Opinions
Bruce Campbell (2)
DHX Media
DHX.B-T
COMMENT
Dec 10, 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.
Recently acquired Nerds out of Vancouver, which just builds their library up that much more. Every day he looks at this and feels it is expensive, but they’ve done such a great job of growing their revenue over the last number of years. He thinks that is going to continue going forward. He would like to get it on a pullback, but has never been able to. Netflix (NFLX-Q) has just announced they want to globally launch their service, which means that they have to go to a company like this to get their rights for all of those countries. With all the video-on-demand services that cable companies are launching, they also have to go here to get licensing.