EPAM - Embedded Expectations Analysis - 2021 01 12
EPAM Systems, Inc. (EPAM:USA) currently trades at a historical high relative to UAFRS-based (Uniform) earnings, with a 46.1x Uniform P/E. At these levels, the market has bullish expectations for the firm, but management may have concerns about revenue growth, their capital allocation strategy, and the impact of the pandemicSpecifically, management may lack confidence in their ability to sustain revenue growth, mitigate gross margin declines, and continue improving their cash collection. Furthermore, they may have concerns about the coronavirus's impact on the industry and on projects. Moreover, management may be exaggerating their focus on cross-sell clients and the progress of the health information technology project. Finally, they may be concerned about their capital allocation strategy and the potential of key investments
Epam Systems is a provider of software product development and digital platform engineering services to customers located around the world, primarily in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company's industry services include financial services, travel and consumer, software and hi-tech, business information and media, life sciences and healthcare, as well as other industries.
In 2009, just as the dust was settling from the last major equity and credit market crises, we launched a boutique research firm with the intention of breaking Wall Street’s biases and broken incentives:
- GAAP and IFRS have failed to provide rules for reliable financial statement reporting
- Stock analyst recommendations are not grounded in disciplined financial analysis
- Credit agencies have been set up to grossly fail in their responsibilities to investors and the public markets
- Utter lack of willingness of major research firms to employ the the most advanced forensic analysis available
We sought to provide investors and company analysts with a source of information that changed all that.
Many years later, our business model remains because little has changed on Wall Street.
- Corporate credit ratings remain years behind the fundamental underpinnings of company performance
- Stock analysts continue to make recommendations with deeply inherent biases
- Research firms have failed to break down the walls between credit, equity, and macroeconomic research
- The governing accounting bodies have created more leeway for mis-estimates and mis-classifications as financials have become unwieldy and overwhelming
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