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Reasons to buy HYPD
1. HYPD is well positioned to grow its business substantially to achieve a niche market dominance.
2. HYPD opened up access to significant and recurring long-term revenue streams
3. HYPD’s- SCS acquisition represents an ideal fit...synergy will offer an industry superior solution for the oil and gas industry exploration process...
4. HYPD’s Revenue potential estimated to exceed $25 million per year for fiscal year 2003.
5. HYPD has brand new tier 1 data facility that is cost effective for companies to outsource.
6. HYPD has an AT&T Dedicated Entrance facility. AT&T laid fiber to HYPD’S data center that can be scaled to an OC48 (Huge broadband capacity).
SYMBOL: HYPD
SHARES OUTSTANDING: 15.7mm
FLOAT (est.): 6.1mm
52 WEEK HIGH/LOW: 1.34 - .25
SHORT TERM PRICE PROJ.: $1.95
12 MONTH PRICE PROJ.: $4.30
7. HYPD is an Intel Premium Provider - licensed to sell the highest-level processors.
8. HYPD is a Great Plains and Microsoft Solution Provider.
9. HYPD is a Computer Associates partner
10. New management team with proven track record of business success.
11. HYPD’s business model is targeted on obtaining recurring revenue streams
INVESTMENT SUMMARY
HYPD is a premier provider of comprehensive integrated technology services (ITSP) and solutions for a client base in the rapidly growing ITSP marketplace for small-to-medium sized businesses.
HYPD is capable of handling a wide range of its clients’ unique ITSP needs, with services ranging from conventional IT services to enterprise migration and comprehensive IT HyperSource solutions (outsourcing all of a client’s e-business needs). HYPD has positioned its future business strategy around the development of uniquely designed Integrated Technology Centers (ITCs), which will offer client companies comprehensive bundled ITSP services and solutions integrated with its state of the art facilities. The first Houston based ITC has recently begun operations, and is offering its clients a full and expansive range of outsourced IT and back-office services. HYPD’s first ITC is designed around an AT&T Dedicated Entrance Facility with on-net redundant fiber provisioning offering scalable bandwidth up to an OC-48 and beyond. This comprehensive Tier-1 hosting center enables HYPD to offer clients complete end-to-end IT services in a fully redundant and seamless environment. Through recently developed Hyperserve connection products, HYPD has been able to improve the functionality of its services by offering clients remote server appliances that connect to the ITC. Bolstered by strategic alliances and strong working relationships with major players in technology and telecommunications, including Microsoft, Intel, AT&T, and Great Plains, HYPD has demonstrated a superior ability to cater to the unique needs and limitations of small-to-medium sized businesses, effectively creating a business model that partners HYPDS’ success with that of its clients. Utilizing this innovative approach, HYPD should be able to grow its business in conjunction with client business growth, and position itself as the ITSP provider of choice for an emerging market of small and mid sized companies. Within the Houston region, and with this small and mid sized target market, HYPD is well positioned to grow its business substantially over the near to intermediate term and achieve niche market dominance within an appreciable time period.
HYPD has recently aimed its full-service IT hosting business model towards the unique needs and growth strategies of small to medium-sized businesses, a rapidly growing market that is relatively undeserved by major IT service providers such as Level 3, UUNet, and Sprint.
HYPD has based this approach around the potentially lucrative, long-term revenue streams afforded through association with growing companies. For example, HYPD has recently initiated long-term Hypersource IT hosting arrangements with Eagle Wireless International and Premiere Media Group. Eagle Wireless is a leading supplier of broadband wired and wireless equipment and services for a variety of markets, including the Internet, digital set-top boxes, and wireless convergence products, and is anticipated to reach national market penetration within the next several years. As the client company grows its business over the next several years, the highly scalable nature of the Hyperdynamics’ IT hosting model will enable the Company to offer additional needed services readily while retaining high margins. By being able to refine and scale up client IT services in a quick time period, and for minimal additional expenses, HYPD has opened up access to significant and recurring long-term revenue streams from smaller and mid-sized business clients. Moreover, HYPD offers client companies an unprecedented degree of personalized attention and customization, when compared to major national ITSP providers.
The infrastructure of HYPD’S first ITC, designed to support end-to-end ITSP services can also be leveraged for easy and smart diversification. With its recent acquisition of Seacon Computer Systems, Inc. (SCS), HYPD has been able to enter the vertical seismic data management market. Thus, in addition to its horizontal industry approach for ITSP services, new and innovative vertically oriented business opportunities offering diversified revenue streams are coming to HYPD.
For example, SCS is a seismic data management company that has developed a unique and cost saving method for transferring seismic and geologic data for oil and gas companies on 8mm and 9mm magnetic tapes to state of the art DVD (optical) storage. The current methods of storing this type of data on magnetic tapes are time consuming, prohibitively expensive, outdated (the technology is over 40 years old), and inefficient. SCS will enable clients in the expanding oil and gas industry to migrate the estimated 3 billion magnetic tapes that degrade in 8-20 years to DVD storage, with an expected lifespan of over 50 years, at a cheaper price point and with easy accessibility. The SCS acquisition, moreover, provides an ideal strategic fit to the core data center business of HYPD, and opens up significant and highly lucrative revenue streams. SCS will derive revenues from three principal sources: (1) conversion of existing tapes to superior DVD storage technologies; (2) accessing DVD data through HYPD’s ITC facility; and (3) a vertical ASP approach to remote seismic interpretation processing of data through the Houston ITC using technical and hardware support from Intel. In addition to opening up an innovative and new business through the SCS acquisition, HYPD believes that it will be able to apply this type of vertical ASP approach towards other target industries, such as insurance services, either through additional acquisitions or joint ventures.
HYPD’s projected revenue and business growth will be largely driven by several principal catalysts, including: (1) continuing to implement its full service IT hosting solution, Hypersource, through the Houston-based, state-of-the-art Integrated Technology Center and future planned ITC’s in regional markets; (2) orienting its ITSP solutions and services towards the unique needs of expanding small-and-medium sized businesses; (3) entering into long-term, recurring revenue contracts by growing with its clients, and providing additional services at higher margins as these client businesses expand; (4) opening up new and lucrative revenue streams through its subsidiary SCS, and integrating this business opportunity through internal synergies with its core IT hosting and services business; and (5) positioning itself within a competitively underserved marketplace for ITSP services and products for small and mid-sized business clients.
VALUATION
Consolidation within the ITSP industry has been a consistent theme within the past several years. Major ITSP hosting players have been acquired in a series of recognizable transactions. Notable among these has been the acquisition of Verio by NTT, and the acquisition of Digex by WorldCom. Within the remaining players in the IT hosting industry, remaining players have been devastated by the decline in valuations accorded, based on consistently increasing earnings deficits and increased cost of services provided. In addition, these players have suffered due to aggressive acquisition strategies undertaken during the previous two years that have not proven out as significant growth catalysts and increased debt structures. By contrast, HYPD has pursued a conservative growth strategy with limited acquisitions carefully calculated to directly and immediately benefit aggregate revenues and earnings.
Relative to comparative companies within the ITSP industry, HYPD could realize superior growth in business and earnings over the near-to-intermediate term period. A grouping of comparable companies within this sector currently trades at an average price to sales multiple of 2.70 X. On a forward looking basis, using FY 2003 revenue and earnings estimates for the Company (fiscal year 2003 starts July 1,2002), this represents roughly a 8-fold premium to current trading levels. Thus, when applying the comparative grouping’s average price to earnings and price to revenue multiples to HYPD we can arrive at a relative valuation of $4.30 per share over the next 12 months.
SUMMARY
Aggressive investors looking for above-average return potential on a portion of their investment capital should give HYPD a serious look. Management of the Company, headed by CEO Kent Watts, are highly talented and educated in their technical areas. We believe HYPD has assembled an astute, goal oriented, sophisticated team committed to HYPD becoming very, very successful. Investors at current levels may be rewarded in the short term, and beyond, as HYPD’S business plan is executed. HYPD may very well be one of the stock market’s best secrets!
Disclaimer:
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