A noteworthy entrant to the distressed ranks is Xerox (XRX) – in the 1980s, the copier producer’s stock was one of the greatest performers ever, registering an astounding 4,500-fold gain in the 50 years through its all-time high on May 3, 1999. Xerox’s senior debt is now on the watchlist for downgrading.
In April, we recommended selling the bonds of this e-commerce business at $878 – which we had recommended buying four months earlier at $840. They have since fallen dramatically. In this report, we are recommending buying them back. And we explain why the price of the bonds has dropped and why we think it will rise again.
On February 13, we issued our Distressed Investing report A New Burst Of Life, in which we recommended purchasing Herbalife’s 4.25% convertible bonds due June 15, 2028. Today, we are recommending selling the bonds, to realize a return of 35% from our entry price. Our thesis for recommending the bonds less than five months ago
Innovations of the past few decades have created many outstanding opportunities in distressed investing. To ease the pain of distress, financial entrepreneurs created new procedures to reduce the cost of fixing broken balance sheets – all to the benefit of individual investors.
Today JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU) announced a new round of cost cuts as travel demand remains sluggish. The company is reducing its schedule and ending service to certain markets. JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty indicated the company is unlikely to achieve its previously stated goal of a breakeven in operating margin this year. Since we recommended
The company whose bond we recommended in February and whose stock we are recommending in this issue has made a strong turnaround – plus, it has recently made three related purchases that should further help its profits… and share price.
Distressed-bond veteran Marty Fridson shares that you can reduce the risk of winding up on the wrong side of a trade by stepping back from the financial minutiae and the technical charts. Start by making certain the company is in a reasonably stable competitive environment.
Distressed-debt recommendations don’t rely on stories about immunity to recession that may turn out to be fairy tales. No. Instead the Distressed Investing team rolls up their sleeves, gets their hands dirty, and invokes a couple of more clichés that describe rigorous analysis of companies’ financial leverage, maturity schedules, liquidity sources, and cash flows.
EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) reported its results for the quarter ended March 31. The news pushed up our Hughes Satellite bonds to a price where we recommended selling. Operating profit for the Hughes Satellite business – the business that issued the 5.25% secured bonds maturing August 1, 2026, in the Distressed Investing portfolio – rose 8.1%
In the heart of America’s Corn Belt, the company whose bond we recommend in this issue has quietly transformed itself from a traditional ethanol producer into a biotech innovator – unlocking more from every kernel of corn than anyone thought possible.