Sidoti Virtual Investor Conference

March 24, 2021, 7:30 AM·2 min read

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Presentation Times and Weblinks Released for Over 125 Presenting Companies

Wednesday and Thursday, March 24-25, 2021

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / March 23, 2021 / Sidoti & Company, LLC proudly releases the presentation schedule, with weblink click-throughs, for its Spring 2021 Virtual Investor Conference to be held on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 and Thursday, March 25, 2021.

Virtual Agenda - Wednesday, March 24th - All Times EDT Click on Company Name to Open Link to Zoom Meeting
8:30-9:00	American Software (AMSWA)	The ODP Corporation "Office Depot" (ODP)	AudioCodes (AUDC)	1-800-Flowers (FLWS)	ICF (ICFI)	Chesapeake Utilities (CPK)	American Finance Trust (AFIN)
9:15-9:45	Unisys (UIS)	Lydall (LDL)	UFP Technologies (UFPT)	Haverty Furniture (HVT)	Charles River Associates (CRAI)	Minerals Technologies (MTX)	Farmer Mac (AGM )
10:00-10:30	OneSpan (OSPN)	Albany International (AIN)	VolitionRx Ltd. (VNRX)	La-Z-Boy Inc. (LZB)	Kelly Services, Inc. (KELYA)	*****	Crawford & Company (CRD)
10:45-11:15	Intelligent Systems Corp (INS)	Comfort Systems USA (FIX)	Transcat, Inc. (TRNS)	PetMed Express, Inc. dba 1-800-PetMeds (PETS)	*****	CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust (CORR)	Altra Industrial Motion Corp. (AIMC)
11:30-12:00	PAR Technology Corporation (PAR)	Graham Corporation (GHM)	Encore Wire Corporation (WIRE)	Steelcase Inc. (SCS)	Team, Inc. (TISI)	Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR)	Deluxe (DLX)
12:15-12:45	LICT Corporation (LICT)	BlueLinx Holdings (BXC)	Kimball Electronics (KE)	*****	Air Transport Services Group, Inc. (ATSG)	Otter Tail Corporation (OTTR)	VSE Corporation (VSEC)
1:00-1:30	ATN International (ATNI)	EnPro Industries (NPO)	RadNet, Inc. (RDNT)	ACCO Brands (ACCO)	GSE Solutions (GVP)	Pure Cycle (PCYO)	The Shyft Group (SHYF)
1:45-2:15	Comtech Telecom (CMTL)	Standex International (SXI)	Protech Home Medical (PTQ.V)	Systemax Inc. (SYX)	Brady Corporation (BRC)	*****	Diamond S Shipping (DSSI)
2:30-3:00	Xperi Holding (XPER)	AZZ Inc (AZZ)	Electromed, Inc. (ELMD)	PC Connection (CNXN)	ePlus inc. (PLUS)	Matthews International (MATW)	Echo Global (ECHO)
3:15-3:45	CTS Corporation (CTS)	Federal Signal Corp (FSS)	United Fire Group "UFG Insurance" (UFCS)	American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)	TrueBlue (TBI)	Portland General Electric (POR)	Viad Corp (VVI)
4:00-4:30	CSG (CSGS)	Capstone Turbine (CPST)	*****	Grand Canyon Education (LOPE)	Resources Connection (RGP)	Matrix Service Company (MTRX)	Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX)
1x1s Only	*The Gorman-Rupp Co (GRC)*	*HNI Corporation (HNI)*	*MYR Group (MYRG)*	*Perdoceo Education (PRDO)*	*SPX Corporation (SPXC)*	*Sykes Enterprises (SYKE)*	*TTEC Holdings (TTEC)*

Virtual Agenda - Thursday, March 25^th - All Times EDT Click on Company Name to Open Link to Zoom Meeting
8:30-9:00	ScanSource, Inc. (SCSC)	Astec (ASTE)	Anika Therapeutics (ANIK)	*****	Kforce Inc. (KFRC)	GAMCO Investors (GBL)	NV5 (NVEE)
9:15-9:45	Vishay Precision (VPG)	Douglas Dynamics (PLOW)	InfuSystem (INFU)	Safehold Inc. (SAFE)	Computer Task Group (CTG)	Cornerstone Buidling Brands (CNR)	LSI Industries (LYTS)
10:00-10:30	InterDigital (IDCC)	U.S. Concrete Inc. (USCR)	Surmodics, Inc. (SRDX)	Mohawk Group (MWK)	Hudson Global (HSON)	*****	Unifi (UFI)
10:45-11:15	Forrester (FORR)	Alamo Group Inc (ALG)	Surgalign Spine Technologies (SRGA)	Turning Point Brands (TPB)	Allied Motion (AMOT)	Griffon Corp. (GFF)	Pitney Bowes (PBI)
11:30-12:00	*****	Commercial Vehicle Group (CVGI)	EZCORP (EZPW)	Kimball International (KBAL)	Insperity (NSP)	Arcosa, Inc. (ACA)	Carriage Services (CSV)
12:15-12:45	Daktronics, Inc. (DAKT)	STRATTEC Security Corporation (STRT)	Voyager Digital (VYGR)	Acme United Corp (ACU)	ServiceSource (SREV)	AAON Inc. (AAON)	*****
1:00-1:30	Benchmark Electronics (BHE)	Energy Recovery (ERII)	*****	Universal Electronics (UEIC)	DHI Group, Inc. (DHX)	*****	McGrath RentCorp (MGRC)
1x1s Only	*ALLETE, Inc. (ALE)*	*Enersys (ENS)*	*Materion Corp (MTRN)*	*Simpson Manufacturing (SSD)*	*UFP Industries (UFPI)*	*****	*****

*As a reminder, please join our friends at Friedman LLP (www.friedmanllp.com), who are providing conference attendees this link to its upcoming and recorded series of informative and topical webinars and publications regarding accounting, financial and tax developments, which should be of interest to corporations, investors and C-Suite executives.

About Sidoti

For over two decades, Sidoti has been a premier provider of independent securities research focused specifically on small- and micro-cap companies and the institutions that invest their securities, with most of our coverage in the $50 million - $3 billion market cap range. Our approach affords companies and institutional clients a combination of high-quality research, a small-and micro- cap focused nationwide sales effort, broad access to corporate management teams, and extensive trading support. We serve 500+ institutional clients in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., including many leading managers of portfolios with $200 million to $2 billion of AUM. Sidoti promotes meaningful interaction between issuers and investors in the small- and micro-cap space through our conferences www.sidoticonference.com and the hundreds of non-deal roadshows we host each year.

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Sidoti Events Team
212-453-7031
conference@sidoti.com

SOURCE: Sidoti & Company, LLC

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(Bloomberg) -- If there’s one core view at the heart of the investment strategy at Australia’s biggest pension fund, it’s that yields still have a long way to rise.The exodus from Treasuries will continue until 10-year yields top out at 3% or so, which would be high enough to imperil economic growth and force the Federal Reserve to respond, according to Carl Astorri, head of asset allocation at AustralianSuper Pty., which manages A$210 billion ($161 billion). He has been further trimming government bonds and shifting equities toward so-called value stocks.“Bond yields rise until they break something, until they cause pain for borrowers,” he said. “At the moment, we’re assuming that we’re entering, at the very least, a standard expansion phase of the cycle and quite possibly a kind of overheat or a boom.”Yields on 10-year Treasuries surged more than 100 basis points in six months to hit 1.75% in the current rout, a level last seen more than a year ago, on fears a stronger recovery could fuel inflation and a pullback in central bank support. With governments around the globe still adding to trillions of dollars of stimulus to ride out the pandemic, one of the biggest questions for markets is when do yields climb to levels too tempting for investors to resist switching back toward bonds.Astorri, who worked at the Bank of England early in his career before joining the financial-services industry, reckons another 100 basis points or so may be needed before that tipping point is reached.He shifted AustralianSuper’s bond portfolio to an underweight position in late 2020, almost a year after he had boosted his holdings in a successful bet that the Reserve Bank of Australia would cut rates and buy bonds. The fund sold more bonds earlier this year, and they won’t look attractive again until 10-year Treasuries are above 2.5%, he said.Until then, the fund’s A$120 billion strong equities portfolio has been shifted toward value plays such as banks which are seen benefiting from reopening economies and booming housing markets. Astorri is riding the global rotation out of frothy tech names like Netflix Inc. that had surged as economies shuttered to control the pandemic.“It’s not the sweet spot of the cycle for equities, that’s earlier on and we’ve gone through that,” he said. “They can make further but volatile progress through earnings delivery.”For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
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WeWork discloses $3.2 billion loss in 2020 as it seeks SPAC deal - source
(Reuters) -WeWork lost $3.2 billion last year, the office-sharing startup disclosed in a presentation shown to prospective investors as part of a pitch for $1 billion in investment and a stock market listing, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. The company's losses narrowed from $3.5 billion in 2019 and it plans to go public at a valuation of $9 billion including debt through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), according to a person directly briefed on the presentation that was sent out to existing and potential new investors. A SPAC is a shell company that raises funds in an IPO with the aim of acquiring a private company, which then becomes public as result of the merger.
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Canada’s Billionaire Westons Reshuffle Empire, Tighten Control
(Bloomberg) -- Canada’s billionaire Weston family is shaking up its empire, selling a historic bakery division it failed to scale up and bringing heir Galen G. Weston back at the helm of the country’s largest grocery chain.George Weston Ltd. is selling Weston Foods, cutting off a business that’d been in the family since the 1880s to focus on its supermarket and drugstore chains at Loblaw Cos., as well as its vast real estate holdings. A separate statement named Weston, Loblaw’s executive chairman, as chairman and president of the grocery chain when President Sarah Davis retires on May 6.“The sale of Weston Foods will allow me to dedicate renewed time and energy at Loblaw as we increase our momentum in both our bricks-and-mortar network, and our leadership in digital and data,” Weston, who’s also chairman and chief executive officer of George Weston, said Tuesday in the statement.The reshuffle cements his power by returning him to the dual role he previously held at Loblaw while bringing along two seasoned executives in the process. That follows another significant power gain that got little notice when announced on Christmas Eve, when he succeeded his father W. Galen Weston as the controlling shareholder of Wittington Investments Ltd., the closely held company that controls George Weston.The elder Weston’s wealth is estimated at about $10 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The younger Weston had previously described his father’s health as “not good” in a blog post last year. That post also announced the end of a temporary pandemic pay bump to employees at its supermarkets and pharmacies -- a move that triggered immediate backlash.Shares of Toronto-based George Weston surged 5.3% to C$107.86 at 2:31 p.m. trading in Toronto, its biggest jump since April. Loblaw shares also rose 3.5% to C$69.32, its highest since October. Loblaw’s stock has lagged Canada’s S&P/TSX consumer staples index in the past year, despite a revenue jump during the pandemic.George Weston’s most valuable asset is its 54% stake in Loblaw. It also owns 17% of Choice Properties REIT, the country’s biggest real estate trust by market value, which owns retail properties and residential developments.Loblaw’s management changes see former Metro Inc. executive Robert Sawyer joining as chief operating officer and Chief Financial Officer Darren Myers departing, with his role taken on by George Weston’s President and CFO Richard Dufresne.The changes “signal what is likely to be a heightened focus on operational efficiency and productivity, which has been somewhat lacking,” RBC Capital Markets analyst Irene Nattel said in a note to investors.Unlocking PotentialGeorge Weston hired Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Houlihan Lokey Inc. to sell Weston Foods, which makes bread, doughnuts and other baked goods under a variety of brands including Wonder Bread. Proceeds will likely be returned to shareholders through stock buybacks over time, according to the company statement.George Weston had sought ways to make the food division larger and was said last July to be exploring an acquisition of ailing Swiss baking company Aryzta AG.“We spent last year exploring opportunities to create a step change in Weston Foods’ scale that would allow it to become a truly meaningful part of GWL value,” Weston said Tuesday on a conference call with analysts. “But in the end we did not find the right opportunity. Instead, it’s now clear that pursuing a sale represents the best way to unlock Weston Foods’ potential.”Weston Foods had revenue of C$2.1 billion ($1.7 billion) last year, the company said. It contributes about 4% of George Weston’s revenue, a Scotia Capital analyst estimated in December. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization were C$200 million last year.“It really hasn’t been growing and is not a overwhelming strategic fit,” said Chris Kerlow, a portfolio manager at Richardson Wealth in Toronto who owns George Weston and Loblaw shares on behalf of clients. “Narrowing their focus and adding cash to balance sheet improves my outlook.”(Adds analyst comment, details on management shuffle and stock performance.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
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Reuters
GameStop loses second senior exec as shakeup deepens
This is the second executive departure at GameStop since it tapped Cohen to spearhead a transition to e-commerce for the mall-based retailer. Hopes that shift could revive results helped fueled a massive rally in GameStop's shares in January although the social-media propelled surge is widely seen as having become unhinged from fundamentals. Hamlin, who had previously served as the company's chief marketing officer, had been in his current position since June 2019.
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Analysis: Electric shock - German auto stocks get a new lease of life
Volkswagen and BMW's plans to grab market share in the fast-growing electric car market and challenge Tesla could shift the dial for their cheaply priced shares. A deadline set by many countries to go carbon-free by 2050 has led to rising adoption of zero-emission vehicles and Tesla has been at the forefront of this transformation, selling long-range battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Despite a recent pullback, its stock has soared 650% in the last year, helped also by a cult following for CEO Elon Musk.
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