Almacenes Exito S.A

EXTO

Market cap $586M

ENVIGADO, Colombia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Almacenes Éxito S.A. (BVC: EXITO; NYSE: EXTO; B3: EXCO32) ("Éxito" or "the Company") informs its shareholders and the market in general that today its Board of Directors approved the commencement of the process to: (i) voluntarily delist its American depositary shares (“ADSs”), each representing eight common shares of the Company, from the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”); and (ii) deregister the Company's securities under the U.S. Securities Exchange Ac.

Exito has become a busted special situation following a recently concluded tender offer. The recent drop has pushed shares down to 5x EV/EBITDA and a large discount to book value. I believe the firm's new owners will be far better stewards of the business and that the company is dramatically underearning today.