Opinions
Peter Hodson
DHX Media
DHX.B-T
BUY
Jul 29, 2014
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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Produces and licenses children's content such as TV shows. Also licenses the properties to toymakers on different types of products. Got into a bit of a quandary where they were ramping up debt load and the earnings growth slowed down. The market punished the stock. Valuation is now getting to a level where it is a bit easier to digest. There are also activists entering the stock. The recent move by Disney, where they purchased some assets from Fox and were making a big statemen of the importance of owning content, is important. There may be potential buyers sniffing around a company like this, for the content. Still a higher risk, but he would be okay with a half position.
The CEO just stepped down. They were growing fast and adding debt to find it but then the growth fell off and they were left with the debt, so they started a strategic review and the CEO stepped down. This is not a great development. You should look elsewhere. He thinks they will have to sell the company now.
A great example of a management team that have spun out and done it all before. They are now picking out libraries like Teletubbies and forming timeless content for children. This is great, because there isn’t a language issue as it is very easy to dub these into other languages. The value of their library is probably higher than what people are giving them credit for. This is a 5 year timeframe, where they will build up their library and ultimately decide to sell it to big media enterprises. Good company and very well-managed.