Outerwall – The Company Everyone Loves To Hate

By | March 19, 2015

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: Staff Writer

Craig Keefner is the editor and author for Kiosk Association and kiosk industry. With over 30 years in the industry and experience in large and small kiosk solutions, Craig is widely considered to be an expert in the field. Major kiosk projects for him include Verizon Bill Pay kiosk and hundreds of others.