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Ackroo Inc V.AKR

Alternate Symbol(s):  AKRFF

Ackroo Inc. provides marketing, payment, and point-of-sale solutions for merchants of all sizes. It develops and sells an online loyalty and rewards platform. The Company also offers e-gift card, GiftFly, for small to medium sized merchants. Its self-serve, data-driven, cloud-based marketing platform helps merchants in-store and online process and manage loyalty, gift card and promotional transactions at the point of sale. Its payment services provide merchants with low-cost payment processing options through payment technology and service providers. Its hybrid management and point-of-sale solutions help manage and optimize the general operations for niche industries, including, golf clubs, automotive dealers and more. Its solutions are focused on helping to consolidate, simplify and enhance the merchant marketing, payments, and point-of sale ecosystem for their clients. Its Simpliconnect business offers software as a service, focused on driving client engagement.


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Post by Torontojayon Feb 11, 2023 7:44am
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Interesting developments

Interesting developments

The good news is that the company will improve its balance sheet with the divesture of Gggolf. The bad news is they acquired the company for $1,800,000 and sold it for $ 1,600,000. Instead of making an acquisition a year, they should consider improving its balance sheet especially during a difficult time period. Why can't they grow organically? 

Anyway, as of Q3, the working capital is - $ 801,739 which is not good. They have an additional $2,844,172 in long term debt on top of that. 

The latest acquisition will increase this deficit as the latest acquisition will cost them $ US 2,000,000 which is about $ C
2,680,000 of which $ US 1,500,000 or C $2,010,000 will get paid off by the end of the year. The Gggolf divesture will give them help to pay down the US acquisition but it will still increase their deficit. I've calculated they will receive $ $1,600,000 from the sale but they will owe an additional C $401,000 to pay off the US acquisition. There is some share dilution as well. 


Total deficit by end of 2023 :

$801,739 + $2,844,172 + $401,000 - free cash flow (2023) 

= $4,046,911 - free cash flow (2023) 

=~ $3.5 m (explained below) 


The company is generating at least $500k annually in free cash flow without the additional US acquisition. The company loses about $900k in Gggolf revenue but it adds
C $1,340,000 in the US acquisition. The net difference shouldn't change the situation that much. 

It would take about 7 years for the deficit to be elimated at current rates. This is too high in my opinion. 
 

 



 

 

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