Shareholder Letter
Page 1 of 10 IAC Q1 2019 Shareholder Letter May 8, 2019 Dear Shareholders, As of yesterday, we hold $22.5 billion of net cash and liquid securities (226 million shares of MTCH, 421 million shares of ANGI, and $1.1 billion of cash net of debt). With 87 million IAC shares outstanding, IAC’s equity market value is currently $19.7 billion, which is $2.8 billion below the value of those securities, a discount of approximately $32/share, or 12%. All that math entirely excludes any value for our non-public assets: Vimeo, Dotdash, Applications, and our Emerging & Other segment – those still come free with the purchase of an IAC share today. As you can see in the chart below, the discount has been shrinking, but persistent. Discount of IAC Stock Price to Market Value of Liquid Securities Since Announcement of ANGI Transaction 0% -10% -12% -20% -30% May'17 Aug'17 Nov'17 Feb'18 Jun'18 Sep'18 Dec'18 Apr'19 Clearly, we still have work to do to help investors understand the many components of IAC. The performance of our publicly-traded assets (MTCH and ANGI) is well covered in their respective filings, and valued every day in the stock market, so we’ll go a bit deeper in this letter on Dotdash, a wholly-owned business in which we’re increasingly confident. Page 2 of 10 Before that, a quick summary: All of our segments, including our non-public assets, had a strong quarter on track for their goals this year. All the growth engines – MTCH, ANGI, Vimeo, Dotdash, Mobile Applications (now called Mosaic) and BlueCrew – will grow revenue in excess of 15% and remain early in penetrating the large markets in which they compete.
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