Arnold Van Den Berg's Undervalued Stocks Trading At Low P/E

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Jun 23, 2015

Arnold Van Den Berg (Trades, Portfolio) is a value investor with 43 years of industry experience and founder of $2 billion firm Century Management. The company closely align their interests with those of their clients.

His portfolio is composed of 61 stocks, and five have been bought during the last quarter. Total value of the portfolio is $710 million with 15% Q/Q Turnover.

The following are the most undervalued stocks on his portfolio that are even trading at a very cheap P/E ratio.

Atwood Oceanics Inc (ATW)

He bought ATW in 2014Q2 for the first time, and now he is holding 796,115 shares at an average price of $44.80/share that is giving him a loss of 38%.

ATW is an offshore drilling contractor, engaged in drilling and completion of exploratory and developmental oil and gas wells and has a market cap of $1.79B.

ATW is trading with a trailing 12-month P/E multiple of 5.73 and an estimated forward P/E multiple of 5.77. The stock has an estimated 10 year annual rose of 82%. The stock has been as high as $53.90 and as low as $26.12 in the last 52 weeks and its 200-day moving average is $33.11.

The DCF model gives a fair value of $154.58 that put the stock as undervalued and with a margin of safety of 82% at current prices. The Peter Lynch earnings line fair value is $75.8 that put the stock still undervalued but with a smaller margin of safety.

First Pacific Advisors (Trades, Portfolio) is the main guru holding ATW with 2,671,500 shares (4.13% of shares outstanding, or 0.62% of total assets of his portfolio. Arnold Van Den Berg is the fourth-largest holder of the stock with 1.11% of shares outstanding held.

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CBI)

The investor bought CBI in 2014Q3 for the first time, and now he is holding 708,060 shares at an average price of $54.35/share that so far did not give him any return.

CBI provides conceptual design, technology, engineering, procurement, fabrication, modularization, construction, commissioning, maintenance, program management and environmental services to customers in the energy infrastructure market throughout the world and is a provider of diversified government services and has a market cap of $5.77 billion.

CBI is trading with a trailing 12-month P/E multiple of 9.96 and an estimated forward P/E multiple of 8.90. The stock has an estimated 10-year annual rose of 144% and since the last February looks like the stock started a new strong upward trend.

The stock has been as high as $72.02 and as low as $32.16 in the last 52 weeks and its 200-day moving average is $49.

The DCF model gives a fair value of $79.36 that put the stock as undervalued and with a margin of safety of 33% at current prices. The Peter Lynch earnings line is set to almost the same fair price of $77.8.

Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio) is the main guru holding CBI with 10,701,110 shares (9.85 % of shares outstanding, or 0.49% of total assets of his portfolio). Arnold Van Den Berg (Trades, Portfolio) holds the 0.65% of shares outstanding that is the 4.91% of his total assets.

Reading International Inc (RDI)

The investor bought RDI in 2013Q4 for the first time, and now he is holding 25,875 shares at an average price of $6.89/share that is giving him a total return of 83%.

RDI is a diversified company engaged in the development, ownership and operation of entertainment and real property assets and has a market cap of $311.75M.

RDI is trading with a trailing 12 month P/E multiple of 10.78 and an estimated forward P/E multiple of 9.38. The stock has an estimated 10-year rose of 250%.

The stock has been as high as $14.45 and as low as $7.82 in the last 52 weeks and its 200-day moving average is $11.90.

The DCF model gives a fair value of $18.14 that put the stock as undervalued and with a margin of safety of 26% at current prices. The Peter Lynch earnings line fair value gives (almost) the same result ($17.4).

Jim Simons (Trades, Portfolio) is the main guru holding RDI with 629,100 shares (2.70% of shares outstanding, or 0.02% of total assets of his portfolio. Arnold Van Den Berg is the fourth largest holder of the stock and holds 0.08% of outstanding shares.

Chase Corp (CCF)

The investor bought CCF for the first time during the last quarter (2015Q1) and is now he is holding 13,356 shares at an average price of $39.29/share that is giving him a total return of 4%.

CCF is organized into two operating segments, an Industrial Materials segment and a Construction Materials segment. The basis for its segmentation is distinguished by the nature of the products it manufactures and how they are delivered to their respective markets. It has a market cap of $375.76 million.

CCF is trading with a trailing 12 month P/E multiple of 15.61 and an estimated forward P/E multiple of 11.07. The stock has an estimated 10-year annual rose of 491%.

The stock has been as high as $44.25 and as low as $29.70 in the last 52 weeks and its 200 days average price has been $37.

The DCF model, gives a fair value of $47.19 that put the stock as undervalued and with a margin of safety of 18% at current prices. The Peter Lynch earnings line fair value is $39.8.

Chuck Royce (Trades, Portfolio) is the main guru holding CCF with 738,974 shares (8.05% of shares outstanding, or 0.12% of total assets of his portfolio. Arnold Van Den Berg (Trades, Portfolio) holds 0.15% of shares outstanding that is the 0.08% of his total assets.