How Institutional Investors Handed Me An 87% Profit
The Dynamic Wealth Report
July 29, 2010
by Robert Morris, Editor
Big news yesterday from the recently comatose M&A front. Private equity
firm, Vestar Capital, is paying big bucks for Health Grades (HGRD).
Health Grades is the leading health care ratings organization in the
U.S. They provide quality ratings on every hospital, nursing home, and
physician in the country.
The company’s growing by leaps and bounds thanks to their website.
Healthgrades.com pulls in a whopping 23 million unique visitors every
month. And these visitors are driving white hot advertising and
subscription revenue growth.
Here’s the skinny on the deal…
Vestar is going to buy Health Grades for $294 million in cold hard cash.
That works out to $8.20 per share. A 29% premium to the stock’s closing
price on Tuesday of $6.34.
An all cash tender offer will be made to shareholders no later than
August 10th.
So, what’s the big deal?
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Back in February I recommended Health Grades to
subscribers of my Penny Stock Breakouts advisory service. I believed the
shares offered huge upside potential. You see, Health Grades was a
perfect example of the kind of small cap company I love.
Strong growth with a significantly misvalued stock price.
Check out these stunning five year growth rates. Revenue increased 35%
annually. And earnings grew an impressive 28% a year.
And the outlook for 2010 was also very good.
Revenue was expected to jump 20%. And analysts were forecasting
eye-popping earnings growth of 27%.
But the shares were badly misvalued by the market.
At a price of $4.34, Health Grades was trading at just 15.5x the 2010
earnings estimate. That’s a PEG ratio of 0.57. In other words, the stock
was trading at a 43% discount to the projected earnings growth rate.
I knew these shares wouldn’t stay down for long.
Investors would surely send them rocketing higher in no time. And that’s
exactly what happened. Take a look at the chart below.

I recommended Health Grades in early February at $4.34 per share. The
shares immediately took off. Over the next three months, they climbed in
a strong uptrend.
The shares blew through my price target of $7.00 in early May. In my
mid-month update, I told subscribers to sell half their position.
Many
of them booked gains of 60% or more!
With the market declining sharply, I made certain my subscribers took
some profits off the table.
However, I believed Health Grades had more upside potential. So I also
recommended holding onto half the position. It turns out this call was
spot on as well.
When news of the acquisition broke yesterday, the shares soared more
than 28%. I immediately put out a sell alert to subscribers. The shares
were trading at $8.12 which gave us
an impressive 87% gain!
Not too shabby.
Here’s the key…
When you buy fast growing small-cap stocks with misvalued prices, good
things can happen. Misvalued companies are prime M&A targets. And buyout
firms often pay hefty premiums for solid growing companies.
That’s exactly what happened with Health Grades. And that’s how
institutional investors handed my subscribers and me an 87% profit in
just six months time.
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