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SID 0039 Mitel (MITL) - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth - January 18, 2019 20:42 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsMitel has was long relegated to obscurity within the institutional investment community. However, the discussion in this series of episodes will broadly portray what we find are Mitel’s underappreciated competitive strengths. In episode 39, we first lay out how Mitel came to be a major, if lit...
SID 0038 Realty Income Part II
Stocks-in-Depth - December 21, 2018 01:37 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsRealty Income has a diversified portfolio by sectors within the single parcel commercial property market. What are the risks of each sector, and how does management approach each?
SID 0037 Realty Income (O) - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth - November 21, 2018 23:40 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsRealty Income operates in a commoditized industry, the ownership of standalone real estate parcels used by certain commercial retail enterprises. In this podcast, we discuss how Realty Income structures its business to provide diversification and attempts to differentiate its offering.
SID 0036 Knowles (KN) Part III
Stocks-in-Depth - October 18, 2018 14:57 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsDemand for MEMS microphones increased greatly when Apple put four microphones into the iPhone7. What might further stimulate the worl's appetite for MEMS microphones? In this podcast, Stocks in Depth discusses potential for new technologies like the internet of things (think Alexa) and 5G netw...
SID 0035 Knowles - Part 2
Stocks-in-Depth - October 12, 2017 23:28 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsKnowles two most important businesses, MEMS microphones and hearing aid components, share a common theme of eroding market dominance. But, management has devoted a large percentage of revenue into R&D that might address new developments. In Part 2 of this podcast on Knowles, we discuss how Kno...
SID 0034 Knowles (KN) - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth - September 10, 2017 22:26 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsKnowles Corp. has suffered mightily since its spinoff from Dover Corp. in early 2014, mostly from the disastrous acquisition of Sound Solutions. MEMS penetration of smartphones, currently around 1.7 globally compared to 4 per iPhone, can continue to rise, since this statistic is nearer to one m...
SID 0033 Free Trade Doesn't Work - Part 4
Stocks-in-Depth - January 21, 2017 05:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsDonald Trump is about to be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. As far as we can tell, every other country in the world advances a self-serving industrial policy, to the detriment of the United States, which embraces free trade. In this final episode of Stocks-in-Depth’s re...
SID 0032 Free Trade Doesn't Work - Part 3
Stocks-in-Depth - January 14, 2017 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsInstitutional investment strategists follow economic and market data closely, and tend to weave together a narrative that explains the current trend. Presently the US dollar is rising, like it has two times before in the last few decades. In this podcast, we sample the perspective of Brown Bro...
SID 0031 Free Trade Doesn't Work - Part 2
Stocks-in-Depth - January 07, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe historical record shows that countries that rise to economic greatness did so through a strong industrial policy, which incorporates tariffs and non-trade barriers. Moreover, at their apex these powers tended to adopt free trade, some vainly thinking that in doing so they might change the w...
SID 0030 Free Trade Doesn't Work - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth - January 01, 2017 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsHistory is replete with unanticipated events: Pearl Harbor, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the 2008 credit meltdown, and now the improbable ascendance of Donald Trump to America’s highest office. Yet there are many who previse change, but whose ideas are so unorthodox that they are never s...
SID 0029 Generac (GNRC) Part 4
Stocks-in-Depth - December 25, 2016 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhen we first examined the home standby generator market, we were struck by what seems to be a unanimity of opinion that tremendous secular growth would be driven by homeowners increasingly discovering the benefits of having an automated system to supply electric power in times of outages. It’s...
SID 0028 Generac (GNRC) Part 3
Stocks-in-Depth - December 13, 2016 20:31 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsGenerac astutely commandeered the clear leadership position in home standby generators during the late 1990s and after the start of the millennium. In so doing, it developed an expertise in engines optimized for burning natural gas or propane, such as its 2-cylinder OVHI 1,000 cc displacement e...
SID 0027 Generac - Part 2
Stocks-in-Depth - November 07, 2016 17:42 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsFor at least a decade, Generac's strategy has been to leverage off of its clear leadership in the home standby generator market to establish market share in portable generators, power washers, and commercial & industrial standby electricity generation markets. How successful has it been? How pro...
SID 0026 Generac - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth - October 04, 2016 16:51 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsGenerac has seen its sales and earnings decline for over two years. Four powerful storms swept across the U.S. in the 2011-2012 period, but ever since then electric power outages have been well below normal. In Part 1 of our discussion of Generac, we'll cover what businesses this company runs,...
SID 0025 Central Garden & Pet - Part 3
Stocks-in-Depth - July 02, 2016 13:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsCentral Garden & Pet contains numerous distinct businesses within its two namesake segments. In part 3 of this podcast, we spend nearly two hours breaking down the pieces within these segments, and provide granularity so you can appreciate how various rivals compete in each niche. Along the wa...
SID 0024 Central Garden & Pet (CENT) - Part 2
Stocks-in-Depth - June 02, 2016 15:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn Part 2 of the Central Garden & Pet podcast, we continue to review the operations of the company beginning with portions of the Pet segment, mainly Aquatics, Flea & Tick products, calming products, equine, and the professional and special ingredients businesses. We discuss the Garden segment,...
SID 0023 Central Garden & Pet - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth - May 29, 2016 20:24 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn Part 1 of this three-part podcast, we start by presenting some background on Central Garden & Pet, and we discuss management changes over the last few years that have affected the company’s strategy. We draw comparisons in our analysis to other consumer product firms, and discuss management’...
SID 0022 Columbia Sportswear (COLM)
Stocks-in-Depth - April 06, 2016 17:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this podcast, we examine what has caused growth in outerwear, sportswear, and footwear to accelerate since the 2008 credit crisis for key players such as Columbia, North Face, and other brands. These leading firms have harnessed the opportunity to use outlet stores and e-commerce to redefin...
SID 0021 Power Integrations (POWI) - Part 2
Stocks-in-Depth - March 19, 2016 01:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn Part 1 of our podcast of analysis of Power Integrations' stock, we laid out how we saw it fitting in to stock market trends we've seen in 2016, which have been changing from the pattern followed since the credit crisis of 2008-2009. This company has suffered from stagnant sales and compresse...
SID 0020 Power Integrations - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth - March 12, 2016 22:17 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe last major milestone for Power Integrations was its release of LinkSwitch2 in late 2008 to early 2009. LinkSwitch, by our estimate, is the company's leading product family. However, management stopped reporting sales by product about five years ago. In this stock research podcast, GARP di...
SID 0019 RealPage (RP)
Stocks-in-Depth - March 05, 2016 02:21 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsHow much organic growth is really occurring at RealPage? Is the apartment rental market going to become swamped by capacity? How profitable is RealPage really, considering that it discusses its results with institutional holders in non-GAAP terms? What does it look like using more conventiona...
SID 0018 Vocera Communications (VCRA)
Stocks-in-Depth - February 27, 2016 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsVocera Communications is dearly valued relative to its present level of sales and red ink has been flowing for several years. However, 2015 has been a transformational year. Sales have started to grow and the losses are attenuating. A few years back it was largely dependent upon communication...
SID 0017 Taser International - Part 2
Stocks-in-Depth - February 20, 2016 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsShares of Taser International (TASR) retreated dramatically ever since the riots in Ferguson, MO dominated the headlines in early 2015, about one year ago. Is the decline because of fundamental factors such as Motorola's decision to enter the body cam and evidence management business, or is it ...
SID 0016: Taser International - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth - February 13, 2016 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn part 1 of our discussion of Taser International stock, we explore how there are two segments. Its conductive electronic weapons (CEWs) enjoy extraordinarily high profitability with mid-30's operating margins fully burdened, and competition barely exists. The other segment is Axon, which con...
SID 0015 Entellus Medical: Part 2
Stocks-in-Depth - February 06, 2016 01:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn part 2 of this stock research podcast discussing Entellus Medical, we explore the rough an tumble world of how rivals in the medical device industry can vary from raising a hundred million dollars for companies that wind up having minimal revenues and fail, to the foibles of industry giants s...
SID 0014 Entellus Medical
Stocks-in-Depth - January 30, 2016 04:54 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsEntellus Medical came public in January 2015 under the premise that it was the leader in office-based balloon sinus dilation, which was a small but increasingly preferred niche compares to FESS operations performed in hospitals. The investment research discussed in this podcast examines whether...
SID 0013 Plantronics
Stocks-in-Depth - January 22, 2016 01:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsInstitutional investors have heard the story that unified communications is under-penetrated, and that soon most businesses will want to buy Plantronics' headsets that incorporate software compatible with Microsoft's Skype for Business cloud-based platform for office workers. Why has penetratio...
SID 0012 Trimble Navigation - Part 2
Stocks-in-Depth - January 09, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThree players are preeminent in the field of precision navigation: Trimble, Hexagon, and Topcon. Is the competitive dynamic stabilizing? How are managements dealing with slower revenue growth, and does this mean that end markets are much more penetrated than before? How rapidly can adoption o...
SID 0011 Trimble Navigation - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth - December 26, 2015 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsTrimble Navigation's high-margin geospatial business and its precision navigation systems for farm use have slumped as the dollar has pressured commodities markets. But the company continues to grow in building information modeling (BIM) software and in mobile solutions for truckers and other f...
SID 0010 Cree, Inc. - Part 2
Stocks-in-Depth - December 19, 2015 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe described in Part 1 how Cree, Inc. ramped up its headcount in its LED fabrication operation during the major up-cycle that occurred from 2006 through 2010. Although fewer bodies have been added since then, there's "only" been a 10% reduction in corporate headcount since the all-time peak in ...
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