DH CorporationDH.TOTOP PICKApr 07, 2015Stock 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.
This was the biggest cheque processing company in Canada for over 100 years. It was a declining legacy business, so they decided they were going to have to look further for other opportunities. In 2013, they acquired a company that was in the fin-tech space, and as a result, the multiple on the stock started increasing because it was back in growth mode. Recently announced an acquisition of Fundtech, which further bolts them into this space. Also, gives them geographical diversification and an entry point into Asia. It gets them into 8 of the 10 top US banks and 30 of the top global banks. Has gone up, but is still attractive on a multiple basis and is only trading at 11 or 12 times, where the US comps are trading at 15 or 18 times. Yield of 3.12%.