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- Subject: Price Co. (OTC-PCLB) - Speculative Buy
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:39:57 GMT
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- DOW RESEARCH GROUP
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- Price Co. (OTC-PCLB) - Speculative Buy
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- Business - Operates the Price Club cash and carry membership wholesale
- outlets selling basic goods to businesses, selected retail
- customers. Has 94 outlets in U.S., 17 in Canada.
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- We recommend purchase of shares of Price Co. (PCLB) for aggressive accounts.
- Recently there has been rumors circulating in the market about a possible
- buyout of the company.
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- According to analysts at Montgomery Securities and Alex Brown & Sons,
- likely suitors are Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE-WMT) and Kmart Corp. (NYSE-KM).
- The rumored takeout price of Price Co. is about $70 a share - which wouldn't
- be out of the question for the company.
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- We did a study comparing Price Co. to Costco Wholesale Corp. (OTC-COST)
- and concluded that a $70 buyout price is extremely reasonable. Here are
- the results of the study:
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- Price Co. (PCLB) Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST)
- Stock price (1/21/93) 37 1/2 24 3/4
- No. of warehouses 94 89
- Market capitalization $1.9B $2.8B
- Revenues (fiscal '92) $7.3B $6.5B
- Net (fiscal '92) $129M $113M
- P/E ratio 14.7 25.3
- P/B ratio 2.2 3.5
- Price/revenues ratio 0.25 0.42
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- From the study, we concluded that if Price Co. were to be given the same
- valuation as Costco, it's stock price should be above $70 per share.
- And given the name recognition of Price Club, the company's stock should
- be given a higher valuation despite Costco's higher growth rates.
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- And lastly, we've concluded that for geographic reasons, it is not surprising
- that Wal-Mart might be interested in buying Price Co. A buyout of Price Co.
- might be attractive to Wal-Mart because it would position Wal-Mart in some
- major West Coast markets. Price Co. has a dominant market position in
- California and some East Coast markets. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart's 243 Sam's
- Wholesale Clubs operates mainly in the Southeast and Southwest. In the
- membership warehouse business, it isn't inordinately difficult to integrate
- an acquisition. Furthermore, with a market capitalization of almost $70
- billion, it would not be very difficult for Wal-Mart to absorb the
- acquisition of Price Co. with a stock swap.
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- DISCLAIMER: There is no guarantee that the information on which this article
- was based is correct. There is no guarantee that the information
- in this article is correct. Also, the companies where we work
- have nothing whatsoever to do with this newsletter.
- Any opinion expressed here are statements of our judgement as of
- the date of issue and are subject to change without notice.
-