9/05/2013

Potential Value under .50 Cents and worth a Closer Analysis

Hooper Holmes Inc. (HH): does a medial examines 3 times every minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They arrange more medical exams than any other company and process millions of specimens in their laboratory.

Current price is $0.40 per share.

Value investing shops have been invested in HH as the stock has been on a multiyear decline. Heartland Value has been a share holder for many years and continues to add to their position. Heartland now owns 19.85% of the shares outstanding. Back in 2002 HH was trading over 10 per share back.

Hooper Holmes has a market cap of 27.95M with a 23.81M enterprise value. TTM sales were 138.53M and gross profits 31.32M. Insiders own 13.51% and purchased more company stock today.

"but there's one more thing" Steve Jobs

The company owns a five-building complex located at 170 Mt. Airy Road, Basking Ridge, New Jersey. The property was on the 1998 10k. I don’t know when the property was purchased but it’s safe to say it’s on the books well below the market value. A quick search shows that many single family homes currently list at the high end for +900,000 in Basking Ridge, New Jersey only 40 miles from NYC.

Director Gus Halas reported (09/05/13) the purchase of 100,000 shares for .40 per share.