Introducing The Hit List

Summary

• From next week we layer in another new feature in our 'Fundamentals' subscription service.
• We'll be building and maintaining 'The Hit List', a basket of companies we think are ripe for acquisition in the next 12-24 months.
• We'll include stocks from both cloud and space sectors in the list.
• As usual, with new functionality, our prices for new members will move up to reflect the increased value delivered.
• The Hit List commences Monday; prices rise 1 November.  Start your 2-week free trial now - beat the price rise.  Details below.

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Short-Term Trades, Long Term Holds ... And Now, Consolidation Plays Too

Come Monday we begin layering in a new source of value in our subscription service, 'The Fundamentals'.  We'll have a specific universe of stocks in the cloud and space sectors that we believe can be acquired by strategic or financial buyers in the next 12-24 months.

Our logic is simple.  We've been in a bull market fuelled by free money for over a decade now.  One consequence of this is that there are a whole lot of relatively small public companies in the cloud and space sectors; to date, even when lossmaking and troubled, most all have been able to raise capital and keep funding growth.  The market has been kindly in that way.

Inevitably this will change - it always does.  After any long expansionary period, any cooling off brings with it a major contraction of appetite to fund losses in growth companies.  The top names will continue to prosper, we have no doubt.  But point solution names or those with business models that are simply very difficult standalone and in truth ought to belong to a larger business?  We think there's going to be an uptick in M&A activity. 

We'll be building and maintaining The Hit List from Monday.  It will feature names in cloud - we have PagerDuty (PD) top of mind here - and names in space - we're thinking of Maxar Technologies (MAXR) amongst others - which we believe will become increasingly attractive to strategic buyers. 

We'll lay out the logic for such a sale, the likely buyers and the potential sale price range.  This will all be accessible 24/7 real-time in our proprietary 'Cestrian Stocks Central' worksheet.

Two comments on this.

First, it's a hit list.  Not everyone on it will be acquired, of course.  And calling the timing of M&A deals is a rather imprecise science.  So we'll be saying - that any one specific name in this list will be acquired tomorrow is low probability.  But that a number of the list will be acquired over time - that's going to be a much higher probability in our view.  

Second, we run a real-money portfolio as you know.  That will continue with the Hit List.  For the higher conviction names we'll be buying personally, in staff accounts (as always subscribers will get the heads up before any specific trade).

Pricing

We started our 'Fundamentals' service in January 2019 and since then its gone from strength to strength, growing in popularity each week. 

Each time we layer in new value, we raise our prices for new members.  New members only.  Current members never suffer a price rise.  It pays to join quickly in order to lock in a lower price than will be the case should you delay.

Here's how our pricing will change:

Monthly Subscription:  moves from $159/month to $199/month.

Annual Subscription:  moves from $1,499/yr to $1,999/yr.

This will take effect 1 November. 

We'd love to have you aboard as a new member.  Join us now to beat the price rise.  Click this link to take a 2-week free trial, read our reviews, check out more detail about our service, and so on.  And you can always reach out to us anytime at [e-mail] if you want to discuss by email.

Cestrian Capital Research, Inc - 19 September 2020.