Ambassadors
Group is an educational travel company. It organizes and promotes international
and domestic educational travel and sports programs for youth, athletes and
professionals. A direct consumer model is used organizing and promoting
worldwide educational student travel. Also, student and adult travel programs operate
using the People to People brand under a long-term license agreement. Ambassadors
Group has been traveling students on People to People programs for over 50
years, over 500,000 alumni. Association with that brand coupled with deep experience
in educational travel give powerful market awareness and credibility.
The core program under the People to People brand is international destination trips for U.S. students ages 10 to 17 (“Student Ambassador Program”). Student Ambassador Programs account for the majority and strategic focus. Also, the People to People brand offers domestic destination travel programs for U.S. students and international students. Its focus is on leadership and education (“Leadership Ambassador Program”) as well as professional travel programs for adults (“Citizen Ambassador Program”).
EPAX is historically and market cheap,
aggressive share count reduction, positive insider activity (2013, 2012)
15% reduction in share
count from a 2009 balance of 19,105,000 to most recent reported 16,713,000.
Price/ Net Cash = 4.70, Price / Tangible Book = 1.40, TTM gross profit per share $2.60.
The company was founded in 1967, listed publicly 2002. Ambassadors Group has an excellent history of capital allocation demonstrated by returning cash to shareholders, aggressive share buybacks. To that point corporate HQ building located in Spokane, Washington is up for sale, 13 million sale price.
The company was founded in 1967, listed publicly 2002. Ambassadors Group has an excellent history of capital allocation demonstrated by returning cash to shareholders, aggressive share buybacks. To that point corporate HQ building located in Spokane, Washington is up for sale, 13 million sale price.
The current board has activist
value institutions serving. Lisa O'Dell Rapuano, CFA serves
on the board holding 1,194,959 shares for Lane Five Capital Management. Rapuano
spent ten years at Legg Mason Capital Management. At Legg Mason, she was the Research Director and portfolio manager for Legg Mason Special Investment
Trust. Further, she co-managed this fund with Bill Miller from 1997-2000. She ranked in
the top-decile returns reported by Lipper as the sole fund manager (2001-2003).
ValueAct’s Peter Kamin serves
on the board, holds a large stake (242,317 shares). Before Value Act in 2000, Peter founded and managed Peak Investment.In addition, Peak
generated a nine year compounded rate of return over 20%. Kamin holds a BA from
Tufts and an MBA from Harvard. Also, BANDERA PARTNERS holds 3,051,697
shares.
Market Cap: 60.82M , Enterprise
Value: 3.95M
Enterprise Value/Revenue: 0.08 ,
Price/Book: 1.40
Enterprise Value/EBITDA:
0.66
Revenue (ttm): 49.70M ,Revenue Per Share (ttm): 2.99
Qtrly Revenue Growth
(yoy): -51.70%
Gross Profit (ttm): 43.64M ,EBITDA (ttm): 5.96M
Total Cash (mrq): 64.41M ,Total Cash Per Share (mrq): 3.84
No Debt, Book Value Per Share (mrq):2.91
Operating Cash Flow
(ttm): 13.99M , Levered Free Cash Flow (ttm):
9.98M
52-Week Change:5.22%
Shares Outstanding:16.75M , Float: 11.97M
% Held by Insiders: 11.09% , % Held by Institutions: 68.10%
Short % of Float: 0.40%
