"I think its a very
undervalued company, obviously, or I wouldn't be buying it.
This is because the extent to which an
undervalued company represents an opportunity to generate benefits from activism depends on the feasibility of bringing about change.
But any potential offer would be subject to finding willing lenders, and potentially other willing co-investors, who also see opportunity in it as an
undervalued company, since no single private equity firm would likely be able to sustain the cash needed to support its purchase price and desired returns on investment.
One of her directors, Ralph Whitworth, the noted value investor, won his board seat weeks before she became the boss buying shares of what he considered an
undervalued company.
The broker considers Northern Logistic Property to be an
undervalued company that is on the right track.
Sir Alan - host of hit TV series The Apprentice - declined to say if he was simply investing in what he saw as an
undervalued company. But City experts thought he was unlikely to launch a takeover bid.
They believed that Manchester United was an
undervalued company, and were proved right, and their judgement was rewarded to the tune of about pounds 80 million.
Pendragon has always insisted its holding is purely an investment in an
undervalued company, but it runs the risk of annoying the car manufacturers who have always determined who gets what brand franchise.
They probably just bought Littlewoods because they see an
undervalued company and an opportunity.''
The next stage in the analysis was to determine whether Acuson was an
undervalued company. In August 2000, our patent indicators indicated that Acuson (trading at $14.50 per share) was one of the most undervalued companies among the 350 publicly-traded U.S.
Prior studies have also documented the gains made from taking over an
undervalued company.(4) This undervaluation could be observed in a company whose stock price does not reflect the replacement cost of the company's assets or, in a related fashion, it could be due to inefficient management not operating the company to its true potential.
SLICKER SAYS: We see Viglen, at just pounds 157 million, as the most
undervalued company in the stock market.
