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Jordan Zinberg Data Communications Management DCM-T WEAK BUY Jan 15, 2025

Small player in packaging, did large acquisition last year. Growing quickly. Very cheap. If you need to own something in the space, look at this name.

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PARTIAL BUY
A printing company he has picked before. They've had a big restructuring away from print to marketing. Have made layoffs. They had a difficult time. The stock fell to 9 cents during the pandemic, but has rallied to $1. Government assistance in the pandemic have been a lifelong, offsetting staff costs. DCM benefits from, for examples, signs telling where people should walk in shops and places. The revenue drop of recent years has slowed. This turnaround has legs. Caveat: this is a small company, so keep your holding small.
HOLD
Still owns a sizeable position. They have turned the company around and he's been in touch with them. It's a traditional printing business that's transitioning into a marketing business model. Shares are cheap now, and shares can easily be $2-3 higher. The market is in a wait-and-see mode to see if they can reduce costs and raise profits. Quality managers who own a lot of shares, which is a plus. He continues to hold it. When the stock reaches fair value, he'll sell at least partially, because it isn't stable and predictability, which is a quality he now demands in a stock.
HOLD
ROIC is quite unpredictable. Struggling to transform itself from print to digital. New CEO seems to be doing a good job. Quite undervalued. He wouldn't put in new money at this time.
BUY
Trevor Rose’s Insights - Trevor’s most-liked answers from 5i Research.

In addition to the recent acquisition, which investors seem to love, the company came out with preliminary numbers for 2022. 
Sales rose 15%+, EBITDA rose 41%+ and more important debt declined 35%. 
The management team (33% ownership) has done a very good job improving profitability during a rough macro environment. 
This is still a management bet here. 
But they have made us lots of money on past ventures (when we could buy Canadian stocks) and we would still be OK investing with them, for very high risk investors (it is still a small company with lots of debt). 
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BUY ON WEAKNESS
Trevor Rose’s Insights - Trevor’s most-liked answers from 5i Research.

These results were mostly pre-released in February and our comments in the link still apply. 
Debt is going down, growth has accelerated and it is becoming highly profitable. 
It took a while, but the highly committed management team (which we like) is starting to put things together nicely here and the new acquisition should keep momentum going in the medium term.  
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DON'T BUY

Used to own shares, but has since sold.
Traditional print company - moving towards digital business model.
Very strong customer relationships.
High debt levels a concern. 

BUY

He bought it after their last deal, which doubled the size of their business. It will take six quarters before we see the company is like after that deal. meanwhile, margins will probably expand. New management team is fantastic. Long term will easily double or triple over 3-4 years.

PARTIAL BUY

It did a transformational acquisition of a large U.S. player a year ago and this doubled the size of the business. Going forward there could be some one time costs. It is a fantastic business which is well run. It is not in a high growth area but will be a dominant player going forward.

BUY

Owns shares in this business. Printing business that has been around for a long time. Did some M&A about 1 year ago that is going well. Business has doubled the past year. Printing business is not a growth industry - but digital asset management business growing. Good for a short term trade - not a long term hold.