A few of Sarine's management team bought back more than 500 thousand shares on the same day. Would people who know the company best buy more shares if they know they are going to lose money?
Sarine was featured in my list of very good companies with strong fundamentals, so this presents a very good opportunity to determine if we have stumbled upon a bargain.
Check out SGX's chart on Sarine's share price movement against news/announcements by the company.
Business Overview
Sarine develops, manufactures, markets and sells precision technology products for the processing of diamonds and gemstones. Their products provide smart automated solutions for every stage of the rough diamond manufacturing process, from high-precision geometrical modelling and internal inclusion mapping of the rough stone, through determining the optimally derivable polished gems, based on true dollar value, through laser cutting and shaping, to the inline quality control of the actual making and faceting of the polished jewel. They also aid in key aspects of the polished diamond trade - the grading of a polished diamond’s Cut and light performance and the provision of tools that simplify the online trade and enhance the in-store buying experience.
Here is an Isreal based company that prospects diamonds. They are essentially a company that provides recurring services to one of the priciest objects in the world. As their competitive advantage is in the technologies they own, Sarine has a strong moat around its business that can protect it from competition.
Diamonds are relatively low cost to obtain but can fetch a very, very, very high price because of the hype and image that has been built around the stone over the years. With such a fat profit margin, Sarine's customers would hardly feel the cost to get their diamonds prospected and would continuously be drawn by its convenience and time efficiency. For a business that is making money out of an industry that makes money out of very hard piece of rock that is not only in abundance but can also be grown, I feel comfortable about its long term prospects.
Management Overview
In Sarine's 2014 Annual Report, there are 9 faces under the board of directors and 15 faces under key management. Very detailed descriptions of each member, their biographies, qualifications and accomplishments are clearly presented in the annual report. This speaks a lot about Sarine's confidence in their management team and their dedication towards transparency.
Sarine has remained focused on its core business of providing service around diamonds and have not strayed into other areas which they might not be familiar with. This is a sign of resistance to institutional imperative, one of the key traits that Warren Buffett likes in management. The annual report provided such great details of the company's strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats that I would do them injustice to summarise it here.
Overall, I can feel the management's sincerity in educating investors about their business and their business is relatively easy to understand.
Financial Overview
- 5 year Average Growth rate: 12.80%
- Long Term Debt to Equity Ratio: 0
- Positive Free Cash Flow for past 5 years: True
- 5 year Average Owner's Return on Equity: 33.51%
- Piotroski F-Score: 5.5
- 4Ps Score: 100%
- Profitability Score: 100.0%
- Financial Health: 80%
Sarine's numbers seems very good, except for the F-Score which is below the good range of 8-9. Nonetheless, all other indicators show a healthy company that is capable of generating good returns over the next few years.
A 5 year average growth rate of 12.8% is decent and represents high possibility of capital gains. At 0% long term debt to equity, I have very little to worry about Sarine's possibility of becoming bankrupt. Sarine has also been generating positive free cash flow for the past 5 years and has an average return of more than 30%, which is a comfortable rate that can meet my expected rate of returns.
The 4P Score represents Sustained Profitability, Sustained Payment of Dividend, Sustained Positive Operating Cash Flow, and Sustained Positive Free Cash Flow for past 5 years. Sarine has scored full marks for this criteria, meaning that for the past 5 years, Sarine did not post any losses, did not miss any dividend payments, did not have any negative operating cash flow, and also positive free cash flow for past 5 years as covered in my original criteria above. This indicator represents the likelihood that Sarine will continue to perform as well in the near future.
Profitability score measures profit making capabilities for the past 5 years on the following ratios:
- Net Margin(%)
- Asset Turnover
- Return on Assets
- Leverage
- Return on Equity
- Free Cash Flow to Sales
100% is the best score that can be achieved, enough said.
Financial health score aggregates the strength of the balance sheets for the past 5 years on the following ratios:
- Long Term Debt to Equity
- Long Term Debt to Owner's Earnings
- Interest Coverage Ratio
- Current Ratio
- Quick Ratio
80% shows that Sarine is considerably healthy and quite unlikely to default or go bankrupt anytime soon.
Intrinsic Value
Based on my inflation adjusted expected return of 18.45% and the projected earnings for the next 5 year, I have valued Sarine at $0.759. The last done price for Sarine is $2.02, which is way above the intrinsic value. But due to the circumstance that led to the sudden decline in prices, there may be an opportunity for a quick profit, or an opportunity to get a hold on such a quality company at a discount while it meets temporary problems that was no fault of Sarine.
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