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Finance a la shmoop. What are overbought and oversold? Alright well the company
- 00:08
hair be back came out with a hair growth formula for men that actually worked on [Before and after shot of a bald head and then a head full of hair]
- 00:14
the head not the knuckles not the elbows not the feet not on the well you know..
- 00:19
anywhere else.. But actually on the head and it didn't look like transplanted
- 00:23
butt hair and of course the stock zoomed from ten bucks at its IPO to almost a [Stock prices from IPO to now]
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- 00:29
thousand the only problem was, well the company was kind of running out of
- 00:33
bald heads to service. It was clear that growth would slow at some point in the [Pie chart showing bald men and men with hair]
- 00:38
next few years and maybe slow dramatically yet everyone loved hair be
- 00:43
back and while at the IPO the company went public at twenty times earnings it
- 00:48
now traded at eighty two times earnings and that multiple kept expanding well if [Price of earning keeps going up]
- 00:54
you looked for shares of hbb you'd find them in essentially every neutral fund
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hedge fund index fund family office portfolio University endowment and
- 01:04
pension fund and well pretty much you name it everywhere everyone owned it. [Arrows pointing to everyone owning shares]
- 01:08
Only so many bald heads to shade though well these shares are overbought that is [Overbought stamp]
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there was a much higher chance that from that point while they'd go down rather
- 01:19
than up alright does that mean they go down next quarter next year no not [Red cross appears on the calendar]
- 01:23
necessarily it's just that the supply-demand
- 01:25
equation here looks a bit scary especially if you were a trader playing
- 01:29
hot potato with a potentially highly volatile eighty two times earning stock [Trader on the phone]
- 01:33
that could get cut in half really quick and of course the same holds true for
- 01:37
the company bald no more whose Somalian division did in fact engage in fraud
- 01:43
they were convicted they had the evidence on video and had to pay a fine [Court gavel]
- 01:48
of 600 million Zimbabwean dollars or roughly 11 bucks U.S. but when news of
- 01:54
the fraud conviction hit shares of the primary US corporation went from about [Stock chart going down]
- 02:00
$200 a share all the way down to 40 where they sit today representing a
- 02:05
company with no debt fifteen dollars a share in cash and two dollars a share in [Company information is listed]
- 02:10
projected earnings this year assuming nothing
- 02:13
from Somalia well those numbers place the equity cap of the company at a
- 02:17
modest single-digit multiple of earnings about half the multiple at which this
- 02:22
growthy company had historically traded well the shares now are owned
- 02:25
almost nowhere just a fuel loyal concentrated value oriented mutual funds [A few mutual funds are shown on a map of the world]
- 02:31
own it and by the way they're all predicting three or four dollars a share
- 02:35
in earnings not two that's how we got that single-digit multiple there uh
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nerd lingers. No hedge funds on it no endowments no pensions well the shares [Funds being crossed off a list]
- 02:42
have been yes oversold and likely they have upward pressure at least as driven [Oversold stamp]
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by sentiment changes likely to hit when um you know that Somalian thing has long [Chart showing prices going up]
- 02:52
since passed and eeesh talk about something that'll put a little hair on your chest.. [Guy with a really hairy chest]
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well, you don't necessarily want it there but you know...
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