$CAI Set To Keep Climbing

2019년 12월 17일

CAI has broken out to the upside on the news that the keep is evaluating its strategic options. Yesterday's news headline:

CAI International jumps (CAI +15.2%) as the company announces that it is exploring potential strategic alternatives to maximize stockholder value.

CAI has appointed Centerview Partners as its strategic financial advisor.

CAI is trading at just 9x earnings and 0.86x book value. The stock still looks cheap.

CAI International, Inc. operates as transportation finance and logistics company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Container Leasing, Rail Leasing, and Logistics. It leases, re-leases, and disposes equipment; and contracts for the repair, repositioning, and storage of equipment. The company leases its container equipment to lessees under long-term, short-term, and finance leases. It also sells containers; and manages equipment for to third-party investors, as well as sells used containers. In addition, the company leases railcars consisting of box cars for paper and forest products; covered hoppers for grain, cement, sand, plastic pallets, and other industrial products; general purpose tank cars that are used to transport food-grade, and other liquid and gaseous commodities; gondolas for coal and steel; and general service flat cars. Further, it offers domestic and international logistics services, including intermodal, truck brokerage, port drayage, warehousing, international ocean freight, and freight forwarding, as well as the arrangement and coordination of international air freight services and customs brokerage; international export and import services for full container loads, less than container loads, perishable cargo, project cargo, and airfreight; and transportation management services and technology solutions, including shipment optimization, load consolidation, mode selection, carrier management, load planning and execution, and Web-based shipment visibility. As of December 31, 2018, the company had a container fleet comprised 1,568,707 cost equivalent units; and an owned fleet of 7,279 railcars in North America. The company was formerly known as Container Applications International, Inc. and changed its name to CAI International, Inc. in February 2007. CAI International, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

As always, use protective stops and trade with caution.

Good luck to all!