There’s a single New Jersey deli doing $35,000 in sales valued at $100 million in the stock market

Hedge fund supervisor David Einhorn warned of hazards for retail buyers that he sees in the market, and just one of his principal illustrations was a very small New Jersey deli with a current market capitalization of far more than $100 million.

The Paulsboro, New Jersey-based mostly Your Hometown Deli is the sole place for Hometown Worldwide, which has an eye-popping current market price irrespective of totaling $35,748 in profits in the very last two a long time blended, according to securities filings.

“Someone pointed us to Hometown Worldwide (HWIN), which owns a single deli in rural New Jersey … HWIN arrived at a current market cap of $113 million on February 8. The major shareholder is also the CEO/CFO/Treasurer and a Director, who also takes place to be the wrestling coach of the significant university subsequent door to the deli. The pastrami have to be wonderful,” Einhorn claimed in a letter to purchasers released Thursday.

Hometown, which appears to have begun buying and selling in 2019, in accordance to FactSet, has shares that trade over the counter and seldom has additional than a handful of hundred shares change hands for each day. Generally, there are no trades logged in an overall buying and selling working day.

However, the firm’s industry cap is just over $100 million, according to FactSet.

Hometown did not quickly return a request seeking remark produced to the cellphone selection stated in the firm’s securities filings. A manager was not offered to remark at the deli’s cellphone range.

In accordance to the firm’s newest 10-K filing, the firm’s solitary area was closed from March 23 to September 8 of last 12 months because of the coronavirus pandemic. All through that time, the firm’s inventory price rose to $9.25 for each share from $3.25 per share. It very last traded at just beneath $14 per share.

The firm offered 2.5 million shares past calendar year and has about 60 complete shareholders, in accordance a filing.

Hometown claimed much more than $600,000 in expenses past year, up from about $154,000 in 2019. The business also claimed a web income obtain of $2.2 million from financing actions, these types of as advertising stock, in 2020.

Einhorn’s highlighting of Hometown will come as politicians, regulators and significant-profile traders have publicly fretted about the increase in particular forms of shares in excess of the past year.

As a new wave of retail traders joined the sector in recent months, special intent acquisition organizations have introduced at a history pace and some shares, like GameStop and Discovery, have viewed wild swings following becoming bid up by traders on Reddit or hedge money.

The more than-the-counter inventory sector, normally referred to as pink sheets and penny shares, have traditionally been a dangerous put for buyers. Shares of penny shares have also soared in recent months.