{"id":2125,"date":"2010-07-24T13:25:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2010-07-24T13:25:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:25:58","slug":"wunderlich-coverage-on-ener1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/2010\/07\/24\/wunderlich-coverage-on-ener1\/","title":{"rendered":"Wunderlich Coverage on Ener1 Ignores Key Partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Wunderlich Securities initiated coverage on Ener1, Inc. (HEV) with a hold rating. HEV designs, develops, and manufactures rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and battery systems for energy storage (from Yahoo! Finance profile<\/a>). These batteries are used in electric vehicles. Eric Savtiz’s Tech Trader Daily covered the coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wunderlich’s main points are:<\/p>\n

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  1. HEV is a very risky investment given the high cost of the technology infrastructure to support lithium ion batteries and the large cost reductions required to gain significant market penetration.\n
  2. HEV is a new market entrant competing against an established and entrenched competitor in Johnson Controls (JCI): “…only Johnson Controls (JCI) has a record of serving the auto industry or has the infrastructure in place to service it.”\n<\/ol>\n

    OK. Point taken on the costs. But, one small problem with the second point: HEV also has an established record of serving the automotive industry. In fact, you can read about it from HEV’s website<\/a> and browsing the web for a few minutes:<\/p>\n

    “EnerDel was formed in 2004 through a collaboration of industry leaders: Ener1, Delphi Corporation and Itochu Corporation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    General Motors created Delphi in 1994<\/a>. Delphi just happens to be a major player in the automotive components industry with over 140,000 employees<\/a>, and 100 years of automotive history<\/a>. This is quite comparable to JCI’s 130,000 employees and origins dating back to 1885<\/a>. Itochu started 150 years ago in Japan as a linen trader<\/a> and has grown into a major industrial conglomerate. In 1971, it was involved in contract negotiations between General Motors and Isuzu Motors. Itochu’s Energy, Metals, and Minerals company<\/a> spans the globe from the Caspian Sea to Australia to Brazil. In other words, HEV could do a lot worse than its present partners.<\/p>\n

    Moreover, HEV is the biggest shareholder in, and a close partner with, Think, a company that has manufactured electric vehicles in Europe for 19 years<\/a>. Ford Motor company was even a major investor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    While HEV is not guaranteed to survive the rigors of the alternative energy industry, it is not the overwhelmed “johnny-come-lately” as Wunderlich appears to claim.<\/p>\n

    (Interesting side note – at the same time of this coverage, HEV appointed Bruce Curtis, former Vice President of Program Development at First Solar (FSLR), global President HEV’s grid storage business<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

    Given Friday’s 11% pop, HEV is already just 8% away from Wunderlich’s $3.50 price target. It is also trading just above its all-time lows set less than a year after going public in 2008.<\/p>\n


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    Weekly chart of HEV's trials and tribulations as a publicly traded company<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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    {Thanks again to a friend of mine for bringing this story to my attention}<\/p>\n

    Be careful out there!<\/p>\n

    Full disclosure: no positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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