Opinions
Bruce Campbell (2)
Patient Home Monitoring
PHM-X
HOLD
Oct 12, 2017
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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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.
It was the ‘go-go’ stock a few years ago and now the one everyone hates. He gets a lot of calls. A lot of people are frustrated as they go through restructuring. They feel they are very close to getting approval to spin the company off into two. He focuses on pure numbers. They are fantastic. They grew their business to make up for the healthcare benefits cuts previously. The principles there now have a lot of stock that they bought at higher prices. They are growing organically. People need to be patient during the restructuring.