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Huron Consulting Group: Why is the Market Discounting?

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Huron Consulting Group, Inc. (NSQ:HURN) is a global business services market and denotes businesses which offers business-related solutions to firms. Despite having a market cap close to $1 B it has almost no coverage (our favorite type of security).

The company officially has five analysts covering it, but there is only one brokerage report out on Huron Consulting Group, Inc. (NSQ:HURN) in 2013.

HURN has increased its ROE/ROA etc. over the past several years, while its debt has gone down and cash reserves have gone up.  On a comparative basis the company has among the lowest P/Es, P/B etc. despite improving fundamentals.

In one example, during last quarter’s call, HURN made comments on its expectations for 2013. Management expected mid to high single digit...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic Park NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal ID. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: Most of my portfolio is in I mostly purchase broad-based ETFs, mutual funds or individual bonds - I do this for performance reasons and to avoid any potential conflict of interest or occasional receipt of insider information. I will disclose if I have a stake in any company, but in general I have few stocks and I avoid any trading especially around topics I am covering.