AMA shares fall another 33% after its latest quarterly

Nick Sundich Nick Sundich, April 17, 2023

AMA (ASX:AMA) shares reached a peak of $1.43 in mid-2019, but closed Friday at 24c and opened this morning at just 17c – a drop of ~89% since the high. Where did it all go wrong and what lessons can we learn from this?

 

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Why it all went wrong for AMA shares

Smash repairer AMA Group has endured several issues in the last four years. Obviously, lockdowns meant less people on the roads and therefore less need for smash repairs and car parts. And when things returned to normal the company was hit by labour shortages, inflation and supply chain issues. On top of all this, it was hit by lawsuits from its disgruntled ex-chief executive and operators of a company it had acquired.

Investors have kept getting burnt by the stock because they thought the dramas were over – or at least the worst of them. But almost every quarter, they were proven wrong and paid the price.

 

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AMA Group (ASX:AMA) share price, log scale (Source: Tradingview).

 

 

The latest setback for AMA

In its most recent quarterly, AMA slashed its FY23 EBITDA guidance to $60-$68m, down from $70-$90m. The company was still impacted by labour and supply chain issues as well as inflation. It noted that industry contracts still do not contain appropriate dynamic adjustment mechanisms that insulate parties from inflation or other pressures.

The company recorded positive cash flow from operations, but only $323,000 and it was negative by $3.7m for the 9 months in FY23 to date. It closed the quarter with $20.5m in cash, down from $33.3m at the end of the last quarter.

 

The lesson in all this for investors

There is money to be made from turn around stories. But it is a very risky move in the absence of any evidence that a turn around is actually happening. No company will tell its investors that it isn’t trying to solve issues impacting its performance.

But there’s never any guarantee that those efforts will bear fruit. So, try not to catch flling knives. Wait until the downtrend is broken, which wasn’t the case with AMA just yet, as illustrated in the chart.

 

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