Angie’s List (ANGI, Financial) is a nationally-based, local services review provider and marketplace. The business, which began as a consumer pay subscription service, has been progressively lightening the load on subscribers and shifting the cost of the model to advertising service providers. This transition has caused a flattening of top-line growth. The stock appreciated in the fourth quarter when IAC/InterActiveCorp (a company we have owned in the past) made an opportunistic cash offer to buy Angie’s List for slightly less than $9 per share. We felt the offer undervalued Angie’s business and precluded any opportunity to participate in the upside of the combined entity. The Market apparently agreed, and Angie’s stock price traded through the offer price to about $11 a share. We sold our position as the stock price exceeded our revised estimate of business value.
From the Weitz Funds' Hickory Fund shareholder letter for fourth quarter 2015.
