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The Investing Week Ahead: 10/4/21
Join me as I highlight the most important topics to attack the investing week ahead.
Welcome back to our Monday Special - a quick breakdown and interpretation of the investing week ahead of us.
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In this post, I’m going to cover:
Hot IPOs taking place this week
Quarterly financial reports worth reading
Investor events to keep an eye on
Major economic releases
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IPOs to Watch this Week:
This week is relatively slow with only 2 companies making their public debuts - both companies however will demand multi-billion dollar valuations and operate in the fitness segment.
iFit (IFIT):
The Utah-based fitness company was founded to develop fitness equipment and connected subscription-based exercise equipment & services. They’re the “parent company” of NordicTrack, ProForm, Freemotion, Weider, Weslo, and a few others.
The company boasts over 6.1 million total members - of which, 1.5 million were Total Fitness Subscribers. These subscribers generated nearly $1.8 billion in revenue for the company on a trailing 12 month basis (2Q21).
S-1 filing can be found here.
Despite the robust growth, I believe Peloton is still the authority in this space. Their net promoter score is undefeated, customer churn is very low, and as we learned from their recent invest event - they’re intensely focused on increasing household penetration during 2022.
Life Time Group (LTH):
This Minnesota-based company was founded to develop, acquire, and operate premium athletic health and wellness locations. Long story short, they’re a massive gym chain spanning across 29 states in the USA and a few places in Canada.
The company reports more than 1.4 million members who visited their locations more than 92 million times in 2019 (pre-pandemic). The company will likely end 2021 with ~$1.0 billion in revenue (-50% when compared to pre-pandemic levels).
S-1 filing can be found here.
I’m not too excited here. Gym memberships have sort of become commoditized and the ones that haven’t are after a very specific type of member (affluent). Life Time Group’s revenue rebounded since the pandemic, but is still down on a 2-year basis. Plus, they have an unlimited amount of competition in the space.
Key Earnings Announcements:
The ‘theme’ this week is consumer food and beverages with 3 companies in this segment reporting their quarterly financial results.
October 5: PepsiCo (PEP)
October 6: Constellation Brands (STZ), Levi Strauss & Co (LEVI)
October 7: Conagra Brands (CAG), Helen of Troy (HELE)
Personally, I’ll be keeping my eye on the Pepsi and Constellation Brands earnings results - these companies have weathered a storm of increasing cost pressure and slowing mobility gains as the Delta Variant ran its course during Q2.
Wall Street has a $170 PT on PepsiCo (+12% upside) and $275 PT on Constellation Brands (+30% upside).
Investor Events:
Unless you’re a car enthusiast, things are going to be pretty slow from this front.
October 6: Marvell Technology (MRVL) Investor Day, General Motors (GM) Investor Day
Never heard of Marvell Technology, but they’re a ~$50 billion microchip company raking in about $3.5 billion in revenue annually. Historical revenue for the company has been lumpy, but their stock is up +26% YTD, so maybe something to keep an eye on?
General Motors is.. well General Motors.
Major Economic Updates:
Trade deficit and payrolls - everyone’s favorite topics.
October 5: US Balance of Trade for August 2021 from the Bureau of Economic Analysis
October 6: US Non-farm Payrolls for September 2021 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Our trade deficit jumped to a 12-year high during the month of July, with data suggesting trade could drag on economic growth during the third quarter of 2021. This jump was mainly caused by a decrease in our services surplus for the month as a country. It’ll be interesting to see what August has in store.
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