On May 5, 2021, Bluegreen Vacations Holding Corporation (BVH), formerly known as BBX Capital Corporation, completed the acquisition of the 7% publicly-traded ownership stake of Bluegreen Vacations Corporation (BXG) that it did not already own through a statutory short-form merger under Florida law. BXG shareholders received 0.51 shares of BVH’s Class A common shares in the merger. On April 5, the day of the merger announcement, BXG shares rallied 18.8%. BXG is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of BVH.
Continue readingHPE 21Q2 Results
The Company Reported Stronger Than Expected 21Q2 Results, But Its Upwardly Revised Guidance Was Somewhat Disappointing.
HPE reported fiscal 2021 second quarter GAAP earnings of $0.19 per share, well above its most recent guidance of $0.02-$0.08 per share and ahead of my estimate of $0.12. Its Non-GAAP earnings of $0.46 also exceeded its guidance of $0.38-$0.44 and my estimate of $0.42. Revenues of $6.7 billion were exactly in line with my projections.
Continue readingUpdate on Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
HPE has posted two consecutive quarters of stronger-than-expected results. Although the quarterly figures still lag behind the prior year, the recent strength suggests that its business is rebounding strongly off the bottom. As noted by management, HPE’s business portfolio, which sports beefed-up offerings in cloud services, edge networking and high performance computing (HPC), is well positioned coming out of the pandemic as organizations pursue greater flexibility in their IT operations to improve their ROI and seek a more permanent role for work from home. HPE also appears to be benefiting from a catch up in customer IT spending after pandemic-related delays.
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Five Star Alters Strategy, Its Stock Gets Slammed
In early April, Five Star announced a change in its strategy whereby it will transition out of the management of 108 smaller senior living communities (SLCs) with 7,500 living units (with an average of 69.4 units per community), close and reposition 27 skilled nursing facility (SNF) units (1,500 units) in its continuum of care retirement communities (CCRCs) and close 37 Ageility inpatient rehabilitation clinics that are located within the exited SLCs. The transition is expected to be completed by the end of 2021.
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Assessing the Impact of the Organon Spin-Off on Merck
Merck is progressing toward the spin-off of its subsidiary, Organon & Co., which is expected to be completed by the end of the June. Organon will include Merck’s women’s health products, biosimilars and certain established brands, most of which have lost patent protection. (For a more complete analysis of Organon, see my primary report dated April 14, 2021.)
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Five Star and DHC Restructure Their Agreement
On April 9, Five Star and DHC announced a restructuring of their management agreement whereby DHC will transition the management of 108 smaller senior living communities (SLCs) with a total of 7,500 units to other operators by the end of 2021. Five Star will reposition its senior living management business to focus on larger independent living (IL), assisted living (AL) and memory care communities, as well as stand-alone active adult and IL communities. It will also exit the skilled nursing facility (SNF) business.
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Merck Spin-Off of Organon Targeted for 21Q2
In recent weeks, Merck has been following through on its plan to spin-off its subsidiary, Organon & Co., to shareholders. On March 17, it filed its Form 10 registration statement related to the transaction. On March 24, it posted on its investor relations website a lender presentation related to planned debt to be issued by Organon. On March 30, it announced that it had agreed to acquire Alydia Health on Organon’s behalf. On April 8, it issued a press release announcing the pricing of three debt tranches in a private placement. The debt offering is expected to close on April 22.
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Vaccinations Raise Visibility of a Bottom in Occupancy for DHC
Diversified Healthcare Trust reported 2020 fourth quarter normalized funds from operations (FFO) (my definition) of $15.1 million or $0.06 per share, slightly better than 20Q3, but well below 19Q4. The results were modestly better than I anticipated with lower operating expenses, greater unrealized gains on its investment in Five Star Senior Living (FVE) and realized gains on property sales. Even so, occupancy in its senior housing operating portfolio continued to fall at about the same pace as in 20Q2 and 20Q3.
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Citius Pharma Raises $71 million in Equity Unit Offering
Citius Pharmaceuticals (CXTR) is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of four potential products: (1) Mino-Lok, an antibiotic lock solution to treat and salvage infected central venous catheters (“CVCs”) in patients with catheter-related bloodstream infections (“CRBSIs”); Halo-Lido, a topical formation of halobetasol propionate and lidocaine for the treatment of hemorrhoids; Mino-Wrap, a liquefying, gel-based wrap for the reduction of infections associated with breast implants following breast reconstructive surgeries; and a next generation mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) mRNA therapy under license from Novellus Therapeutics Limited that is early in pre-clinical development.
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Five Star Senior Living (FVE) Update
Vaccination of 90% of Residents Raises Visibility on a Rebound in Occupancy
Five Star reported slightly stronger 20Q4 results than anticipated, due primarily to gains on investments held by its captive insurer. Average occupancy across its owned and leased senior living communities (SLCs) declined by 320 basis points (bp) to 71.5% in the quarter, comparable to the decline reported for 20Q3. Average occupancy at SLCs managed for Diversified Health Care Trust (DHC) declined 293 bp to 72.3% in 20Q4. The decline in managed community average occupancy was 54 bp slower than that reported for 20Q3. At year-end, the company said that “spot” occupancy was 70.7%.
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