Curreen Capital’s Top 5% Positions: Where I Am Finding The Most Value

The next section was excerpted from this fund letter.

Curreen Capital: All positions bigger than 5% of the fund

Benefit Options (ADV)

Benefit Options works with manufacturers and shops to promote merchandise by way of shops. The firm is among the largest managers of in-store sampling applications within the U.S. (for instance, would you want to do that new model of: cheese/chips/dip/and so forth.) Benefit Options was a SPAC-merger accomplished in October 2020. Benefit Options is a capital gentle enterprise that earns excessive returns on capital. It has a significant debt load, although the debt lacks onerous covenants and doesn’t come due for a number of years. Benefit Options makes use of its free money circulate to repay debt and purchase smaller rivals. The corporate presently trades at a sexy upside-to-downside ratio.

Credit score Acceptance (CACC)

Credit score Acceptance is a subprime auto lender, enabling subprime debtors to purchase automobiles from used automobile dealerships. The enterprise has profitably gained share in a big and tough marketplace for greater than twenty years. Administration allocates free money circulate to rising the enterprise and repurchasing shares at engaging costs. Credit score Acceptance presently trades at a sexy upside-to-downside ratio.

Enhabit (EHAB)

Enhabit offers healthcare and hospice companies in sufferers’ houses. The corporate serves sufferers lined by Medicare, Medicare Benefit, personal Insurance coverage and Medicaid – with reimbursement charges declining in that order, from the upper ranges paid by Medicare to the decrease ranges paid by Medicaid. Enhabit was spun out of Embody Well being in July 2022. Traditionally, the enterprise earned excessive returns on capital and grew each organically and thru acquisitions. The corporate has struggled because the spinoff, with declining revenues and better prices, which drove it to repeatedly search covenant reduction from its lenders. Enhabit presently trades at a sexy upside-to-downside ratio.

Frontdoor (FTDR)

Frontdoor sells dwelling service plans to householders. The corporate contracts with HVAC and different contractors and dispatches them when clients have issues with one in all their main dwelling home equipment and methods (furnace, air con, fridge, electrical system, and so forth). Frontdoor spun out of ServiceMaster in October 2018. Frontdoor serves about 2% of U.S. houses, and makes use of its free money circulate to develop organically, pay down debt, repurchase shares, and extra lately – to launch an app that connects service specialists with clients on a video chat. Frontdoor presently trades at a sexy upside-to-downside ratio.

GetBusy (OTCPK:GETBF)

GetBusy offers on-line doc trade systems-primarily for accountants. GetBusy spun out of Reckon in August 2017, and has continued to develop since then. GetBusy doesn’t earn cash, investing by way of increased bills to develop its present companies and trying to launch new merchandise. The underlying companies are worthwhile and sustainable within the U.Okay. and U.S.

Nilörn Group (NILB:SS)

Nilorn designs and delivers tags and labels for European clothes manufacturers. The corporate combines just-in-time supply with high quality design that may elevate the client’s merchandise within the eyes of the tip shopper. Administration makes use of free money circulate to develop the enterprise and pay a dividend. The corporate’s returns on capital are about 30%. Nilorn presently trades at a sexy upside-to-downside ratio.

VF Corp (VFC)

VF Corp manages attire manufacturers, together with Dickies, The North Face, Supreme, Timberland, and Vans. Underneath its prior CEO, the corporate’s poor capital allocation (together with overpaying for Supreme and sustaining a too-high dividend after spinning out Kontoor) pressured it to pause its mannequin of utilizing extra free money circulate to amass good manufacturers and handle them nicely. The corporate has now minimize its dividend (twice) to an affordable stage and introduced on a brand new CEO who has a monitor document of efficiently turning round companies. I consider that the corporate has good manufacturers, the abilities to handle them nicely, and a administration staff that’s righting the ship. VF Corp presently trades at a sexy upside-to-downside ratio.

DISCLAIMER

The knowledge contained herein concerning Curreen Capital Companions, LP (the “Fund”) is confidential and proprietary and is meant just for use by the recipient. The knowledge and opinions expressed herein are as of the date showing on this materials solely, aren’t full, are topic to alter with out prior discover, and don’t comprise materials info concerning the Fund, together with particular info referring to an funding within the Fund and associated necessary danger disclosures. This doc will not be meant to be, nor ought to or not it’s construed or used as a suggestion to promote, or a solicitation of any provide to purchase any pursuits within the Fund. If any provide is made, it shall be pursuant to a definitive Non-public Placement Memorandum ready by or on behalf of the Fund which accommodates detailed info in regards to the funding phrases and the dangers, charges and bills related to an funding within the Fund.

An funding within the Fund is speculative and will contain substantial funding and different dangers. Such dangers might embrace, with out limitation, danger of antagonistic or unanticipated market developments, danger of counterparty or issuer default, and danger of illiquidity. The efficiency outcomes of the Fund might be unstable. No illustration is made that the Normal Accomplice’s or the Fund’s danger administration course of or funding targets will or are prone to be achieved or profitable or that the Fund or any funding will make any revenue or is not going to maintain losses.

Until in any other case said, the efficiency info contained herein is for the Fund and is web of a 1.50% annual asset-based administration charge and a 20% annual profit-based efficiency allocation. As with all hedge fund, the previous efficiency of the Fund isn’t any indication of future outcomes. Precise returns for every investor within the Fund might differ as a result of timing of investments. 2013 – 2023 returns have been ready based mostly on audited monetary statements, and 2024 efficiency info contained herein has not but been independently audited or verified. Whereas the information contained herein has been ready from info that Curreen Capital GP, LLC, the final accomplice of the Fund (the “Normal Accomplice”), believes to be dependable, the Normal Accomplice doesn’t warrant the accuracy or completeness of such info.

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Editor’s Be aware: This text discusses a number of securities that don’t commerce on a serious U.S. trade. Please pay attention to the dangers related to these shares.