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Stocks-in-Depth

Stocks-in-Depth thoroughly examines the fundamentals of reasonably valued high-quality small and mid-cap growth companies. It is produced by GARP Research, a provider of equity research to institutions including many of the most well-known fund managers for over 20 years. GARP is known for its granular modelling of business lines and in-depth assessment of competition and served markets. Stocks-in-Depth searches for value and growth by researching stocks that may be out of favor, or where a major catalyst to earnings growth is hidden. Our financial models attempt to shed light on trends underneath opaque segment reporting. Stocks in Depth emphasizes balance sheet accounts and profitability margins to determine underlying return on capital, and maintains healthy skepticism regarding pro forma adjustments and undue reliance upon unconventional measures such as EBITDA. We emphasize field visits with managements, industry conferences, non-public competitors and ancillary fields to detect industry dynamics. In our search for the best companies and investment opportunities, we often challenge the consensus view. StocksinDepth forecasts over the long-term, typically over about a three year horizon, and review track records going back for years.

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SID 0039 Mitel (MITL) - Part 1 from 2019-01-18T20:42:14

Mitel 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 underap...

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SID 0038 Realty Income Part II from 2018-12-21T01:37:50

Realty 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?  

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SID 0037 Realty Income (O) - Part 1 from 2018-11-21T23:40:26

Realty 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 s...

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SID 0036 Knowles (KN) Part III from 2018-10-18T14:57:31

Demand 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 i...

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SID 0035 Knowles - Part 2 from 2017-10-12T23:28:42

Knowles 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 i...

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SID 0034 Knowles (KN) - Part 1 from 2017-09-10T22:26:51

Knowles 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 aroun...

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SID 0033 Free Trade Doesn't Work - Part 4 from 2017-01-21T05:00

Donald 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 det...

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SID 0032 Free Trade Doesn't Work - Part 3 from 2017-01-14T05:00

Institutional 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 ...

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SID 0031 Free Trade Doesn't Work - Part 2 from 2017-01-07T05:00

The 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 ...

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SID 0030 Free Trade Doesn't Work - Part 1 from 2017-01-01T05:00

History 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 o...

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SID 0029 Generac (GNRC) Part 4 from 2016-12-25T05:00

When 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 disc...

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SID 0028 Generac (GNRC) Part 3 from 2016-12-13T20:31:12

Generac 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 eng...

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SID 0027 Generac - Part 2 from 2016-11-07T17:42:31

For 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, a...

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SID 0026 Generac - Part 1 from 2016-10-04T16:51:57

Generac 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...

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SID 0025 Central Garden&Pet - Part 3 from 2016-07-02T13:30:54

Central 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,...

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SID 0024 Central Garden&Pet (CENT) - Part 2 from 2016-06-02T15:29:58

In 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 prod...

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SID 0023 Central Garden&Pet - Part 1 from 2016-05-29T20:24:16

In 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 s...

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SID 0022 Columbia Sportswear (COLM) from 2016-04-06T17:18:41

In 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 brand...

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SID 0021 Power Integrations (POWI) - Part 2 from 2016-03-19T01:00

In 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 follo...

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SID 0020 Power Integrations - Part 1 from 2016-03-12T22:17:55

The 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...

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SID 0019 RealPage (RP) from 2016-03-05T02:21:14

How 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 it...

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SID 0018 Vocera Communications (VCRA) from 2016-02-27T01:00

Vocera 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...

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SID 0017 Taser International - Part 2 from 2016-02-20T03:00

Shares 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...

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SID 0016: Taser International - Part 1 from 2016-02-13T03:00

In 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 ...

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SID 0015 Entellus Medical: Part 2 from 2016-02-06T01:18:07

In 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 do...

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SID 0014 Entellus Medical from 2016-01-30T04:54

Entellus 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 ...

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SID 0013 Plantronics from 2016-01-22T01:59:54

Institutional 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 compa...

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SID 0012 Trimble Navigation - Part 2 from 2016-01-09T05:00

Three 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,...

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SID 0011 Trimble Navigation - Part 1 from 2015-12-26T05:00

Trimble 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...

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SID 0010 Cree, Inc. - Part 2 from 2015-12-19T05:00

We 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 ad...

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SID 0009 Cree, Inc. - Part 1 from 2015-12-12T21:18:32

Shares of Cree, Inc. are trading at about the same price as they fetched a decade ago, but at this point in time demand for LEDs for use in commercial lighting applications is very robust.  Othe...

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SID 0008 Zeltiq Aesthetics - Part 2 from 2015-12-05T05:00

Besides having a unique technology, cyrolipolysis, Zeltiq may be able to effectively use this revolutionary platform to address needs beyond the original intention to selectively reduce fat in a...

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SID 0007 Zeltiq Aesthetics: Part 1 from 2015-11-28T05:00

Zeltiq has single handedly created a new market for reducing fat that targets the moderately overweight segment.  It has become the fastest growing aesthetic treatment, which was already notable...

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SID 0006 iRobot from 2015-11-21T05:00

With the launch of its Roomba 980 vacuum in September 2015, iRobot has added cameras, sensors, and Wi-Fi connectivity.  CEO Colin Angle explains why he feels a roving sensor platform ab...

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SID 0005 Luminex from 2015-11-14T05:30

Out of the blue we've heard from some smart people interested in this obscure molecular diagnostics company.  Yet it seems few really know what's going on in this space.  All the focus is on the...

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SID 0004 Advanced Energy from 2015-11-07T05:30

In 1965 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, made an astounding prediction that transistor density on chips would double roughly every two years.  But few know that at the same time he warned chip...

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SID 0003 Synaptics from 2015-11-02T18:03:14

When Synaptics' stock price withered from over $100 per share this summer to the mid-60s, according to Bloomberg a state-backed buyer from China offered to pay $110 per share for the company, an...

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SID 0002 Myriad Genetics from 2015-11-02T16:45:08

In Myriad's analyst day in NYC on September 14, 2015, management discussed the outlook for several new growth drivers, and it addressed challenges faced in its legacy BRCA1/2 hereditary cancer g...

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SID 0001 Monotype Imaging from 2015-11-02T16:22:40

Monotype Imaging is regarded as having a unique and somewhat bullet-proof franchise, being a "toll collector" when companies use fonts anywhere from on a laser printer to cloud-based publishing ...

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