RE:RE:RE:RE:Trican vs StepTypical Canadian company racking up the debt desperatly selling the best business cheap to survive short term. Always a 6 month vision thats why they all needed $400BN in bailouts last three years... Still an agrairian country like 1923.....
EstevanOutsider wrote: At the time, it was the US sale that saved the company so can't say it was a bad decision in retrospect. At the time the US market was also oversupplied which is the opposite now. 5-years has been a long time. They did the right thing at the time.
firstworld wrote: Too bad Trican sold USA and RU business both are the best performing units....dimwits.
EstevanOutsider wrote: STEP was trading at a distressed valuation while Trican was trading at a premium multiple. STEP carried heavy debt and was a credit risk prior to the recovery and normalization of credit metrics. STEP's US exposure set corporate records while Q2 set a ebitda record of any quarter.
Trican continues to trade at a premium multiple to STEP.
STEP's outperformance is mostly based on multiple correction rather than fundamentals.