what’s your opinion on IRM?

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Hi Dan,
Bought IRM at $40s in 2022, it reached almost $130 but from last Nov it started to drop and now is at $70s. I bought the stock and I hold it till now. In hindsight, I should sell at least half of the shares to keep the percentage of the portfolio so to rake in profits. Except from the perspective of portfolio rebalance, maybe there’s something I should notice from the fundamentals of the stock itself. Can you please help me analyze this? If you were me what would you have done? Just want to learn from this experience and don’t want such things happen again.
Much thanks,
Fern

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Asked on April 7, 2025 4:53 pm
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Thank a bunch for your response Dan, appreciate it.

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Posted by fern.y.yang@gmail.com
Answered on April 9, 2025 1:41 pm
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The company is currently going through a large capital expenditure spending cycle as it attempts to build out its data center segment of the business. This has been the side that has witnessed the most growth as of late, obviously with the buildout in terms of artificial intelligence and data center demand.

It seems like a company that got a little too expensive on the hype/infrastructure demand for artificial intelligence and is now coming back down to earth a bit.

This is a high risk/high reward company in my opinion. I personally don't like the balance sheet overall. $14B in long-term debt, negative free cash flow generation (although this is likely temporary due to capital expenditure spend on data center expansion).

I have a feeling the company is going to either have to take out more debt or issue more shares, which it has been known to do.

A lot of the success of the company depends on its expansion in terms of data center buildout. It is dumping a ton of money into it and if it doesn't work out they could be in pretty tough shape.

This is not a company I would personally ever own, financials just aren't good enough for me. If all of its buildouts do lead to larger revenue and earnings, it could be capital well spent. The issue we get here is the company is not in a position to have things go wrong, which they could. It has a lot of debt, has issued a lot of shares etc.

Not my cup of tea personally.

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Posted by Dan Kent
Answered on April 8, 2025 8:01 am