Ennis, Inc. (EBF)

High Professional Opinion and Price Target

Small cap value with insider nibbling. Positioned to benefit from uptrend in the business cycle.

Ennis has kept its same $.155 quarterly dividend since October 1996 and has kept its dividend consistent through a number of up and down markets.

This makes a good company, selling below book value yielding 8.1%... a good way to wait for the upswing.

What's not to like? It's a (mostly) financially healthy company selling below book value, solid dividend history, low P/E ratio, *LOW* debt-equity ratio.

Price to cash flow is concerning, but the below-book value share price compensates for the risk.

This company is on sale! Buy, hold, profit.

I used the following screen:
CAPS rating of 4-5
P/E < 10
EPS > .05
Price to Book <1
Div. Yield > 5%

Payout ratio at 38% is reasonable. CAPS community seems to rate management highly.

Ennis Inc. sells business forms and other business products. Its products include snap sets, continuous forms, laser cut sheets, tags, labels, integrated products, jumbo rolls, and pressure sensitive products.
It also sells business apparel and other business related products. This is yet another company with a good management team and a trustworthy amount of inside ownership. This is Lynchian company. It's boring, hardly any analysts on Wall Street are covering at the moment, and as I write this pitch, it's relatively unknown to the CAPS community. It sells products that every business needs and makes money by selling those products.
Go long,
Fool On!!!

5 Star/Small cap/Pays dividend

watching

Office Supply play - I just like the potential here

Just want to keep my eye on it.

Well managed company with a good dividend. Acquisition strategy in the printing market consistently produces results. Stock temporarily down because of recent earnings miss.

Ennis Inc. is a small, well run, and under followed company. The company has good cash flow, low debt, and a pretty nice dividend. This is a good growth stock selling at a value price.

I think Ennis will easily be a 2 or 3 bagger in the next 5 years.

My price target for Ennis is about $28-$29 a share.

Oversold today on short term profit pullback - good long term potential, attractive buy at $25.50

specialty forms maker - slow but steady - up over 11% ytd

small company producing steady returns

T-shirts and business forms? May seem improbable, but the valuation is reasonable, pays dividends and delivers growth. What's not to like?

Conservative management has grown earnings through cost management and strategic acquisitions. They don't overpay for a business. The forms industry is slowly contracting with increased electronic processing/transactions; however, it is likely we will see tariffs on Chinese goods which would benefit the Alstyle growth.