RMD - ResMed Inc.

[Dutchy3]

The share split looks a little concerning on this chart and needs to be viewed in context.

I've posted a line chart this time as the gaps that appear in the candlestick don't do the recent price action justice.

There is almost an absence of black candles since the split and the future for this one looks rosy.

 

[Dutchy3]

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Very few black candles on this one with some nice gap ups. Time to lead up again

 

[GreatPig]

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Nicely up 7% odd this morning as I type.

Cheers,
GP

[I hold]

 

[pacer]

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It's been a while since a post was laid here......Looks like a breakout to me....listed in forbes as #86 in the top 100 small companies, and the ann report is not to shabby...profits up 40 odd % and in a good uptrend cycle over the years.....does it have any more in it?......Yeah ok I just bought 2000 today.....dyor

 

[Sean K]

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Could be. Damn it! I sold this at $5.40 as I was getting frustrated with it and worried about US economy.....

 

[blueroo]

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Frustrating alright! I got stopped out last month at $5.22 and was rather glad to be rid of them at the time.

 

[pacer]

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Well...5% up today is good for me...sorry to hear you guys missed it....hoping there's more in it, and I was worried it had stalled for good the other day when someone tried to pull it up.....good luck guys....

 

[Busylion]

ResMed as predicted its growth will double within four years

Sleep disorder and equipment manufacturer ResMed Inc has predicted its growth will double within four years as it helps people get a better night's sleep.

ResMed, which is based in Australia and the US, creates personal breathing devices that help people who have sleeping disorders.

Chief executive and founder Peter Farrell said on Sunday ResMed had only entered into three per cent of the US market and almost two per cent of the rest of the world.

He predicted growth of 20 per cent a year, doubling within four years.

"It's a marathon and we're just lacing up our shoes," he told Sky News Sunday Business.

"Could we do better? Maybe. It takes a while to get traction. But our limit to growth is our ability."

In November, ResMed posted a net income of $US24.99 million ($A32.47 million) for the September quarter, compared with $US16.4 million ($A21.03 million) in the previous corresponding quarter.

Revenue for the quarter was $US163.6 million ($A209.78 million) - up 29 per cent.

ResMed said the result was boosted by a 34 per cent sales increase in the US, and 23 per cent in the rest of the world.

Mr Farrell, the founding chairman of Resmed, which is now having to employ an additional 500 staff a year, said the company had tapped only a small proportion of the market for sleep devices.

He said sleeping disorders were a major problem for three out of 10 adults and left untreated could lead to serious illnesses including heart disease.

He said the disorders, which start with snoring, were related to hypertension.

"It wasn't even a horse in the race a few years ago," he said.

"Hypertension is the number one cause of heart disease and the number one killer, the number two is cancer, the number three killer is stroke.

"Hypertension is the number one cause of stroke. So one can argue that left untreated it's the number one and the number three causes of death in the Western world.

"Occupational health could well be the biggest of them all."

Mr Farrell said ResMed's program - Sleep for a Healthy Life - basically helped people get a better sleep and stopped life threatening illnesses from developing.

© 2007 AAP

 

[Busylion]

Market awake to ResMed's value

Market awake to ResMed's value

ResMed is on top of the game as doctors finally come to grips with the severe consequences of sleep disorders writes Robert Gottliebsen:

January 13, 2007
THE sleep disorder market is the biggest untapped medical market in the world.
It starts with snoring and sleep apnoea but it extends to heart attacks, diabetes, impotence, occupational health, obstetrics and many other areas.
Australian-based ResMed is the global leader in this market and is almost certainly one of Australia's premier growth stocks among the top 50 companies.

Only ABC Learning would rival it among the non-resource stocks.

ResMed is forecasting 20 per cent growth into the foreseeable future but it has been growing at an average annual rate of 32 per cent for 10 years.

The company's internal targets are closer to past performance.

Any company with turnover of around $1 billion growing at more than 20 per cent a year has a significant management challenge.

The market is backing ResMed management to deliver.

Excluding stock-based compensation, restructuring and acquisition expenses, the company earned $US1.42 a share in 2005-06 or $1.82 based on a US78c exchange rate.

Three years of 25 per cent growth would take earnings per share to about $3.50 and a 30 per cent growth rate would lift earnings to about $4.

That's why the stock is priced around $63 or a price-earnings ratio of 35.

If you use official US accounting standards, earnings per share fall to $US1.16 or $1.49, which takes the PE ratio above 40.

If anything goes wrong with a stock like ResMed over the next three years, the price will be severely punished.

ResMed and the US company Respironics each have about 40 per cent of the global sleep market. But ResMed has been growing its sleep business at twice the rate of the US company.

ResMed founding chairman and CEO Peter Farrell explains why the potential market for sleep disorder treatment is so huge.

He believes that about one in three or four people in the Western world have sleep disorders, of which the main disorder is obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), which is the No1 cause of hypertension.

Hypertension is the main cause of two of the top three Western world killer illnesses - heart failure and stroke.

But it has also been discovered that sleep disorder problems exist in a large number of type 2 diabetes sufferers. Sleep disorders also play a role in obstetric and gynaecology problems.

Farrell says that although ResMed has achieved enormous growth rates, the potential is huge because the medical profession is only just waking up to the role of sleep disorders in so many of their patients' illnesses.

The sleep market starts with the "simple" problem of snoring.

Farrell says: "The problem is that if you are 'just a snorer', it is your bed partner that suffers and it probably breaks up more marriages than infidelity and financial issues.

"And we can fix it. Unfortunately, there is an appalling lack of education about sleep disordered breathing and obstructive sleep apnoea in medical schools.

"As a consequence, physicians often incorrectly refer patients with sleep disorders to urologists (study of urine), gastroenterologists (stomach), cardiologists (heart), neurologists (headaches), psychiatrists (personal), and so on, without any appreciation of the underlying sleep disorder pathology."

In addition, in the US the market for sleep disorder treatments is greatly slowed because a simple treatment process is made much more complex by elaborate testing bureaucracies.

Farrell says that apart from the lack of education in medical schools, one of the reasons the profession has been so slow to recognise the role of sleep disorders in so many killer illnesses is that "medicine stops when the lights go out".

"Think of a hospital," he says. "You've got the least qualified staff volunteering to work all night. And at night, there is the lowest number of staff to patients. The guy (just) sits there with a book."

A buzzer goes off. He goes down and fixes the drip. He goes back to the book. There is no observation.

"It is a bit like Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Watson," Farrell says. "Doctor Watson, you see but you don't observe. There is no observation at night.

"It is all 'I'll see you in the morning'."

ResMed is working to change medical attitudes, but it is a slow process.

It has about 4 million patients being treated around the world and it sells about 80,000 breathing devices and 360,000 masks each month.

The devices vary from a standard $1000 unit to sophisticated ventilators that closely measure breathing for patients with severe heart problems. Margins on the standard lower-priced units are low, but are much higher once more sophisticated equipment is used.

Most patients need new masks regularly, so the company has a substantial annuity income and the mask business is high-margin.

And because the cause of people's illness is being curbed, their lives are being extended and so the ResMed annuity stream is a long-term one.

If there is a big rise in the usage of sleep disorder treatments, then not only will ResMed enjoy initial income from the sale of devices but its annuity stream will underwrite a higher level of long-term earnings.

And to further assist annuity streams, many of the new ResMed masks actually trigger a re-ordering process once they are near the end of their life.

ResMed is working in the US to simplify its apparatus and therefore widen the market.

It has been helped by the US private trucking giant Schneider, which has about 15,000 drivers.

Chief executive Chris Lofgren went on a ResMed machine and saw the benefits. Now 1000 of his truck drivers have had their sleep disorders eliminated by ResMed machines. Lofgren has told them: "If you don't use your machine, go find another job."

Penetrating the US occupational health and safety market will be a long process, but the Schneider policy was a big breakthrough and if, longer-term, Schneider health problems are substantially reduced, it will help open the US market.

What can go wrong with ResMed? Obviously, the current dramatic results linking sleep disorders to so many killer illnesses must not be contradicted by later findings and the high machine safety record must be maintained.

It is remarkable that so few companies compete in this market.

To protect its market leadership, ResMed has 1000 patents existing or in progress and has effectively established a spider web of patents so that if a patent is about to expire, the company has intellectual property process to follow through.

The company believes this protects its position, but obviously if a new sleep disorder treatment breakthrough was made by a rival it would affect its growth, although big new developments usually take time.

ResMed spends about 6 per cent of its revenue on research and has a strong pipeline of new products to improve sleep treatments and develop new markets.

The pains of growth won't be easy to manage. The company recently spent $250 million building a factory in Sydney and now thinks it probably should have spent four times that, given the growth rate.

Because of the growth rate required by the market, management succession will be important.

It is likely that in the next year or two Farrell will hand over the CEO reins to his No2, Kieran Gallahue, but he will remain as founding chairman.

Two years ago Gallahue was promoted to president of ResMed Global, assuming responsibility for global operations, new business development and product innovation, in preparation for a future CEO handover.

 

[bigt]

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..has to be positive for SOM too, in the same business...may start a few investors digging around for good value...atm SOM appears just that.

 

[TheRage]

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..has to be positive for SOM too, in the same business...may start a few investors digging around for good value...atm SOM appears just that.

Not really the same business. SOM does mouth appliances which by value are very small compared to CPAP machines and BiPAP offered by RESMED. These machines can cost as much as $1500 each compared with a very cheap mouth appliance which is essentially a mouth gaurd.

 

[Sean K]

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Nice breakout last week. I sold at $5.40.

 

[bigt]

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Agreed, TheRage, though at a higher level they are in the same business, sleep disorders...though they do have products at both ends of the spectrum...which is more effective, $ for $? Which has the biggest mass market appeal? Anyway, both are seemingly good products for a serious medical condition.

 

[chops_a_must]

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It's a very interesting point for RMD chart wise. Will it bounce or dive? I'm picking a dive as the directors have been selling this one.

 

[adobee]

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I have been watching RMD for a while there appears to be alot of volume in the last few days as it turns upward from a downward spiral following a recall and large lose in comparison to previous earnings.

 

[Sean K]

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I have been watching RMD for a while there appears to be alot of volume in the last few days as it turns upward from a downward spiral following a recall and large lose in comparison to previous earnings.

I'm not sure about 'turned upward' adobee. Looks like around $5.00 might be a little support. Breaking $5.50, might be the first sign of it having 'turned', but doesn't look out of the woods yet. I think $US is effecting it too.

 

[adobee]

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RMD is staying reasonable resistant against the large drops in share prices today. Its 4th Quarter and fiscal year end earnings are due out on 8th August
If they have resolved all the problems and costs from the recall of there product this could have a substanial turn around..

 

[RM8]

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Yeah! Only one of 3 on my considerable watchlist showing green.

It's been doing well the last week considering the rest of the market.

 

[adobee]

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I am going to watch the volume on this carefully I am thinking of entry on Wednesday pre results coming out..

 

[vishalt]

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yeah this is looking good, i'm jumping in on a dip with a stop below $5

something really needs to be done about this "too short" crap, honestly.. :/