Q4 Screen for attractive Polish stocks
Poland is a great place for hunting micro-caps. Today, we will not go in large depth on individual companies, but we will overlook this hunting ground for potential multi-bagger candidates, taking 5 steps:
Narrow down for what we are looking for quantitatively
Remove several groups of stocks for Qualitative reasons
Add back amazing growth stocks even if P/E or ROE doesn’t fit yet
Show the 16 most interesting Polish stocks for the moment
Review the most interesting 10 in a preliminary 1 page pitch
Poland is a great place for investing, because it has an amazing economy, a low cost of being public (resulting in a high amount of companies) and valuations are low as international investors are only just finding their way to the country.
There’s over 700 listed companies in Poland. I include only 545 today, having removed some “blacklisted” companies like CDA and Gamivo.
Just under 300 of these are profitable. Most are small-caps:
Filtering out the more expensive ones (P/E >15), and focusing on the growth companies, 31 remain:
I then removed the cyclicals, gaming companies, too hard to understand businesses, too illiquid companies, too lumpy companies… all to check if we can find some cheap, growing easy to understand businesses in this big sea of Polish stocks…
By the way here are some “too illiquid companies” I removed:
DGA, Mostozal plock, Eco5tech, Ampli, Effect capital group, Ultimate games Hub tech, G-energy, Quantum RRH, Verbum, Talex, ATM grupa, Genomed, Examobile, Sakana, Editel, Ekipa, Kancelaria, Prawna-Inkaso, Monnari, Otmuchow, Aqua.
What remained was 13 growing, cheap, liquid companies I think are interesting to consider investing in:
While researching, I like to look at the longer term success of each of these, as a pragmatic way to avoid one-hit wonders and find something durable that will do well for a long time, but is currently undervalued.
This is why I put together a longer term Revenue and Profit chart for the ones I found most interesting here, and some comments on what I found one each of them:
This is the start of research, so as always take it with a grain of salt. I will get back with a longer pitch (as done in Feb 2025 for BSH) on any I like in particular as my research progresses.
Here’s the 11 I like, in the order of how well I know them. I didn’t include Oponeo and Mostozal Zabre here because I don’t know them well enough yet.
As my research progresses, I may buy/sell some of them. If you like any in particular or have questions, let me know in the chat/Discord.
1. Atrem
2. BSH
3. Quercus