Image: Meta
Market Valuation: $250 Billion
Ironbound Buy-Side Valuation: $440 Billion Ironbound Assessment: California based Meta Inc., formerly named Facebook founded in 2004, is a multinational Social Media conglomerate focused on technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Meta wants all their products to share a vision of bringing the metaverse to life. Our upside valuation is $1 Trillion based on $100 Billion in sales for 2021 and continued sales growth exceeding 10% over the next few years. This is a reasonable expectation considering the company reported in 2021, Daily-active-users (DAU) just shy of 2 billion, nearly a third of the world’s population. The company has a strong societal mission, giving people the power to build communities and bring the world closer together, which will help the company continue to attract and retain top talent. Severely depressing the potential upside is the founder’s voting control, currently used to direct over $10 Billion a year to finance the buildout of a highly uncertain Metaverse. On the other hand, the limited control is helping prevent a sovereign wealth fund or group from acquiring the company for $440 Billion, or 13-times the average operating income between 2021 and 2019. At this price, the buyer(s) would acquire $100 Billion in assets and pay about 10¢ per DAU per day for 5 years, comparable to the Twitter acquisition, in Goodwill.
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Market Valuation: $700 Million
Ironbound Buy-Side Valuation: $99 Million Ironbound Assessment: New Jersey Based Bed Bath & Beyond, founded in 1971, is an American retailer that sells an assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty & Wellness markets. Our buyout valuation is $1.5 Billion that would account for the cash balance, property, and some additional goodwill. Unfortunately, the company faces major headwinds to profitability despite generating nearly $10 Billion in sales from numerous high quality retail locations and digital on-demand transformation strategies. Several problems at the Company can be rooted in a culture steeped in financial mismanagement. At the end of 2021, the company reported having only $440 million in cash on the balance sheet, of which most could be wiped-out to cover $320 million in current merchandise credits and gift card liabilities. The company faces shareholder lawsuits for false or misleading financial statements and also lawsuits for unjust enrichment using corporate assets to repurchase shares. Certain executive officers were awarded stock options with strike prices of $6, while employees were offered strikes ranging from $17 to $32. With a book value of only $175 million, our position is to stay away from this company until the stock drops below $1 per share to profit from a short squeeze.
Image: Business Insider
Market Valuation: $30 Billion
Ironbound Buy-Side Valuation: $20 Billion Ironbound Assessment: San Francisco based Twitter, founded in 2006, is a global social networking platform for real-time public self-expression. Our upside valuation is between $50 and $75 Billion, based on the $5 Billion in sales for 2021 and projected $7.5 Billion target for 2022. Twitter has numerous lucrative opportunities given their globally entrenched politically influential capabilities. However, headwinds holding down the valuation are risks with achieving double-digit sales growth. Long-term growth is rooted in cohesion between stakeholders, which management usually expresses through a commitment in core values – a company’s guiding north star. Without cohesion, both meaning and purpose can easily be lost. In Twitter's most recent 10-k financial filings, clearly expressed core values were missing. In addition, Twitter continues to lag behind the business trend in establishing carbon neutral goals. A board room wakeup call is needed, until then our position is to wait for the stock to drop below $25 a share before considering engagement.
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** For 17 consecutive years Dow Inc has received a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. In 2021, they ranked on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list and ranked #19 in the Diversity Inc Top 50 Companies. *** Received the 2021 BIG Innovation Awards from the Business Intelligence Group
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