Fundamental Short Selling Research

Eric Fernandez, CFA

TwoRiversAnalytics

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<li>This model seeks companies that are potentially “overearning”, defined as companies with unusually high margins relative to their own history or relative to the industry. </li>
<li>The reasons for the margin increases are sometimes unsustainable or fraudulent. The  critical judgement involves to what extent unsustainable margins are embedded in a company’s forecasts and/or the stock’s valuation. </li>
<li>These shorts tend to have moderate to higher betas, higher valuations due to recent strong results and good short responses to subsequently disappointing earnings.</li>
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This model seeks companies that are potentially “overearning”, defined as companies with unusually high margins relative to their own history or relative to the industry. 
The reasons for the margin increases are sometimes unsustainable or fraudulent. The  critical judgement involves to what extent unsustainable margins are embedded in a company’s forecasts and/or the stock’s valuation. 
These shorts tend to have moderate to higher betas, higher valuations due to recent strong results and good short responses to subsequently disappointing earnings.


Overearning Short Candidates: LSB Indust., CF Indust., Alpha Metallurg., Mueller Indust.

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<ul><li>After dropping all the way back down to $75 on September 26th, OPEC’s ~1M/barrel day production cut announcement last week was followed up by another bullish crude oil inventory draw last week, which sent WTI crude oil rocketing higher 16%. </li><li>This was the largest weekly gain since Russia invaded Ukraine and caught the market by surprise. </li><li>The production cut also sent a strong signal to President Biden after OPEC agreed to a production increase in early August after his Saudi Arabia visit (last week’s cut was more than 9X the production increase previously agreed to!). </li></ul>

After dropping all the way back down to $75 on September 26th, OPEC’s ~1M/barrel day production cut announcement last week was followed up by another bullish crude oil inventory draw last week, which sent WTI crude oil rocketing higher 16%. This was the largest weekly gain since Russia invaded Ukraine and caught the market by surprise. The production cut also sent a strong signal to President Biden after OPEC agreed to a production increase in early August after his Saudi Arabia visit (last week’s cut was more than 9X the production increase previously agreed to!). 

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Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. provides mining services. The Company mines and supplies metallurgical products to the steel industry. Alpha Metallurgical Resources serves customers globally.

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Overearning Short Candidates: LSB Indust., CF Indust., Alpha Metallurg., Mueller Indust.

Margin over-earners are fertile hunting ground for shorts if the reasons for the margin increase are unsustainable or fraudulent. This week: LSB...

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After dropping all the way back down to $75 on September 26th, OPEC’s ~1M/barrel day production cut announcement last week was followed up by...

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