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Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type |
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Flotek Industries Inc | NYSE:FTK | NYSE | Common Stock |
Price Change | % Change | Share Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade | |
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0.00 | 0.00% | 3.48 | 3.52 | 3.39 | 3.46 | 24,654 | 00:00:00 |
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
SCHEDULE 13D
(Rule 13d-101)
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Flotek Industries, Inc.
(Name of Issuer)
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value
(Title of Class of Securities)
343389102
(CUSIP NUMBER)
Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC
1411 Broadway - 29th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Tel. No.: (212) 821-1495
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)
September 2, 2015
(Date of event which requires filing of this statement)
If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition which is the subject of this Schedule 13D/A, and is filing this schedule because of Rule 13d-1(e), 13d-1(f) or 13d-1(g) check the following box ¨
The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be filed for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Act), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act.
* | The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting persons initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page. |
CUSIP No. 343389102 | 13D |
1 | NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS
Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC | |||||
2 | CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP* (a) ¨ (b) ¨
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3 | SEC USE ONLY
| |||||
4 | SOURCE OF FUNDS*
OO (Funds from Investment Advisory Clients) | |||||
5 | CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEM 2(d) or 2(e)
¨ | |||||
6 | CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
Delaware | |||||
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH
|
7 | SOLE VOTING POWER
2,659,947 | ||||
8 | SHARED VOTING POWER
0 | |||||
9 | SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
2,804,874 | |||||
10 | SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
0 | |||||
11 |
AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
2,804,874 | |||||
12 | CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES*
¨ | |||||
13 | PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)
5.2% | |||||
14 | TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON*
IA |
* | SEE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE FILLING OUT |
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CUSIP No. 343389102 | 13D |
1 | NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS
Kevin Oram | |||||
2 | CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP* (a) ¨ (b) ¨
| |||||
3 | SEC USE ONLY
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4 | SOURCE OF FUNDS*
OO (Funds from Investment Advisory Clients) | |||||
5 | CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEM 2(d) or 2(e)
¨ | |||||
6 | CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
United States of America | |||||
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH
|
7 | SOLE VOTING POWER
2,659,947 | ||||
8 | SHARED VOTING POWER
0 | |||||
9 | SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
2,804,874 | |||||
10 | SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
0 | |||||
11 |
AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
2,804,874 | |||||
12 | CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES*
¨ | |||||
13 | PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)
5.2% | |||||
14 | TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON*
IN, HC |
* | SEE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE FILLING OUT |
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CUSIP No. 343389102 | 13D |
1 | NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS
Peter Uddo | |||||
2 | CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP* (a) ¨ (b) ¨
| |||||
3 | SEC USE ONLY
| |||||
4 | SOURCE OF FUNDS*
OO (Funds from Investment Advisory Clients) | |||||
5 | CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEM 2(d) or 2(e)
¨ | |||||
6 | CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
United States of America | |||||
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH
|
7 | SOLE VOTING POWER
2,659,947 | ||||
8 | SHARED VOTING POWER
0 | |||||
9 | SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
2,804,874 | |||||
10 | SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
0 | |||||
11 |
AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
2,804,874 | |||||
12 | CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES*
¨ | |||||
13 | PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)
5.2% | |||||
14 | TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON*
IN, HC |
* | SEE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE FILLING OUT |
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SCHEDULE 13D
This Schedule 13D relating to shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value (Common Stock), of Flotek Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Issuer) is being filed on behalf of the Reporting Persons (as defined herein).
The information set forth in response to each separate Item below shall be deemed to be a response to all Items where such information is relevant.
Item 1. | Security and Issuer |
Securities acquired: Common Stock
Issuer: Flotek Industries, Inc.
10603 W. Sam Houston Parkway N., Suite 300
Houston, Texas 770064
Item 2. | Identity and Background |
(a) This statement is filed by: (i) Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Praesidium), (ii) Kevin Oram and (iii) Peter Uddo (together with Praesidium and Mr. Oram, the Reporting Persons).
Praesidium, in its capacity as investment manager to certain managed accounts and investment fund vehicles on behalf of investment advisory clients (collectively, the Accounts), has sole power to vote 2,659,947 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts and to dispose of 2,804,874 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts. As the managing members of Praesidium, each of Kevin Oram and Peter Uddo may be deemed to control Praesidium.
(b) The business address of the Reporting Persons is 1411 Broadway29th Floor, New York, NY 10018.
(c) The principal business of Praesidium is the management of the assets and activities of the Accounts. Mr. Oram and Mr. Uddo serve as managing members of Praesidium.
(d) None of the Reporting Persons have, during the last five years, been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).
(e) None of the Reporting Persons have, during the last five years, been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, Federal or State securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.
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(f) Praesidium is a Delaware limited liability company. Each of Mr. Oram and Mr. Uddo are United States citizens.
Item 3. | Source and Amount of Funds |
The net investment costs (including commissions, if any) of the shares of Common Stock directly owned by the Accounts is approximately $14.01 per share. The source of these funds for the Accounts was their working capital.
Purchases of some securities for certain Accounts were effected through margin accounts maintained with brokers, which may extend margin credit as and when required to open or carry positions in the margin accounts, subject to applicable federal margin regulations, stock exchange rules and the brokers credit policies. In such instances, the positions held in the margin accounts may be pledged as collateral security for the repayment of debit balances in the accounts.
Item 4. | Purpose of Transaction |
The Reporting Persons acquired the shares of Common Stock reported herein in the ordinary course of business for investment purposes. The Reporting Persons may, depending on market price and other factors, purchase additional shares of Common Stock in public transactions. The Reporting Persons may also, depending on market conditions and other factors, dispose of, or cause to be disposed, any or all Common Stock held by them at any time.
On September 9, 2015, the Reporting Persons sent a letter (the Letter) to the members of the Issuers Board of Directors (the Board) expressing support for the Issuers management team and offering to work collaboratively with the Issuers management and Board to explore various initiatives to unlock and maximize shareholder value. The Reporting Persons believe, based on their research, that the Issuers common stock is undervalued and the full value of the Issuers FracMax software asset is currently not reflected in the Issuers stock price.
In the Letter, the Reporting Persons state that they would like to suggest to the Issuers management and Board initiatives regarding FracMax that they believe the Board will find helpful and should consider in order to unlock and maximize value for all shareowners. The various initiatives may include organizing a separate software business within the Issuer, licensing the technology to an established software company that currently sells to the energy industry, setting up a potential joint venture, and/or selling the technology to an analytics company.
The foregoing description of the Letter is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Letter, which is filed as Exhibit 2 and is incorporated herein by reference.
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The Reporting Persons have had informal conversations with members of the Issuers management team and a member of the Board regarding multiple topics, including general business operations and strategic alternatives. Going forward, the Reporting Persons may engage in communications with one or more officers, members of Board, representatives, shareholders of the Issuer and other relevant parties regarding the Issuers business and certain initiatives, which could include topics such as strategic alternatives and one or more of the items in subsections (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D. The Reporting Persons may, at any time and from time to time, review or reconsider their position and/or change their purpose and/or formulate plans or proposals with respect thereto.
Item 5. | Interest in Securities of the Issuer |
(a) - (b) The Reporting Persons beneficially own 2,804,874 shares of Common Stock, which represents 5.2% of the Issuers outstanding shares of Common Stock. The percentage of beneficial ownership of the Reporting Persons, as reported in this Schedule 13D, was calculated by dividing (i) the total number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Reporting Persons as of September 10, 2015 as set forth in this Schedule 13D, by (ii) the 53,608,401 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of July 15, 2015, according to the Issuers Current Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on July 22, 2015.
Praesidium, in its capacity as investment manager to the Accounts, has sole power to vote 2,659,947 shares of Common Stock and the power to dispose of 2,804,874 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts. As the managing members of Praesidium, each of Kevin Oram and Peter Uddo has sole power to vote 2,659,947 shares of Common Stock and the power to dispose of 2,804,874 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts.
(c) Transactions in the Issuers securities by the Reporting Persons during the last sixty days are listed in Annex A attached hereto.
(d) Not Applicable.
(e) Not Applicable.
Item 6. | Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer |
Except for the arrangements described herein, to the best knowledge of the Reporting Persons, there are no contracts, arrangements, understandings and relationships (legal or otherwise) among the persons named in Item 2 and between such persons and any other person with respect to any securities of the Issuer, including but not limited to, transfer or voting of any of the securities, finders fees, joint ventures, loan or option agreements, puts or calls, guarantees of profits, division of profits or loss, or the giving or withholding of proxies.
Item 7. | Material to be Filed as Exhibits |
Exhibit 1. | Joint filing agreement by and among the Reporting Persons. | |
Exhibit 2. | Letter to the Members of the Board |
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Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, the undersigned certifies that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.
Dated: September 10, 2015
PRAESIDIUM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Kevin Oram | |
Name: | Kevin Oram | |
Title: | Managing Member | |
KEVIN ORAM | ||
By: | /s/ Kevin Oram | |
PETER UDDO | ||
By: | /s/ Peter Uddo |
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EXHIBIT 1
JOINT FILING AGREEMENT
In accordance with Rule 13d-1(k) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the undersigned agree to the joint filing on behalf of each of them of a Statement on Schedule 13D (including any and all amendments thereto) with respect to the Common Stock of Flotek Industries, Inc., and further agree that this Joint Filing Agreement shall be included as an Exhibit to such joint filings.
The undersigned further agree that each party hereto is responsible for the timely filing of such Statement on Schedule 13D and any amendments thereto, and for the accuracy and completeness of the information concerning such party contained therein; provided, however, that no party is responsible for the accuracy or completeness of the information concerning any other party, unless such party knows or has reason to believe that such information is inaccurate.
This Joint Filing Agreement may be signed in counterparts with the same effect as if the signature on each counterpart were upon the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of September 10, 2015.
PRAESIDIUM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC
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By: | /s/ Kevin Oram | |
Name: | Kevin Oram | |
Title: | Managing Member | |
KEVIN ORAM | ||
By: | /s/ Kevin Oram | |
PETER UDDO | ||
By: | /s/ Peter Uddo |
Annex A
Except as set forth below, there have been no transactions in the Common Stock by the Reporting Persons or, to the knowledge of the Reporting Persons, by any of the other persons named in Item 2 during the past sixty days.
During the past sixty days, the Reporting Persons effected the following purchases and sales of shares of Common Stock through the Accounts in open market transactions:
Trade Date |
Settle Date | Amount Purchased/(Sold) | Price | |||||||
7/7/2015 |
7/10/2015 | 28,386 | 11.59 | |||||||
7/8/2015 |
7/13/2015 | 72,865 | 11.72 | |||||||
7/16/2015 |
7/21/2015 | 69,000 | 13.29 | |||||||
7/16/2015 |
7/21/2015 | 100,000 | 13.35 | |||||||
7/17/2015 |
7/22/2015 | 75,000 | 12.93 | |||||||
7/20/2015 |
7/23/2015 | 80,000 | 12.61 | |||||||
7/22/2015 |
7/27/2015 | 10,000 | 12.93 | |||||||
7/22/2015 |
7/27/2015 | 93,000 | 12.94 | |||||||
7/29/2015 |
8/3/2015 | 200,000 | 16.57 | |||||||
8/3/2015 |
8/6/2015 | 2,750 | 16.76 | |||||||
8/4/2015 |
8/7/2015 | 161,300 | 17.03 | |||||||
8/5/2015 |
8/10/2015 | 55,691 | 17.20 | |||||||
8/11/2015 |
8/14/2015 | 10,000 | 17.63 | |||||||
8/17/2015 |
8/20/2015 | 11,387 | 18.00 | |||||||
8/19/2015 |
8/24/2015 | 50,000 | 17.14 | |||||||
8/20/2015 |
8/25/2015 | 15,000 | 16.90 | |||||||
8/21/2015 |
8/26/2015 | 10,000 | 16.62 | |||||||
8/24/2015 |
8/27/2015 | 17,075 | 16.28 | |||||||
8/28/2015 |
9/2/2015 | (4,403 | ) | 18.76 | ||||||
9/1/2015 |
9/4/2015 | 32,822 | 18.97 | |||||||
9/2/2015 |
9/8/2015 | 125,000 | 18.97 | |||||||
9/4/2015 |
9/10/2015 | 500 | 20.44 | |||||||
9/8/2015 |
9/11/2015 | 78,500 | 19.91 |
EXHIBIT 2
LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
[See Attached]
September 9, 2015
Board of Directors
Flotek Industries, Inc.
10603 W. Sam Houston Parkway N., Suite 300
Houston, Texas 77064
Dear Members of the Board of Directors:
Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC (Praesidium or we) on behalf of its clients, currently beneficially owns approximately 5.2% of the outstanding shares of common stock of Flotek Industries, Inc. (Flotek or the Company). Praesidium is a registered investment adviser and serves as the investment management company for several investment funds and managed accounts whose investor base consists primarily of university endowments, foundations and wealthy families.
Praesidiums investment team focuses on uncovering and investing in what we believe are high-quality, undervalued companies. We concentrate our investments in approximately 15 companies at a time, with a long-term, multi-year average holding period. We often collaborate with the management teams and boards of our portfolio companies and serve as a resource to help them unlock value. One key differentiating feature of Praesidium is our expertise within the enterprise software sector, in which we typically invest 30-40% of our clients assets.
We are highly supportive of Floteks management team, and believe, based on our research, that the Company has a significant growth opportunity as a result of Floteks proprietary Complex Nanofluid (CnF) suite of custom chemistry formulations. Given our expectations for CnFs future market adoption potential as well as the potentially high return on investment that CnF provides oilfield customers, we believe that as the sole provider of this disruptive oilfield technology, Flotek is a rare and valuable company.
Our research around CnF was the driver for our investment in Flotek. However, we believe that the Company possesses a potentially valuable yet under-appreciated asset in its FracMax software. We are writing to the Board of Flotek to share our views on the value we see in Flotek today and to advise the Board that we intend to put forth, in future discussions, various initiatives regarding its FracMax software asset that we believe the Board will find helpful and should consider in order to unlock and maximize value for shareowners.
Unlocking Value in Floteks FracMax Software
In our opinion, much of the recent acceleration in growth of CnF can be attributed to FracMax, the Companys proprietary production optimization analytical software that was internally developed to efficiently illustrate the efficacy of CnF in enhancing production rates relative to those wells that do not use CnF. We believe FracMax is a powerful software tool that allows the user to access information at a very granular level to evaluate the side-by-side performance of wells from any basin in North America, in an easy to use, graphical interface. We think that the FracMax software application, beyond effectively demonstrating the efficacy of CnF to customers, potentially has a much broader use and value as a big data analytical tool to help analyze and optimize the full range of drilling and completion techniques.
Given our history investing in the software sector, coupled with our knowledge of Flotek, we believe that Praesidium is uniquely positioned to help the Board unlock the potential value we think the Company has built in FracMax. In fact, through a prior software investment, Praesidium has direct experience and many contacts in the area of business intelligence data visualization software, which we believe we can leverage to help maximize the value of FracMax.
As mentioned, we are very supportive of Floteks management and look forward to collaboratively working with the management team and Board to explore ways to maximize the value we see in the Company, as well as to offer our ideas for strategic alternatives for the FracMax software. Such alternatives may include organizing a separate software business within Flotek, licensing the technology to an established software company that currently sells to the energy industry, setting up a potential joint venture, and/or selling the technology to an analytics company. We believe our experience and vast network of contacts in the software industry will be a valuable resource to the Company and its shareholders in this regard.
Regards,
Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC
Kevin Oram | Peter Uddo | |
Managing Director | Managing Director |
Forward-Looking Statements
This letter contains forward-looking statements that is, statements related to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements address our expectations of future business and financial condition based on our analysis and assumptions, and often contain words such as expect, anticipate, intend, plan, believe, think, seek, see, will, would, or target. Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. Actual future business and financial performance could differ materially from such forward-looking statements. We do not intend, nor assume any obligation, to update or revise these forward-looking statements in light of developments which differ from those anticipated.
CC: | Mr. Ted D. Brown |
Mr. John W. Chisholm |
Mr. L. Melvin Cooper |
Ms. Carla Schulz Hardy |
Mr. Kenneth T. Hern |
Mr. L.V. Bud McGuire |
Mr. John S. Reiland |
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