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Concordia International CorpCXR.TOTOP PICKMar 07, 2016Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Dec 01, 2018. Market Open.
It has lost the overwhelming majority of its value. It is burdened with leverage. It is important to step back and take a cold, clinical view of it. The market does not care what you paid for it. The prospects going forward don’t look very favourable for it. The subordinate debt went into default this week. The stock is more of a lottery ticket.
She wouldn’t be buying this now, even though the stock price has come down dramatically from what it was a few years ago. This has only been public for about 4-5 years, and they’ve been buying assets. There is a lot of pricing pressure on the drugs they bought and paid a lot for. Has a lot of debt on their balance sheet. Debt to Enterprise EBITDA is over 11X. There is a big question as to how they are going to repay the debt when it comes due. Based on what they have now, it doesn’t seem sufficient.
He loves turnaround stories with lots of debt. When you get them right, they really move. This one is not a turnaround yet. It has a lot of things that you look for, what it doesn’t have are signs of a turnaround. Wait until you see two quarters of deleveraging and improving margins. The stock will move from there. It still has bankruptcy risks.
He is pessimistic on this. They recently hired another set of advisors to advise them on capital structure. That usually doesn’t end well for equity holders. Just had so much debt. The big UK acquisition they made really went south on them in a hurry. Expects debt holders are either going to want a massive equity dilution or for some kind of bankruptcy and restructuring. The equity is probably close to worthless.
Concordia (CXR-T) or Valeant (VRX-T)? He wouldn’t pick either because whenever you have accounting irregularities, that never gets better, especially in Canada. This sector is under so much heat right now. The US president has really focused in on even legitimate drug companies and there is going to be a lot of scrutiny. doesn’t think either will survive.
This is trading on 4X earnings and less than its projected 2016 BV. Stocks are never that cheap unless they don’t have an issue. This does have an issue, too much debt. Management has been appearing at conferences explaining they have made progress in paying down debt. Jason thinks that over 2016, as they pay down debt each quarter, the stock will be able to go through a fairly significant re-rating. Institutions are going to have to take a look at this. A lot of money is going to come back into this name as the debt decreases. If they can pay down their debt, then somebody will buy them out.