PM and writer of Undervalued and undercovered. https://xitter.cf/t.co/Z8gNyWJt5M

Joined November 2019
Last company incorporated to Meridion: Constellation Oil Services $COSH $COSH.OL
$COSH 3.5x 2027 EV/EBITDA against Seadrill 4.6x, Transocean 7.0x, Noble 7.2x. Cheapest in the group. Guidance is sandbagged. H1 EBITDA was 223.6m against 350 to 385m for the full year, so H2 only needs 72m a quarter after doing 126m in Q2. Clean run rate is about 105m. That puts the year near 435m, 13% above the top of guidance and 10% above consensus. Q3 consensus is still 81m. 2026 distributions just went from 100m to 140m, around 11% of the market cap, and likely to increase into 2027. The market behind it is tightening. UDW utilisation is already above 90% and the leading edge for 7th generation drillships has moved from the mid 400ks to around 500k a day. Nobody has ordered a newbuild in a decade because current rates still do not pay for one, and the Transocean and Valaris merger puts the last six cold stacked 7th gen drillships inside a single company that would rather distribute cash than reactivate them. COSH has 95% coverage for 2026 and 76% for 2027, so almost nothing re-prices until 2028, into that market. Why is it cheap? Forced sellers. The restructuring turned creditors into shareholders, and more than a fifth of the company has traded in blocks since the uplisting. Oslo listed, thin liquidity. Full deep dive on Undervalued and Undercovered.
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$COSH 3.5x 2027 EV/EBITDA against Seadrill 4.6x, Transocean 7.0x, Noble 7.2x. Cheapest in the group. Guidance is sandbagged. H1 EBITDA was 223.6m against 350 to 385m for the full year, so H2 only needs 72m a quarter after doing 126m in Q2. Clean run rate is about 105m. That puts the year near 435m, 13% above the top of guidance and 10% above consensus. Q3 consensus is still 81m. 2026 distributions just went from 100m to 140m, around 11% of the market cap, and likely to increase into 2027. The market behind it is tightening. UDW utilisation is already above 90% and the leading edge for 7th generation drillships has moved from the mid 400ks to around 500k a day. Nobody has ordered a newbuild in a decade because current rates still do not pay for one, and the Transocean and Valaris merger puts the last six cold stacked 7th gen drillships inside a single company that would rather distribute cash than reactivate them. COSH has 95% coverage for 2026 and 76% for 2027, so almost nothing re-prices until 2028, into that market. Why is it cheap? Forced sellers. The restructuring turned creditors into shareholders, and more than a fifth of the company has traded in blocks since the uplisting. Oslo listed, thin liquidity. Full deep dive on Undervalued and Undercovered.
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$E.TO reports Q3 soon. Some math on where it could print. The gas rig count points to 12% growth year on year in their end market, which I take as the baseline. From management conversations, Q3 should also show the full effect of new clients ramping up spending that we did not see in Q2, and Q2 was already a very strong quarter. So I am betting on 12% to low 20s revenue growth, depending on client adoption and on when the new engines arrive and get put to work. Debt will rise as they keep buying equipment to supply the Canadian LNG build out. They reinvest at over 20% returns on capital, so I am happy to see them lever up. Q4 should be stronger again. Wide range of outcomes for this company, but the macro tailwind should sustain mid teens growth for a long time, and in the short term faster than that as they come off a low base.
$E.TO Enterprise Group is the best way to bet on the LNG super cycle — and today we got another substantial catalyst with LNG Canada Phase 2 approved. This locks in a multi-year uptrend in drilling activity across Western Canada, directly expanding the market Enterprise Group services. On top of that, their gas turbines solution keeps taking share as operators switch to the more efficient and cheaper alternative. Net-net: HSD EV/EBITDA for a business that can reinvest every dollar it generates at +20% ROIC, while diversifying into long-term installations. The story isn't reflected in the price. I don't think the recovery from 2025 lows is even reflected yet. I've been covering the stock for long and in Undervalued and Undercovered we have done 4 management calls over the last 5 quarters.
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$PLBY is running another voting contest, and this time it is on their own platform. The first one was Q4 last year and I believe it did around 500k of revenue, with a platform that had plenty of problems. The Honey Birdette one should show about 1.2m, but it ran on a third party platform so the margin is probably lower. I do not think any of it is in analyst estimates. Running this one in house means they can guide for another quarter of high margin contest revenue, and it runs to 31 December so all of it lands in Q4. If it works, analysts can start to believe the company can do four to six of these a year at mid single digit millions. On top of that you get hundreds of thousands of emails they can sell into from the rest of the business. Something positive to point at on the Q3 call, on top of what should be a beat on both lines. Here is the link if you want to take a look, maybe you even want to enter. haha playboy.com/read/great-playm…
Might regret saying this right before earnings, but the setup for $PLBY looks very good. Why? Let me explain. The street is at 5.0m of Q3 Adj EBITDA. I get 7.1m on 33.4m of revenue. About 40% above consensus and up 75% year on year. Q3 is the first quarter the media work actually prints: paid voting contests where Playboy gets paid to collect emails, voters pushed into a new subscription, plus the seasonal step up in licensing. Coverage is thin and the published numbers look stale to me. That is usually where the gap between estimate and print comes from. Honey Birdette has done seven straight quarters of double digit store comps, Q2 revenue up 18%, and June was the best month in its history. At 8 to 13x EBITDA that is 56 to 137m against a market cap of about 120m. If the US flagship rollout and the online growth work, that becomes 140 to 270m over two to three years. So a good part of what you are paying is covered by the lingerie business, and the licensing arm comes at roughly 6x earnings that are mostly already contracted. Byborg, a strategic, paid 1.50 a share in October 2024, before the turnaround was proven and when the company barely made any Adj EBITDA. This year should clear about 30m. The stock is 1.03. Debt has gone from 218m to 145m, and they are buying back nearly 15% of the shares from Fortress at 1.05. To be clear, this is a multiyear thesis rather than an earnings trade. But expectations going in are low enough that the short term entry does not look bad either. I have done a lot of work on this name. Full write-up and the detail behind the Q3 numbers linked in the comments. It is a large position for me and in Pequity U&U Global Opportunities FIL.
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At 19, I went from a Substack to a fund. Here’s our first quarterly letter. PEQUITY U&U Global Opportunities, FIL crossed €2.3M only a few months after we started investing. Thank you to everyone who trusted us this early. No traditional background, no connections. Just years of writing research in public until someone decided to back me. No fancy title. No shortcuts. Just the work.
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GMS $GMS.L Implied day rates are approaching a 10-year high🫣 Assuming historical cash conversion, we're generating +$50m/y FCF at steady state now, and +$90m/y three years out. Market cap ~$300m. p/fcf ~6x As deleveraging continues, we'll see a transfer of value from debt to equity holders. ✅
Gulf Marine $GMS.L signed two new 3-year contracts today, increasing the backlog to 250% of market cap. Looks like a steal here at +35% FCF yield and maiden dividend coming up Q2-2026. Similar dynamics as $RIG $VAL $BORR, but less geared to the capex cycle and more so to opex.
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Hugo is right. The alpha is usually in figuring out how governance will improve.
If I read one more pitch about a Korean net net I will go crazy. I do not care even a bit about the business, that is not where the alpha is in that market. There are so many cheap Korean names that I could post an article a day on net nets, or on growing companies at very low valuations there. That is the point. A cheap Korean company is not necessarily an opportunity when there are that many of them. The variant view you need in Korea is whether the Value Up program works, whether governance actually improves, whether activism can succeed in the country. Write about that if you like that market. Everyone knows it is cheap. What you should be telling me is why you think differently from a market that is pricing the whole country that way.
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I'll start with mine: Dovalue $DOV.MI Everything about the story looks bad today, and it trades at 3x the free cash flow of its own worst case plan for 2029. NPL formations are at the bottom of the cycle and the market treats the loan book as a melting ice cube. The credit market prices its debt as the safest in the sector, while the equity gets priced like one of the distressed names. Two years out you have the deleveraging, a buyback already running, and rising credit stress in Europe feeding it new volumes instead of hurting it.
What is your best idea under 500 million market cap where everything looks ugly right now, and in two years it will look completely different?
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What is your best idea under 500 million market cap where everything looks ugly right now, and in two years it will look completely different?
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If I read one more pitch about a Korean net net I will go crazy. I do not care even a bit about the business, that is not where the alpha is in that market. There are so many cheap Korean names that I could post an article a day on net nets, or on growing companies at very low valuations there. That is the point. A cheap Korean company is not necessarily an opportunity when there are that many of them. The variant view you need in Korea is whether the Value Up program works, whether governance actually improves, whether activism can succeed in the country. Write about that if you like that market. Everyone knows it is cheap. What you should be telling me is why you think differently from a market that is pricing the whole country that way.
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doValue has started its share buyback. 3.5% of the shares are being bought back and another 9% are short. Between the two that is almost 40% of the free float, so anything happening could make this pop nicely. If Q3 is decent and gives a good read into Q4 collections, it could get interesting. If it is not, Q4 should imply another buyback as long as we stay at these prices. The market is asleep at the wheel here, and analysts are far off on the long term picture for this name.
DOV.MI doValue: an antifragile business at 3x 2029 free cash flow, on a worst case plan. It is like buying a copper miner at the bottom of the cycle, valued on trough cash flow, while nobody prices what happens when the cycle turns. I went through every slide and every analyst question from the Capital Markets Day. What the plan assumes: Three more years at the bottom of the credit cycle A legacy book that is never refilled 2026 guidance trimmed, but still sitting above the most bearish analyst What is already working: The cost programme is effectively reinvestment at around a 50% annual return, by taking out overstaffing coeo, the digital collections arm, guided to around 30% EBITDA growth a year and already beating What is excluded, on the record: Re-tenders Tax arrears Any turn in the credit cycle Greek re-performing loan sales are barely in there And it is genuinely anticyclical. Credit concerns in Europe are picking up, which for most of your book is a problem. Here it is the demand driver. More bad loans means more work to service, so the business gets stronger exactly as credit gets worse. Catalysts: coeo portfolio sale by year end, FY26 numbers, a possible rating upgrade, buybacks. Full review in undervalued and undercovered, link in comments
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$GMS.L reported a monster Q3 2026 and the market is asleep.9M EBITDA $81.5M vs FY guidance 105-115M → implies beat on upper end. Q3 annualized = $150M → +30% growth vs FY26 upper end into 2027. Trading at ~2.5-3x FY27E EBITDA. Peers 5-8x. $GMS.L Q3 2026 was a decisive step-change from H1. Q3 standalone revenue $67.7M (+32% YoY, +61% vs H1 avg quarter), EBITDA $37.7M (+23% YoY, +72% vs H1 avg quarter), day rates ~$42.4k (+12% YoY, +13% vs H1 avg), utilization back to ~90% (vs 75% in H1 crippled by Gulf war disruption), net debt reduced $10M in Q3 despite integrating LatAm vessel financing. FY26 guidance (105-115M EBITDA) is a sandbag. 9M at $81.5M, Q4 implied 23-34M vs Q3’s $37.7M actual. If Q4 holds the Q3 run-rate, FY26 lands at ~$119M. Q3 annualized = $150M EBITDA into 2027 before LatAm full-year contribution, day rate progression, war revenue recovery, or backlog repricing. Realistic 2027E range 155-175M. Trading at ~2.5-3x FY27 base-case EBITDA. Backlog $616M (+35% YoY). Market cap £200M, EV ~£330M ($450M). Private market comp just emerged: WSJ reports ADNOC L&S in talks to acquire HEA Energy at $3B valuation, implying ~8.5x EV/EBITDA on a fully built-out normalized basis. Upside scenarios applying 8.5x HEA comp to GMS: $150M 2027E EBITDA (Q3 run-rate flat): £0.78 share price, +326% upside $165M 2027E EBITDA (base case): £0.88 share price, +378% upside $175M 2027E EBITDA (bull case): £0.95 share price, +414% upside Even at a conservative 6x multiple (vs HEA’s 8.5x), base case = £0.59 (+223%). Catalysts: FY26 beat, 2027 guidance, dividends or buybacks. I have covered the company in depth in Undervalued and Undercovered link in comments.
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Being able to sit and do nothing with your holdings is a real advantage. It lets you profit from uncertainty that the market has priced as risk. Right now that means a monopoly with over 95% share at 5.5 to 6.5x EV/EBITDA, where the market is pricing it as if future demand had been cancelled, when the reality is that it was just delayed.
A monopoly at 5.5 to 6.5x EV/EBITDA, with the biggest order year in its industry’s history still to show up in its revenue. One component, nothing in the industry gets built without it, more than 95% market share. The industry is critical infrastructure in structural growth, and for the countries doing most of the buying it has just stopped being discretionary spending and become a matter of national security. The rest of the setup: 28% of the market cap in net cash, zero debt Aggressive buybacks Quite liquid and US listed And those multiples are on a normalised year, not on the growth that is likely coming. 2025 was the biggest year this industry has ever had for new project awards, not one dollar of it has shipped yet, and from our primary research we believe those orders convert across 2027 and 2028. If 2028 reaches record revenue, we are talking about 3.9x EV/EBITDA. Why it is cheap: A war pushed projects in its main region to the right Guidance was pulled in May Management wrote off a diversification project they had funded for years No project was cancelled, they were delayed. We are profiting from uncertainty, not taking on risk. Given the business quality this has historically traded at high teens and even mid twenties EV/EBITDA, and at current prices a takeover is a real possibility. The market is treating delays as permanent impairment. After going through the filings and talking to insiders and management, we think expectations for profitability once the recovery lands are far too low, and nobody is pricing the optionality of a record year as the 2025 orders and the delayed ones arrive on a largely fixed cost base. Full write-up in Undervalued and Undercovered, link in comments.
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A monopoly at 5.5 to 6.5x EV/EBITDA, with the biggest order year in its industry’s history still to show up in its revenue. One component, nothing in the industry gets built without it, more than 95% market share. The industry is critical infrastructure in structural growth, and for the countries doing most of the buying it has just stopped being discretionary spending and become a matter of national security. The rest of the setup: 28% of the market cap in net cash, zero debt Aggressive buybacks Quite liquid and US listed And those multiples are on a normalised year, not on the growth that is likely coming. 2025 was the biggest year this industry has ever had for new project awards, not one dollar of it has shipped yet, and from our primary research we believe those orders convert across 2027 and 2028. If 2028 reaches record revenue, we are talking about 3.9x EV/EBITDA. Why it is cheap: A war pushed projects in its main region to the right Guidance was pulled in May Management wrote off a diversification project they had funded for years No project was cancelled, they were delayed. We are profiting from uncertainty, not taking on risk. Given the business quality this has historically traded at high teens and even mid twenties EV/EBITDA, and at current prices a takeover is a real possibility. The market is treating delays as permanent impairment. After going through the filings and talking to insiders and management, we think expectations for profitability once the recovery lands are far too low, and nobody is pricing the optionality of a record year as the 2025 orders and the delayed ones arrive on a largely fixed cost base. Full write-up in Undervalued and Undercovered, link in comments.
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The best part of buying something where the optionality is not priced in is that it does not fall when the optionality fails. Nobody was counting on it anyway. $PLBY is the cleanest example I own. Around 6x mostly contracted earnings, a lingerie business growing double digits underneath, and on top of that you get a media side that is starting to get traction, plus the hospitality and experiences arm coming from 2028. If it works this is a multibagger. If they cut it, I still own the base I paid for.
Might regret saying this right before earnings, but the setup for $PLBY looks very good. Why? Let me explain. The street is at 5.0m of Q3 Adj EBITDA. I get 7.1m on 33.4m of revenue. About 40% above consensus and up 75% year on year. Q3 is the first quarter the media work actually prints: paid voting contests where Playboy gets paid to collect emails, voters pushed into a new subscription, plus the seasonal step up in licensing. Coverage is thin and the published numbers look stale to me. That is usually where the gap between estimate and print comes from. Honey Birdette has done seven straight quarters of double digit store comps, Q2 revenue up 18%, and June was the best month in its history. At 8 to 13x EBITDA that is 56 to 137m against a market cap of about 120m. If the US flagship rollout and the online growth work, that becomes 140 to 270m over two to three years. So a good part of what you are paying is covered by the lingerie business, and the licensing arm comes at roughly 6x earnings that are mostly already contracted. Byborg, a strategic, paid 1.50 a share in October 2024, before the turnaround was proven and when the company barely made any Adj EBITDA. This year should clear about 30m. The stock is 1.03. Debt has gone from 218m to 145m, and they are buying back nearly 15% of the shares from Fortress at 1.05. To be clear, this is a multiyear thesis rather than an earnings trade. But expectations going in are low enough that the short term entry does not look bad either. I have done a lot of work on this name. Full write-up and the detail behind the Q3 numbers linked in the comments. It is a large position for me and in Pequity U&U Global Opportunities FIL.
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6/ @HugoNavarroPer2 of "Undervalued & Undercovered" presented doValue $DOV.MI, a major debt-servicing provider operating in Greece and Italy. The stock has fallen around 90% from its peak and "offers the turn in the credit cycle for free". undervalued-shares.com/mp-fi…
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