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Let’s invert ! French companies not to buy

Let’s invert ! French companies not to buy

Or when minority shareholders interests are not aligned with those of the owner or majority shareholder

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Feb 03, 2025
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Sometimes it is good to invert things so in this post rather than saying what appears interesting let us focus on the french companies not to buy. The aim is not to waste time on these companies so that we can focus on the interesting companies.

There are many reasons as to why I think no time should be wasted on these companies and of course I could be wrong:

- Regulated agreements, when the amounts are too important or that there is just an

accumulation of them it is a red flag for me,

- Saw the management and I asked them questions which they did not like and started the

competition on who am I, how much do I manage,

- There just seems to be always something going wrong in one of the BU’s

- Over communication

- Switch in communication to boost share price to help to do a capital increase

- EBITDA is artificially boosted

Once again bear in mind that I could appear to be though and that I also have my biases. And this is an unpopular post so I know that I will be getting some pushback. Add to that that some companies have done very well but nevertheless as it is in my process I will not invest in them.

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