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Just announced they will be splitting into 2 companies. Made a fair number of missteps over the past 1-3 years. Bought a respiratory type of company, integrated it, and then decided to spin it out. He is not sure why they went this route. It was already a small company to begin with, and now you have 2 companies below $100 million market cap. Usually you want a company above that level, because that’s when fund managers can buy the stock and analysts start to cover it. Doesn't feel there was a big "value add" for splitting these 2 out. Wait for a quarter or 2 to see what the results look like. He is not a big fan of either company.
This was making a number of acquisitions. One of the biggest was Sleep Management. About a year ago they announced they were going to spin the business off into 2 different segments, one company being Sleep Management, and the other would be the rest of their companies. Viamed will be the old Sleep Management and the rest will be under Apparo Home Care. Sleep Management appears to be growing the fastest with about 20% annual growth. This is trading at a fairly cheap multiple of their cash flow and earnings.
This had a dramatic move up of over 40% today, but he didn’t see any news on why. Looking at their underlying business, what they have and where the stock is, are really disconnected right now. The company still has strong cash flow. The last quarter they didn’t have any earnings, but thinks that was a temporary thing for the one quarter. Suspects they will move back into being earnings positive/cash flow positive. There will also probably be a ramp up in their revenue, which will translate into stronger cash flow and earnings going forward.