Seeking Alpha: Talgo's Rail Opportunity Looks Frustratingly Binary

By and large, I think investors do well to stay away from binary investment outcomes where the stock is liable to be a big winner or a big loser, with not much ground in between. That may be an unfair assessment of Spain's Talgo (TLGO.MC), but the success of the company (and its shares) rests upon securing multiple high value rail bids, bids that Alstom (OTCPK:ALSMY), Bombardier (OTCQX:BDRBF), CAF, CRRC, and Siemens (OTCPK:SIEGY) will be competing for as well.

Talgo certainly has some technology in its favor, but companies like Alstom, Bombardier, and Siemens didn't build multibillion-dollar order books on the basis of blatantly inferior offerings.

I've tried to value Talgo on weight scenario basis that incorporates high win-rate, low win-rate, and moderate win-rate scenarios. Altogether, I come up with a fair value of EUR 6.70 per share today, and most of my bearish scenarios produce fair values in the EUR 3 to EUR 4 range, versus a current share price of EUR 4.50.

Readers should note that there is no ADR available for Talgo, so any investors who wish to purchase these shares will have to do so on the Madrid Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Madrid). Most of the larger brokers can and will handle these trades, but investors certainly need to ask themselves whether the added risk and hassle is worth it.

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Investopedia: Absent Macro Shocks, Cash And Expenses Will Drive Boeing

A year ago I thought that Boeing (NYSE:BA) looked undervalued and ready to outperform as investors bought in to the company's considerable commercial ramp. Since then, the stock is up about 20% and although worries about batteries on the 787 did create some headaches, the company remains in good shape with respect to its market share and backlog. I still believe that Boeing should sport a triple-digit stock price and though I won't ignore the risks of a major macroeconomic slowdown, I think the biggest concerns for Boeing are now reaching cost/profit targets and how to use the considerable sums of cash it will generate.

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Investopedia: Bulls Onboard Boeing

The stock of American aircraft giant The Boeing (NYSE: BA) seems to always be in "hurry up and wait" mode. Investors and analysts always seem to be more interested in the cycle to come than in the business today. Of course investing is a forward-looking endeavor, but it looks like the long-awaited good times at Boeing are in sight at last.


A Respectable Third Quarter
The good times are close at hand for Boeing, but not exactly here yet. Revenue rose just 4% in the third quarter, as relatively better sales (up 9%) in commercial aerospace offset flat results in the defense business. Within defense, Boeing balanced increased military aircraft revenue with declines in space and service and support revenue.

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Can Boeing Afford More Delays?

Patience in a funny thing. Everybody wants a job to be done right, but they also want it done on a timescale that at least approximates the original estimates. Customers appreciate that Boeing (NYSE:BA) is attempting to do something quite extraordinary with the 787 Dreamliner project, but if the company cannot ever deliver the plane, who cares how amazing it is? 

More to the point - is Boeing running the risk of giving unintentional aid and comfort to emerging rivals? Should investors worry that Boeing's scale and technical expertise may all go for naught because the company was too ambitious and customers ultimately settle for lesser planes that rivals can actually deliver?  

More Problems ... Again
Boeing has had no shortage of problems with this new 787 plane. Problems with the Rolls Royce engine (one of the two available; the other being offered by General Electric (NYSE:GE)) got a lot of attention, and now Boeing has suspended test flights after an onboard electrical fire. While the company has not formerly altered the expected initiation of deliveries in the middle of the first quarter of 2011, the Dreamliner is already three years behind schedule and more delays seem more likely than not.

Of course, these delays need to be kept in perspective. There has never been a plane quite like the Dreamliner, and the scale of the engineering challenges are enormous. On top of that, these planes may spend well more than 30 years in service and it is clearly important to get everything right ahead of time.  

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