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AML Foods Limited

BISX: AML · Food Retail · The Bahamas
Initiation Published June 2, 2026 By Mario Johnson
Price$9.00
Global fair value$10.71+19%
Domestic fair value$21.43+138%
Market cap$135M
Thesis in brief

A quality, cash-generative Bahamian food retailer that looks cheap through either lens. To a global investor pricing the full Bahamas country risk premium, fair value is about $10.71 against a $9.00 price, roughly 19% of upside. To a domestic investor, who cannot invest abroad and so prices against a Bahamas government bond rather than a US Treasury, fair value is about $21.43. The gap between the two is the country risk premium, and nothing else moves the number as much.

I.

The business

AML Foods Limited is one of the largest food retailers in the Bahamas, running supermarket and wholesale grocery formats alongside a franchised quick-service segment. It is a roughly $135M company on about $203M of revenue (FY25), growing in the mid-single digits, at a gross margin near 34% and returns on capital comfortably above its cost of capital. The full breakdown is in the thesis.

II.

Where the value sits

  1. Two lenses, one country risk premium. To a global investor charging the full 5.13% premium, fair value is about $10.71, roughly 19% above the $9.00 price. To a domestic investor who prices against a Bahamas government bond, it is about $21.43. The entire difference between the two is the country risk premium.
  2. The premium is the swing factor. At 5.13%, the country risk premium is close to half of the global cost of equity, so fair value moves far more with the Bahamas-risk assumption than with any revenue or margin input. Remove it, as a domestic buyer effectively does, and the value roughly doubles.
  3. A quality business, cheap on either lens. Returns on invested capital run well above the cost of capital, so growth creates value. Even to a global investor charging full Bahamas risk, AML is about 19% undervalued, and to a domestic buyer far more.
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