RE:RE:RE:RE:Trading below book value(1) Share price has no fundamental function in the ability of the business to operate profitably. "Dividend yield" is not a performance metric, nor is it a tangible quantification of the health of the business (no matter what you hear on BNN). I cannot emphasize this enough.
(2) If Alaris buys shares at 9.5x the dividend (that's about what it would be today), it has replaced a cash outflow with an outflow that is 9.5x as large, so
net giveaway of opportunity funds is 8.5x the dividend. (3) NCIB's can (sometimes) make sense for companies that make more money than can be put to good business use. Alaris is not such a company.
Alaris must deploy capital or it will shrink as redemptions occur. Redemptions are structural for Alaris (part of the business model); opportunity funds must be retained to provide for positive net deployment over time. (4) The business's bottom line does not consider per-share ratios. It either has positive margins or it does not.
It either has required growth capital or it does not. (5) Share buybacks weaken the balance sheet for a real business.
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Aspertheoldman wrote: The objective of AD buying buying its own unit at a price below book value is not to support the price on the stock market..
It is rather to create value for the remaining unitholder.
Reducing the number of units increase the book value of the units.
Once eliminated, AD do not have to pay distribution to these units anymore.
It is the same as if AD was buying an investment earning 10.4%.
If AD can borrow at 5% to invest in its own unit earning 10.4%, it makes 5.4% profit
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