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Cable Bahamas Limited

BISX: CAB · Telecom / Connectivity · The Bahamas
Initiation Published June 9, 2026 By Mario Johnson
Price$3.78
Global fair value$8.43+123%
Domestic fair value$12.32+226%
Market cap$164M
Thesis in brief

A legacy cable operator turning into a fiber-and-mobile connectivity business, right as the heavy build-out ends. With the ALIVFibr network largely complete, capital spending and depreciation roll off and interest falls as expensive preferred shares are refinanced, pushing Cable Bahamas from losses into sustained profitability. Even to a global investor charging the full country risk premium, fair value is about $8.43 against a $3.78 price, well over double. To a domestic investor it is worth more still. This is the rare BISX name that looks cheap on both lenses.

I.

The business

Cable Bahamas is transitioning from a legacy cable-TV provider into a fiber-broadband and mobile-data business. Its mobile arm, ALIV, holds around half the Bahamian market, and its ALIVFibr fiber-to-the-home network now passes the large majority of Nassau households and is extending to the family islands. One fact to hold up front. Cable Bahamas owns 48.25% of ALIV, its growth engine, with the government holding the rest. The full picture is in the thesis.

II.

Why the market is wrong

  1. The build-out is ending, and the P&L knows it. The ALIVFibr network is largely built. As capital spending falls, depreciation deflates, and as expensive preferred shares are refinanced and repaid, interest expense drops. Both flow straight to the bottom line, carrying Cable Bahamas from losses into sustained profit.
  2. Fiber is a moat with operating leverage. The network cost over $85M and is expensive to replicate. It carries high fixed and low variable costs, needs less maintenance and power than legacy copper, and rides through hurricanes on light signals plus battery backup. Higher-tier bundles lift revenue per customer and make switching harder.
  3. The market is pricing the losses, not the turn. Even to a global investor charging the full country risk premium, fair value is about $8.43 versus $3.78, more than double the price, and to a domestic investor more still. Cable Bahamas is funded mostly by mandatorily-redeemable preferred, and once that preferred is priced as the senior claim it is and the thin equity is treated as the high-beta sliver it is, the WACC holds up and the stock is still cheap.
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