中概股做空机构Citron称360股价被严重高估 -- Worth $5!

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11月1日晚间消息,中国概念股做空机构Citron发表投资报告,将矛头直指奇虎360(NYSE:QIHU),称其股价被严重高估,目标价实际仅有5美元。截至北京时间22:32,奇虎报18.29美元,跌幅9.5%。

  2011年5月2日,在斯凯股价高达18美元时,Citron发布报告,称斯凯采用的是即将被淘汰的商业模式,同时将斯凯目标股价定为3美元。当时斯凯进行了回击,并召开了新闻发布会,随后多名分析师调高了斯凯股票评级。但四个月之后,斯凯的股价如实报于3美元。Citron称,这不是因为的报告,而是其业务模式的必然发展结果。

  今日,Citron发表投资报告称奇虎360与斯凯有诸多相似之处的公司。据其预计,奇虎360的股价将降至5美元,较当前股价低75%。Citron表示,奇虎360与斯凯一样故意向华尔街美化其业务,旨在赢得更高的市值。

  报告认为,奇虎360的上市时机较为适宜。2011年春,中国所有的互联网股票都表现强劲,新浪股价逼近150美元,优酷超过50美元。在营收有限的情况下,奇虎360却为公司未来制订了过高的标准。

  Citron投资报告要点如下:

  1、我们将360目标价定为5美元,比目前交易价格区间低75%。

  2、360是一家拥有Web 1.0品牌和业务模式,却希望(或者是号称)向移动、云计算和搜索转型的公司。然而,在这些新兴领域,他们不仅远远落后,市场份额也无从谈起。

  3、360称,按活跃用户量计算,它是中国第三大互联网公司,是中国第一大互联网与移动安全解决方案提供商;按用户渗透率计算,它是中国市场第二大浏览器提供商。它在中国市场的网民渗透率超过80%,月活跃用户量超过3亿。这一切听起来非常惊人,但问题是:这些说辞与真相相去甚远。

  4、谷歌提供的数据显示,按访问量计算,360在中国市场的排名仅为第21位,覆盖率仅为10%。这意味着360的月活跃用户量仅为3000万至4000万,远低于3亿。

  5、Alexa提供的流量数据显示,360在中国市场的排名仅为第35位,低于搜狐(第9位)和凤凰网(第12位)。

  6、股东每投入1000美元,360的回报不足100美元。相比之下,凤凰网的回报接近900美元,搜狐约为450美元。

  7、360自称是“中国领先的移动安全提供商”。事实上,它尚未从移动业务获得一分钱的收入。该公司在最近提交的10-Q文件中提到了这一点。

  8、360没有颠覆性技术,更没有诸如微博这样的快速发展的产品,只有浏览器,而且功能非常简单。对于那些需要上历史课的人来说,浏览器不是业务,而只是工具。作为浏览器行业的“鼻祖”,网景现已关闭,一家非盈利机构拥有其开发的浏览器。

  9、如果360是一家美国公司,那么由于法律纠纷和业务模式的疑问,它根本不可能上市。我们给出的5美元的目标股价已经非常慷慨。

  结论

  Citron计划在第二部分继续追踪奇虎的故事,第二部分将主要叙述与360有合作关系的投资银行向公众提供的大量误导信息。同斯凯一样,我们在看到不少分析师的报告时也感到十分惊讶,它们只是打着独立分析的幌子,重说一遍管理层对未来的期望。

  我们期待着他们能捍卫自己的声誉,希望他们能提供更多真实数据,而非管理层对未来的展望。同时,我们建议独立投资者应该去寻找独立数据,做出自己的判断,尤其是那些能证实奇虎真实营收状况的数据,而不是更为关注360描绘的“未来计划”,尤其是从未产生任何营收的计划。

  背景资料

  Citron Research常被翻译成“香橼”公司,是一家擅长于狙击中国概念股的民间调查机构,这类机构通常采用预先卖空,然后发布负面投资报告的方法狙击中国概念股。

  Citron就是以做空东南融通并导致其退市而闻名。Citron在解释自己的做法时称,很多公司与人们的期望不切合实际,他们的好日子即将过去。

  据悉,这种方式在美国市场上这是一种常见、合法监督方式。在美国市场上有两个层面的监管:一种是自上而下的监管,即证监会和交易所对上市公司的监管;另一种则是自下而上的监管,即广大的投资者对上市公司的监管。投资者实行监管的主要形式就是卖空和集体诉讼。(爱文)
 
Thanks for mentioning this company. It has only $40M revenue but $2.2B market cap.

On the other hand, this company is not heavily leveraged and thus may be a bit risky for any downward betting ...
 
TORONTO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Fairfax Financial Holdings is maintaining its market hedges due to concerns about the global economic outlook and in spite of the recent turnaround in stock and bond prices, the insurer's founder and chief executive said on Friday.

Prem Watsa, who made billions from his prescient call on the 2008 financial crisis, told investors and analysts he continues to be very concerned about the market prospects for North America and Western Europe, and sees a "pocket of developing problems" in China.

"We're looking at this as balance-sheet recession, so there's a lot of deleveraging taking place among individuals as well as businesses," he said on a conference call to discuss the insurer's third-quarter results.

With governments in the United States and Europe already on austerity programs and central bank interest rates near zero, governments have few options available to reverse the situation, he said.

He compared the current environment to the 1930s depression or Japan's recession in the 1990.

"In those time periods, government bonds were the ones that benefited an investor," Watsa said.

$1.6 BLN INVESTMENT GAIN

Fairfax's bond holdings and fully hedged equity portfolio allowed it to notch a $1.6 billion gain on investments during the quarter, a period in which Canada's main stock index fell 12.6 percent.

All told, the company earned $973.9 million, or $46.73 a share, in the second quarter, ahead of estimates of $23.45 a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S/.

Its shares, which have outperformed its peers since the middle of the year, were up 1 percent at C$415.93, making it the strongest Toronto-listed financial stock in early Friday trading.

The results overshadowed a small operating loss in the company's core property and casualty insurance business, due to higher-than-expected claims losses related to catastrophes such as Hurricane Irene and the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

"As has so often been the case (with Fairfax), huge investment gains far overshadowed operating results that were good, but not great," RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Dwelle said in a note.

Since the end of the quarter, stocks have rallied - the S&P/TSX composite index is up 7.6 percent - while bond prices have fallen, meaning Fairfax has likely already lost some of the unrealized gains on its portfolio.

"We're looking through all of that. We're looking at the long term, and there will be a point where we'll realize these gains, but we don't think it's today," Watsa said.
 
Nepean_01:

It is worthwhile to listen to both Buffett and Watsa. Buffett tends to be right int he long run and Watsa in short to medium run.

They seem to contradict but actually not. Buffett's operation is far more diversified while Fairfax is not ...
 
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