Warren Buffett has said that even today, he could earn 50% or more a year if he had less money.
As strange as it may seem, having more than $110 billion of cash to invest at Berkshire Hathaway is actually a disadvantage to Buffett. With so much cash, he has to take big bets on large companies, and just can’t access the market’s best small-cap opportunities.
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However, while Buffett has outgrown small caps, there are plenty of other highly experienced investors out there who are still able to hunt for small-cap value.
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Hidden Value Stocks is a quarterly publication which profiles two hedge funds in each issue. Each of the hedge funds has a value slant and seeks to invest along similar lines as Buffett did when he set up his partnership.
One of the funds we profiled in the March 2019 issue was Chris Colvin’s Breach Inlet Capital Management. The value-focused firm picked Recro Pharma, Inc. as one of its focus stocks for the magazine.
At the time of publication, the stock was trading at $6 (March 31, 2019) and today it is trading at $19.80 for a total gain of 64% in just three months. That’s an annualized return of 623%!
Here’s what Chris Colvin had to say at the time of the interview:
The M&A market seems to agree that CDMOs (contract development and manufacturing organization) are high-quality assets with attractive fundamentals. In the past two years, five CDMOs were purchased for an average of ~16.5x EBITDA. Recro guided to its CDMO generating $34 million of EBITDA this year. At 16.5x EBITDA, its CDMO would be worth $550 million+ or $22+ per share. For conservatism, we assume Recro’s CDMO is worth only 12x implying a value of $400 million+ or $16 per share. This means Recro’s share price could have 75%+ upside before considering our IVM (intravenous meloxicam) “call option”.
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