Artko Capital recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The fund posted a return of -11.4% for the quarter, underperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 20.5% in the same quarter. You should check out Artko Capital’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash.
In the said letter, Artko Capital highlighted a few stocks and Gaia Inc (NASDAQ:GAIA) is one of them. Gaia Inc (NASDAQ:GAIA) operates a global digital video streaming subscription service and online community. Year-to-date, Gaia Inc (NASDAQ:GAIA) stock gained 54.3% and on August 6th it had a closing price of $11.96. Here is what Artko Capital said:
“Gaia (GAIA) – Our investment in GAIA continues to remain one of our largest holdings at close to 14% and for good reason. While the stock has mostly stayed flat this year (though with a major decline in March and a subsequent rebound) the business continues to deliver on our thesis on all cylinders. In late 2018 the company pivoted from being a “high growth regardless of costs” story, which ironically are the most sought after stocks in the market today, to one of slower revenue growth, from 60% to 20% a year, but one that was focused on reaching Free Cash Flow generation by June 30th, 2020 without needing to access the capital markets. Since 3rd quarter 2018, or a little over a year and a half to end of June, 2020, the company has grown its subscribers 43% to 664,000 and quarterly revenues to over 50%, at $16.2mm, on the back of strategic price increases, while cutting the Operating Cash Flow loss $8.4mm a quarter to $1.9mm in profit at the end of June. In middle of June the company updated the market on reaching its 650,000th subscriber and achieving sustainable Free Cash Flow profitability and in August of 2020 the company reported a 664,000 subscriber number as the churn continued to improve.
With Covid-19 changing both, the ways the public exercises and increasing the volume of entertainment consumption, we believe Gaia is in an excellent position to capitalize on these trends with a significant customer base and brand name, as well as substantially lower customer acquisition costs (CACs). CACs have benefited from having the high churn rate vintages from 2017 and 2018 no longer being part of the net CAC cost base as well as lower rates from the typical customer acquisition channels as the economic slowdown takes its toll on the advertising rates. We believe with the quarterly CACs and corporate expense costs staying relatively flat for the last year, while the company continues to both, grow its subscriber base and raise prices on its formerly grandfathered accounts we should begin to see the power of the operating leverage inherent in the business model as a significant part of the new revenues should fall to the bottom line as Free Cash Flow. Our expectation that by 2021 we should see EBITDA/Free Cash Flow at above $20mm and $14mm with the market beginning to appreciate the earning power of the $150mm market capitalization company by the end of 2020, re-rating it to high double digit EBITDA and high single digit revenue multiples of its streaming peers to a stock price multiples higher than it is today.”
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In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Gaia Inc (NASDAQ:GAIA) stock increased by about 22% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers seem to agree with Gaia’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Gaia Inc (NASDAQ:GAIA) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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