smo001 Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Interesting article from the Financial Post about GMCR. Company trades at "trade at 295 times cash flow, according to data compiled by Bloomberg." But, 25% of the float is already short according to Yahoo Finance. Also, "the company also faces the prospect of increasing competition as patents on the Keurig K-Cup system are set to expire next year." For the records I don't short nor do I have the desire to. But I do know some other board members do. Simply food for thought. Cheers! http://www.financialpost.com/thought+Starbucks+expensive/4309836/story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dazel Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Wow...it is up $30 after hours at $110. What a Short squeeze! Does Einhorn still have his massive short? http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140205006471/en/Coca-Cola-Company-Green-Mountain-Coffee-Roasters-Enter#.UvK55qN5mSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpRaider Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Doh! I'm seeing a green light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dazel Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Shorting is a tough game. We had considered looking at hedging somewhat lately at frothy levels but holy shit...one deal and you are really really smoked. Ackman and Einhorn or two of the best in the business....and they have not only lost a ton of money...their reputations have gotten hit badly... Is cash not a better option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palantir Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Wow...it is up $30 after hours at $110. What a Short squeeze! Does Einhorn still have his massive short? http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140205006471/en/Coca-Cola-Company-Green-Mountain-Coffee-Roasters-Enter#.UvK55qN5mSM I hope he's short.....way too entertaining to watch them fall flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dazel Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 47%! $118. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constructive Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 SODA down 8% after hours. This deal puts them on a collision course with KO and GMCR. I wonder if Pepsi might want to buy Sodastream in response? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dazel Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 There was a long thread about gmcr? Still around did anyone call or even think about this? http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/coca-cola-pods-will-let-people-make-drinks-at-home/2014/02/05/7a46a6c4-8ec4-11e3-878e-d76656564a01_story.html Has the nature of quick serve drinks changed? If this is the case it has "huge implications". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggbriar Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 There was a long thread about gmcr? Still around did anyone call or even think about this? http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/coca-cola-pods-will-let-people-make-drinks-at-home/2014/02/05/7a46a6c4-8ec4-11e3-878e-d76656564a01_story.html Has the nature of quick serve drinks changed? If this is the case it has "huge implications". There was a good article in Fortune recently about Green Mountain. http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/16/technology/keurig-green-mountain.pr.fortune/ They talk about doing soup and other things as well with the Keurig machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serendibz Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Coca Cola takes 10% stake and the price shoots up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpetrescu Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I think it is game over for Einhorn, at least for this position. The GMCR short was sounding very convincing for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deepValue Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Can anyone tell me why Starbucks, Campbell Soup, etc. would sign an agreement with GMCR on anything but the most favorable terms (unfavorable for GMCR)? It seems like they could go to any other white-label manufacturer for the same thing. And I don't really understand this agreement with KO. My understanding is that Coke is just signing up as a licensed product on Keurig Cold. Is that right? And my guess is they get manufacturing and distro for free in exchange for the equity investment. I don't understand why the bulls would get so excited about this, but I don't really understand the GMCR bull case in the first place. I can say that I'm really glad I don't short stocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCG Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Can anyone tell me why Starbucks, Campbell Soup, etc. would sign an agreement with GMCR on anything but the most favorable terms (unfavorable for GMCR)? It seems like they could go to any other white-label manufacturer for the same thing. [/size] [/size]Because they've found that it's more expensive to do on their own than licensing GMCR, who already has the infrastructure in place. I've been saying Einhorn was wrong on this for a while (see here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 50centdollars Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Anyone know what the Coca-cola Keurig cold is going to be? Are we going to be buying are own little Coca-cola syrup packs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dazel Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 DCG, Do not know if you are long GMCR...I am not...I looked at shorting it a long time ago and passed. If the hedge funds pile on Einhorn like they did Ackman could get very interesting for GMCR holders. Ackman - they all bought into Herbalife at the same time he had to cover driving up the price - they shorted the stocks Ackman owned knowing he would have to sell to get leverage ratios on side - and they short squeezed all of his other short positions...so they would rise where he had to cover... - it was ugly...CP rail probably saved Ackman...He had to cover as we know...and later bought puts... Einhorn was short Herbalife....I do not know if he was part of the group that ganged up on Ackman....but you can be sure that Ackman is looking at revenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCG Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 DCG, Do not know if you are long GMCR I'm not any more. I owned it for a while and unfortunately sold it way to early to move cash into something else (don't even remember what). They're a local company mainly based here in Vermont so things I was hearing from a couple people who worked there (nothing really that wasn't public news) and other news I was reading just didn't match up with Einhorn's thesis (which was basically that once their patent expired, the company was doomed). Producing K-Cups is a much more involved process than it seems. There's actually a great article in the latest Fortune magazine about GMCR which touches on k-cup production. Starbucks tried doing it themselves and struggled with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deepValue Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Producing K-Cups is a much more involved process than it seems. There's actually a great article in the latest Fortune magazine about GMCR which touches on k-cup production. Starbucks tried doing it themselves and struggled with it. Would you mind posting the link or telling me what the title of the article is? I can't seem to find it on the Fortune website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsAValueTrap Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Thank god I covered my GMCR short. (I happened to make a profit.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurpaul88 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Thank god I covered my GMCR short. (I happened to make a profit.) ;D, did not see this coming from KO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCG Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Producing K-Cups is a much more involved process than it seems. There's actually a great article in the latest Fortune magazine about GMCR which touches on k-cup production. Starbucks tried doing it themselves and struggled with it. Would you mind posting the link or telling me what the title of the article is? I can't seem to find it on the Fortune website. Took way too long to find, but I finally found the link. Here you go: http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/16/technology/keurig-green-mountain.pr.fortune/ Edit: damn..looks like you have to be a subscriber to view the whole article. Guess you'll have to pick up a copy of the magazine. Anyway, it gives some good insights into the company, and shows they have more of a moat than you might think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAL9000 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 There was a long thread about gmcr? Still around did anyone call or even think about this? http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/forum/investment-ideas/gmcr-green-mountain-coffee-roasters-inc-(short)/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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