Adrian Gomez Investments

The first quarter for 2018 is gone and an earnings date has been announced for UA 's on May 1. I have been reading their latest 10-K filing and trying to find a clue on where the Company is headed. My findings are nowhere near pleasant but I assure you I've given this my best case scenario on everything and even then the numbers don't look good. Let me start with " Net Revenue " , the Company has been showing signs of deceleration in that area. It had been expanding at an average rate of 21.2 % annually over the last 4 years but with the slowest of them being last year at only 3.2%. Being generous, I will give this area an estimated 10% increase to an expected $1,229M when compared to same quarter last year of $1.12B . I said I am being generous because not only the company has shown signs of deceleration when it comes to Net Revenue but it has actually decreased in the sales here in North America where it lost 5.1% during 2017 (the equivalent to al...

This past weekend I was able to experience first hand what is going on at Under Armour’s stores. I must mention that the store I visited was not an outlet store but a regular one inside a big mall. I happened to be in the Grapevine area in Texas where the Gaylord Texan Resort is located. My thirteen year old daughter had a competition and I decided to take her. So I was naturally able to scout the area in search for clues on how the company is doing. I started by visiting Dick’s Sporting Goods and to my surprise the store was somewhat empty (meaning no customer traffic) and you couldn’t find many discounts around. I gave my wife the opportunity to look for one item that she likes (she takes yoga classes so I knew she was going to look for some pants or tops), after looking around she settled on some yoga pants but not from Under Armour, it was Nike’s and paid full retail price on them ($63.99). I, on the other hand, got myself an Under Armour cap for which I also paid full retail (...

Summary Revenue growth has decelerated considerably. Margins continue to shrink. Operating Income is almost non existent now. Under Armour's ( UA , UAA ) revenue as reported in their 10K for 2017 showed signs of deceleration and margins shrinkage causing their financials to deteriorate. Revenue stopped improving while their COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) and SG&A (Selling, General & Administrative Expense) continued their upward trend. This all started in 2015 when the Total Revenue of the company started to decelerate. From an impressive 32.25% increase in 2014 to a marginal 3.15% in 2017. But, who can blame a company increasing its revenue at double digits per year? It wasn't until 2017 that the company apparently found its peak.  COGS as % of Revenue also is showing signs of stress. In 2017 the company reported that for every $100.00 dollars in revenue it had to spend $55.02 to produce or buy the merchandise and services they sell. When in the past it w...

Capstone Turbine Corp (Nasdaq: CPST) This company has been in the business of developing, manufacturing and marketing microturbine technology solutions for a wide range of businesses around the world. Put in simple words, they make turbines to create clean energy relying very little in fossil fuels to do so. You can visit their  website  to read more of them. I started following this company about 2 years ago when the price of the stock was about $1.00 or so. I didn't buy there because to me it was too risky and the down potential was far bigger than making money on it. No the company is trading double that price and it is starting to gain traction. As you can see on their  Income Statement  posted on Yahoo Finance, the company has been increasing the sales every year for the past three and it looks just as good on this year. A recent video post  on You Tube about Walmart introducing a new type of truck (18 wheeler) that will reduce emissions and im...

It has been almost a year since I started following JC Penney and their turnaround effort. I have to admit that supporting them back then was just a little too early and I have paid the price, losing close to half of my original investment on shares of this company. Having said that, I still think this company can and will be turned around. Though I still think some of the changes that Ron Johnson introduced are good for the company (e.g. uncluttered stores), It is also true that taking away the coupons were a major mistake that resulted in a precipitated decline on sales. Now that Mike Ullman is back on the reign and coupons have been reinstated I think customers will come back. JC Penney is scheduled to release earnings this upcoming Wednesday, and based on the latest events and releases from the company, I expect it to give positive news that will give the stock a much needed boost and at the same time scare some short sellers away from it. I will listen to the conferenc...

Energy is a need for humanity, and oil companies have been in the front lines benefiting from covering this need. So, how can I get a piece of it? Swift Energy Co. (NYSE: SFY) This company is a small player in the oil  and natural gas industry but with huge potential to make my investment double in a relative short period of time. Swift Energy Co. had been on the wrong side of the industry, they were playing mainly on the natural gas (NG) and natural gas liquids (NGL). Now, with more and more operations on the Eagle Ford Shale they are becoming an oil company and moving away from the not so lucrative natural gas industry (as stated on their latest  quarterly results ). This move is expected to materialize on the next few months. Although Swift's balance sheet is not very healthy with a current debt higher than the current assets and virtually no cash on hand. I still believe that it has the means to navigate through this transition. Once the sale of their Louisiana asset...

For some investors it may seem like a scary thing to get into Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) stock right now, and who can blame them right? I mean, the stock has appreciated some 52% from $19.50 on Oct 23, 2012 a day before the 3Q12 earnings release to $29.66 as of Jan 18, 2013, while others, are still very optimistic about the future for this young company.  I have written on two other occasions about the prospects for this company and the future of the stock ahead (those of you who want to read the full reports please visit my personal blog and just look for the articles on the right side), and it looks to me as a still great opportunity to jump in, here’s a recap: Revenue -  It has been consistently increasing over the last 9 quarters at a compounded rate of about 13% sequentially, but decreased over the last 4 quarters to a rate of 3.5% Costs and Expenses –  The Company should start delivering improvements in this area, during 2012 they recognized a huge p...

On January 17 th 2013, Deckers (NASDAQ: DECK) participated in the 15 th annual ICR XChange conference in Miami, Florida. There, Mr. Zohar, Chief Operating Officer gave the presentation and several pieces of information are worth mentioning. So, here is a recap of that conference. Brand Portfolio. The company gave us a breakdown on the sales and what percentage is attributable to each of the brands they carry. ·          UGG Australia           84%     -Decreased from 87% on 2011. ·          Teva.                          9%       -Reaccelerated on the 3 rd quarter (growth of 21.8% y-o-y) ·          Sanuk    ...

A few days ago (probably more like a week or so) I was asked, by one member of my  Google Community , to perform analysis on two companies he considered to be worth looking at. +Terrence Chan  , I am sorry for taking so long but as an Accountant having a Tax Office you can only imagine my business hours right now. I have only been able to work on on one so far and wanted to share it with you. Aware (NASDAQ: AWRE), a company that supplies various products for the  bio metrics  and digital subscriber line (DSL) service assurance industries primarily in the United States and Germany. Giving it a first glance, I was reluctant to analyze it because of the low trading volume and lack of awareness on the company. However, I went ahead and looked at it realizing the good opportunity to make money from it. Unfortunately, for my reader, the way to profit from this company is, in my opinion, being on the other side of the trade, shorting the stock, writing c...