. TVK got my attention and prompted me to profile it in this article because, according to the students, the stock is valued by the markets as a Ben Graham stock when in fact the stock should be viewed more like a Buffett-like stock.
TVK’s products and operations, however, fall in a subset of the industrial goods industry which is known as “heavy industry.” TVK is a diversified industrial company that sells goods and services to a variety of end markets, manufacturing home heating products, propane, anhydrous ammonia and natural gas liquids transport vehicles and storage vessels, energy processing equipment and fibreglass storage tanks.
TVK’s chief executive, Dustin Haw, has a PhD in physics and a CFA. His tenure at TVK indicates that he is a competent operational leader for the firm and his investment experience grants him proficiency as a capital allocator. Other members of the management team display impressive and relevant experience suitable for supporting TVK’s success.
Finally, TVK also enjoys an economies-of-scale advantage due to the inherent high fixed costs of operating in this industry in relation to variable costs and its dominating position in the industry, as explained above.