IBI Group Inc T.IBG.DB.E

10 Years Share Price Comparison of WSP, STN, IBG, SNC

[goinonaprayer]

I wanted to post a graph comparison of the four but not able. If you look at where the share price of each subject company was 10 years ago to today, you will see WSP has increased 175%, STN has increased 100%, IBG has decreased -65%, SNC has decreased -65%. 

I know it is not comparing apples to apples with company profiles however based on IBI's recent quarters it appears reasonable that a 240% swing in share price could be possible if we were reflecting WSP's share price rating.   I just found it interesting to see what has happened to SNC. IBI is left those negative ratings long ago and should be out of the penalty box.

[Calgaryrider]

Literally the only reason preventing IBI from being an $8-10 stock is the lack of awareness. @ At. This point, with good debt levels firmly in place and a rising EBitda, their best course of action is not a dividend, but start buying back some shares. @$10M/ year over ~200 trading days is about $50K (or 10k shares) per day. @The return on that investment is over and above anything they could

[goinonaprayer]

Agree with your thoughts. We know buybacks are more beneficial when imposed on dividend paying stocks. Perhaps using $10M in a hybrid plan of $5M dividend (results in almost 3% yield) and $5M for stock buyback is an option. I'm sure they are looking at all avenues. Alternatively to going private, at the recent trading price of $5/share, an offer at $7 would be lucrative for a take over firm

[Calgaryrider]

If you added up how many shares lie in the partnership along with the shares owned by employees (and former employees) outside of the partnership, I would hazard to guess there is close to 50% of all shares right there. If i was an employee / partner / management, I’d be looking at the deep discount to peers and asking myself what’s an attractive way to solve this issue.  I’d ask myself

[Calgaryrider]

Insiders (2) and the partnership is slowly starting to load up in the last 3-4 days.  I hope this continues as it adds immense confidence to prospective investors, incl. institutions. Nothing creates interest like momentum.  Once this gets to $6, there’ll be no stopping it.  

[SweetPete]

Just ahead of me CR, was just to post insider buying as well.  Good news, nice to see.