Outerwall – The Company Everyone Loves To Hate

By | June 19, 2022

Last Updated on June 19, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner

We agreed with the overall consensus. Redbox and Coinstar are two businesses in secular decline, and we do not expect growth going forward. However, there’s a difference between businesses that are not growing and a business that’s going to die in the next 3 years.

Source: seekingalpha.com

We asked ourselves a simple question when we began due diligence on OUTR: Will the kiosk DVD rental business die within the next 5 years?

We concluded with “No,” and will explain our thinking throughout the article. After bypassing the initial conclusion, we began modeling out a share buyback pro forma statement. And from what we can tell you, we hope and pray every night that OUTR’s stock price never rises. We hope that it never rises for the next 5 years, as a matter of fact. Here is a snapshot of our conclusion as to why:

Author: Craig Allen Keefner

Craig Allen Keefner is an industry analyst, content strategist, and longtime authority on self-service kiosks, digital signage, unattended payment systems, and interactive technology. He manages content and industry strategy for Kiosk Industry and The Industry Group, with a focus on kiosk software, hardware-software integration, accessibility, payment compliance, healthcare kiosks, restaurant self-service, and emerging AI automation. Craig has covered the self-service and kiosk industry since the 1990s, tracking how public-facing terminals move from concept to field deployment. His work combines industry research, vendor analysis, operator conversations, standards tracking, trade show coverage, and practical experience with the real-world constraints of kiosk deployments. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiosk