Unilife: Financials An Absolute And Utter Disaster

Unilife, Or: When A “Growth” Pure-Play Isn’t A Smart Play by Jordan S. Terry, Managing Director Stone Street Advisors LLC

I come from the school of fundamental value analysis/investing. So when a client asked me to look into Unilife Corp (NASDAQ:UNIS) a few weeks ago, naturally, my first reaction was to look at their SEC filings and financial statements. It became immediately clear (as it should to anyone who’s spent more than 60 seconds looking) that this was not a company on which one could perform a discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation or any other traditional fundamental valuation, since their financials are an absolute and utter disaster of the highest order. DCF won’t work –...