Those are very significant purchases for a company of this size. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=31936765 8. Additional Acquisition - Per a recent investor presentation they are looking for additional acquisitions. 9. Nasdaq Listing - IECE was previously on Nasdaq. Per a recent investor presentation and filing they are focusing on getting re-listed which I presume would be on Nasdaq. They plan on using a R/S to move the share price above listing requirements.
STVI is a hot, rapidly growing company that has a great opportunity to be a multi-bagger. They are in the recession proof business of online dating web sites including applications on Facebook and MySpace.
Here are some reasons why I think they will be a multi-bagger: 1. Growth - STVI has been rapidly growing revenue and earnings and I expect that to continue. In Q3 revenue grew 63% and net income grew 183% with EPS of $0.036/share. Growth has developed from building social networking web sites. I expect them to continue to add more web sites as well as to improve their advertising rates thus further increasing revenue. For Q4 they have guided for revenue in excess of $1.08M which is a 24% sequential increase. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=34932566 2. Growing Market - Online dating websites is a rapidly growing area. Also, STVI has a concentration in MySpace and Facebook which are also attractive growing spaces. 3. Gross Margin - While they don't report the cost of goods sold, one can see from Q2 to Q3 that 89% of the incremental revenue went to net income. Therefore additional revenue growth will go rapidly to the bottom line. 4. Excellent Cashflow - They have cashflow from operations of $747K for the first nine months including $275K for Q3. 5. Strong Balance Sheet - STVI has a book value of $0.125/share including cash of over $1M. Additionally they only have $45K in debt. That is extremely good for such a small growing company. 6. Hiring - STVI is looking to hire additional programers which typically is a sign of future revenue growth. http://www.snap-interactive.com/jobs.htm 7. Small Float and Strong Insider Ownership - The CEO Clifford Lerner owns 7M of the 10.7M shares outstanding.
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