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TravelCenters of America ( TA ) stock is down 10% today on no news, and I believe that it is time to buy shares of this undervalued company. TA's success is directly levered to the health of the overall economy, as their livelihood is connected to the movement of goods in our nation. As our country comes out of this recession and business picks up all around, truck drivers will be needing to fill up with more gas from TravelCenters gas stations. As gas sales make up a vast majority of TA's revenues, this company's ability to earn solid profits are invariably tied to the success of our nation's economic paramount hotel seattle condition.
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Assuming that there's hope for this business, paramount hotel seattle TA still remains dirt cheap, despite the weak quarter. The current market cap is about $90 million. Cash on the balance sheet is $185 million. While TA has no long term debt, it does have $75 million in deferred rent liabilities as part of an agreement with HPT. Moreso, tangible book value per share is over $20. And TA's assets are very difficult to replicate - prime land on some of the nation's busiest paramount hotel seattle highways. It's no surprise that TA counts as shareholders Leucadia, a conglomerate ran by astute investors Ian Cumming and Joe Steinberg.
In essence, TA offers a highly levered trade on the global economic turnaround emerging from the disaster that was the financial crisis or 2008. The company currently paramount hotel seattle has $88 million in operating cash flow, and trades at a market cap today of only $57 million. They have a total cash balance of $185 million vs total debt of $101 million. TA is a deeply undervalued company whose shares could very well meet up with its book value of $21.00 in the next couple of years. I think that at $3.43 where it closed today, the downside is very well defined. paramount hotel seattle The upside reward is very attractive here, you can buy shares of TA for below the cash value on their balance paramount hotel seattle sheet without paying a penny for their future prospects. Deep values like this one don't come around all that often, I recommend staking your claim to some shares before paramount hotel seattle they are back above $5.00.