AdCare Health Systems $ADK is a fascinating special situation that I have written about several times here on the Special Situation Investing News. I published my first article on the company in April of this year: From 0.0% to 9.7%, the World's Greatest Secret Dividend Growth Story https://specialsituationnews.whotrades.com/blog/43... The Cliff's Notes version of the story is that AdCare was a money-losing operator of senior living facilities that decided to change course from a lousy facility operator to a REIT-like property owner. The company brought in a new, experienced CEO, Bill McBride, in the fall of 2014 to facilitate the transition and by all accounts he has done a solid job. AdCare announced in late July that it has essentially completed its planned transition from operator to owner: AdCare Has Now Entered Into Agreements for All 40 Facilities; Signed Agreements to Sublease Three Remaining Properties http://investor.adcarehealth.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=1... Despite the fact that the company successfully accomplished this dramatic transition in a timely manner, AdCare has been punished by Mr. Market in conjunction with many other yield instruments over the past year: A two-year chart of $ADK (blue) vs. the S&P 500 (red) (click to enlarge) With the transition complete, many investors wondered what was next for AdCare? One of the company's largest shareholders, Chris Doucet, filed a 13D and sent a letter to AdCare in late June urging it to use the proceeds of its fairly recent preferred stock offering (which with a yield of 10.75% I personally disliked immensely) to buy back stock and make acquisitions. Here's what I wrote about the news at the time: A New Activist Position in AdCare Could Cause the Stock to More Than Double https://specialsituationnews.whotrades.com/blog/43... This morning news that broke that makes it appear as though AdCare's management received Mr. Doucet's message loud and clear: AdCare Signs Agreement to Purchase Florida Facility for $4.8 million Company Begins its Acquisition Program with an Agreement on a 55 bed Nursing Facility in the Tampa Bay Area http://finance.yahoo.com/news/adcare-signs-agreeme... There's a lot to like about this deal. Even though the facility that they acquired had a purchase price of $4.8 million, AdCare did not have to lay out a lot of money to acquire it. Instead, it assumed an existing HUD loan with attractive terms on the facility and gave seller a little cash. According to today's press release on the deal, AdCare already has a facility operator that it has an existing arrangement with set to lease the facility from it for $420,000 per year, escalating 3% annually. That 8.75% cap rate is especially attractive when one considers how little cash $ADK actually had to lay out. The deal is immediately accretive, netting the company $0.01/share, increasing annually by 3%. During the company's most recent quarterly conference call, Bill McBride stated that he expects AdCare to be one of the fastest growing REITs in the United States. So, expect more attractive acquisitions like this in the future. The faster AdCare grows, the sooner its bloated expenses will become less of a problem. Small companies, often spend a disproportionate amount of money on overhead. When they are sold to a larger company or grow on their own, they gain economies of scale that usually begin to improve their key metrics. In the industry that AdCare operates in General & Administrative expenses generally are equivalent to 5% of companies' revenue on average. As of the most recent quarter, AdCare's percentage stood at an extremely unattractive 15%. If AdCare becomes more efficient as it grows, or just trims some fat now that the restructuring process is behind it, and reduce its General & Administrative expenses by a mere $1 million, it would still be an ugly double the industry average on expenses yet would increase its bottom line by $0.05/share. REITs have been extremely battered by Mr. Market lately, but with an attractive current dividend yield of 6.1% that will likely grow rapidly in the future as a result of expense reduction and additional acquisitions I strongly believe that good times are ahead for AdCare shareholders. And Now for the rest of the Special Situation Investing News: Spinoffs: Ashland announces plan to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ashland-inc-announce... Ashland to Separate Valvoline Business Following Review http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-22/... NorthStar Realty Finance Aug. 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