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@hiddensmallcaps You do realize a grande blonde roast has have 300mgs caffeine right
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$CELH probably worth digging into on the back of this negative headline.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
A similar lawsuit against $MNST back in 2012 marked the bottom for that stock.
jacksonandwilson.com/blog/2012/octo…
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@RFortunae @gregwkitt @lurker8679 I will when I get to my computer. Why is it trading where it is lol
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$WEST. This is going to be a very interesting year. $337m debt matures Aug 2027 and goes ST at the Q3'26 report. $270m of preferred equity is puttable to the company in Feb 2028. I think it will be challenging to refi the debt without addressing the pref. Lenders are likely not going to allow a junior security to get paid before the senior secured lender.
The lender is probably not going to refi beyond the pref put date and allow the pref holder to put $270m back to the company before the debt holder gets paid back. And, the lender probably wont give WEST $270m more debt to retire the pref (ala XPOF in Dec 2025) bc its just too much leverage and too little assets (would be ~$700m of net debt on $95m of EBITDA and PPE of $480m). So, WEST could either raise money to pay down the pref to unlock the ability to rollout the debt, OR (what is more likely) try to incentivize the pref holder to push out the put provision to a later date in exchange for some carrot (probably warrants or shares or increase in redemption value) to enable a debt refi. In either event, it will be interesting to see how this cap table gets resolved.
$STKL is getting acquired for ~10x 2026 EBITDA and generated similar revenue and EBITDA to $WEST. Both are contract manufacturers. I think that is a pretty good comp. 10x $95m of 2026 EBITDA = $950m EV minus 450m net debt minus $270m pref = 230m cap / 96m shares = ~$2.50. I'm new to this company and could be missing a lot. Just how it looks to me.
**not investment advise, my opinions and observations only, caveat emptor
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@RFortunae @gregwkitt @lurker8679 Sent you a a dm a while back Rota. Would love to get more info on your bear case. I’m a bear as well. Want to see what aligns. I can send DD too
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The balance sheet is just a symptom of the larger issue
at $WEST which is that Conway is a failure. They promised $100M in EBITDA from RTD and if you back out the $15M from Peet's (k-cup) EBITDA has not grown in three years.
Further evidence is that they are now getting into Seltzer water which Scott said on the call you would not do if you spent a bunch of money on a retort facility.
Also not breaking out segment revenue anymore is a major red flag when SS&T EBITDA was up 150% last year on "taking advantage of commodity volatility" but incidentally it started going up the same quarter they put their Rwanda facility into a JV.
Also the 10K says they are now booking some revenues on completion of product instead of on shipment.
This company is a total shit show. They are being sued by their largest competitor for stealing people and trade secrets, Conway is a disaster, management is a farce. The only thing that it has going for it is its resilient stock price. Any other company in its scenario would be sub $1.
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$PLTR Just catching up on AIP CON 9, but I am yet again blown away by this company.
What Amit will bring out on Palantir also sounds incredible.
Also, check out $WEST's earnings call. I will have an article coming out on it soon.
amit@amitisinvesting
I did some interviews at AIPCon yesterday. People are going to be blown away by hearing some of them. One interview was a guy who runs a fashion shop in NYC. Small business. His explanation on adopting Palantir is the most simple way for anyone to realize why the ontology is the single most important thing in SOFTWARE and why it is undoubtably the only core element of value creation when it comes to implementing AI. Actually talking to customers once again proved to me how the market thinks they understand what’s happening in software but realistically, if you don’t understand how Palantir is unlocking value, you have no idea why it is the single most important name in software.
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@lurker8679 @gregwkitt The fords and their gang own the pref. Do they want to put good money into bad is the question
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@gregwkitt Yes I am not bullish. The company would argue the Peets capacity can be resold, worth allegedly $30m incremental ebitda. But mgmt has been long on promises, short on results for years now. They’ve kept the float tight with mostly just insiders, so no real price discovery yet.
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@grok @incomeanchor @gregwkitt Brother look at the glut of the bottling business. Too many businesses did same thing, demand isn’t there
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Agreed—WEST's blue-chip customers in retail, foodservice, CPG & hospitality bring real pricing leverage, pressuring those ~12.7% gross margins amid mix/ramp effects. Long-tenured ties help, but it reinforces the thin-margin reality & refi hurdles ahead. Conway scale-up could ease if volumes deliver without more dilution. Not advice.
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Adjusted EBITDA excludes ~$15M Conway scale-up costs in '25, highlighting core ops lift to $85M+ run-rate. Gross margins ~12.7% on $1.19B sales (down on mix/ramp), but mgmt sees expansion with volume at new facility. Debt ~$337M due '27 + $270M pref put '28 does pressure refi—reorg risk real if no extension/equity, per cap table math. Growth runway there if they deliver. Not advice.
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Solid analysis on $WEST cap structure. Debt facility matures Aug 2027 (~$337M senior), pref ~$270M puttable Feb 2028—refi likely needs pref extension or equity raise to satisfy lenders.
STKL deal ~12x 2026 EBITDA (EV ~$1.29B on $105M est). WEST just guided 2026 adj EBITDA $90-100M (up from 2025 $69.7M actual). At 10x that's ~$950M EV; minus ~$450M net debt + pref leaves ~$2.40/share equity value vs current ~$3.90.
Growth runway from Conway ramp is real, but execution + dilution risk key. Watch refi talks. Not advice.
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@TMZ I really don’t like to get political but is this about race? @jemelehill
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😳 The men’s basketball program at California State University, Bakersfield is at the center of a wild scandal ... after a former player-turned-coach was accused of running a multi-state pimping operation while working for the school.
Details: tmz.me/XjOuCDT

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Coke paid $5.6B for BODYARMOR.
Then wrote down $760M.
Michael Fedele saw both. He was there.
Now: Throne Sport Coffee. $18M raised. Mahomes on the cap table. Big Geyser (distributor that helped scale Celsius and Vitaminwater) moving product through NYC.
The playbook: athlete equity + Direct Store Delivery moat + functional ingredients.
He's not guessing. He's running the upgraded version of the one he helped write.

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@rubicon59 Data center interconnectors trade right now ($LITE and $AAOI). Then edge. I’m long $AMBA and $MRVL
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