UAFRS vs As Reported Weekly Highlights - 2019 04 24
This week, Valens identified distortions and the corresponding adjustments to correct for those distortions for KHC, HLF, and NEWM.New Media Investment Group owns, operates and invests in local media assets focused in small to mid-size markets. The company's main products include: daily newspapers; weekly newspapers, which publishe up to three times per week; shoppers, which are generally advertising-only publications; locally-focused websites, which extend the company's businesses onto the internet and mobile devices; business publications; UpCurve Cloud and ThriveHive digital marketing; and GateHouse Live. In addition to its main products, the company also produces publications that address specific local market interests such as recreation, sports, healthcare and real estate.
Herbalife Nutrition is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a nutrition company. The company's products categories are: weight management, which provides meal replacement, protein shakes, drink mixes, weight loss solutions and healthy snacks; targeted nutrition, which provides beverages and dietary and nutritional supplements containing herbs, vitamins, minerals and other natural ingredients; energy, sports, and fitness, which provides products that support a healthy active lifestyle; outer nutrition, which provides facial skin care, body care, and hair care; and literature, promotional and other, which provides start-up kits, sales tools, and educational materials.
Kraft Heinz is a food and beverage company. The company manufactures and markets food and beverage products, including condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, and other grocery products throughout the world. The company has three reportable segments defined by geographic region: United States, Canada, and Europe, Middle East, and Africa. The company's remaining businesses are combined and disclosed as Rest of World. Rest of World comprises two operating segments: Latin America and Asia Pacific.
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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