by John Huber | Dec 7, 2016 | Ideas, Investment Theory, Special Situations
There are three main “buckets”, or categories of investments where most of the stocks I buy tend to come from: High-quality businesses with a long runway of opportunities to reinvest capital at high rates of return Durable, well-managed mature businesses that are...
by John Huber | Sep 7, 2016 | Ideas, Investment Journal, Special Situations
Like most value investors, I perk up when I see something that appears to be trading at a large discount to a readily identifiable net asset value or otherwise intrinsic value. I look at many different special situation investments, but often pass for one reason or...
by John Huber | Aug 26, 2016 | Ideas, Special Situations
Just a quick post to comment on the results of the LMT/LDOS exchange. To quickly recap, LMT sold a subsidiary business to LDOS using a Reverse Morris Trust. LMT shareholders were given the option to tender their shares of LMT in exchange for shares of LDOS at a 10%...
by John Huber | Aug 11, 2016 | Ideas, Special Situations
There is a unique opportunity to take advantage of a merger between a Lockheed Martin (LMT) subsidiary company and Leidos (LDOS). Earlier this year, LMT announced that it was looking to sell its Information Systems & Global Solutions (ISGS) business. LDOS emerged...
by John Huber | Apr 4, 2016 | Ideas, Special Situations
The investment thesis here is one of the simplest ideas I've come across in a while. Associated Capital (NYSE:AC) is basically a big pile of cash and liquid investments that trades at a sizable discount to the value of those assets. It almost literally represents the...
