DH CorporationDH.TOCOMMENTJun 04, 2014Stock price when the opinion was issued
He bought more when it fell because it was massively discounted. Also, management gave very poor guidance about what was happening to a lot of their businesses. Feels their core businesses really has good opportunities on the FinTech side, in the US specifically, and the stock can slowly go up. Pays a decent yield.
He bought more when it fell after earnings came out last quarter. Hopefully this quarter they get some of the business from the RFPs they put out previously. Over the next couple of quarters you will see some changes in the company. The dividend is reasonable and he was glad they cut it. There is opportunity for the stock to go up from here.
In December, he upgraded this to a sector outperform again. Private equity was approaching them to possibly pick apart part of the business. A very cheap FinTech play. He can understand why the stock cratered. Their US lending business will pick up, and he doesn’t think the Canadian business is declining as fast as we saw last quarter.
Getting into financial technology where they have software they provide to financial institutions. Had about 2000 clients in the US and then made a large US acquisition which gave them 5000 more. They plan to cross market and cross sell their product between their 7000 clients and they are doing quite well at it. Doesn’t own this because it is difficult to predict how well an acquisition is going to turn out.