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Company name RadioShack Corporation
Stock ticker RSH
Live stock price [stckqut]RSH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $20.4
Target stock price (averages with growth) $24.29
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $19.96
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $19.41


Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.

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Company name Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc.
Stock ticker PEET
Live stock price [stckqut]PEET[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $78.2
Target stock price (averages with growth) $91.37
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $59.3
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $37.95

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.

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I had discussed this in my earlier posting but Comcast really needs to fix some things at NBC. Anybody associated with this mistake needs to go flip burgers for a living.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Comedian Jay Leno will return to his 11:35 p.m. timeslot on NBC and end his nightly 10 p.m. comedy-talk series, NBC Universal chairman of television entertainment Jeff Gaspin told reporters on Sunday. “[‘The Jay Leno Show’] did not meet our affiliates’ needs and we realized we needed to make a change,” Mr. Gaspin told reporters gathered at a Television Critics Association conference in Pasadena, Calif.

Mr. Gaspin said the network hopes to move Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” to 12:05 a.m. and Jimmy Fallon’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” to 1:05 a.m. But those arrangements have not been confirmed and talks with the hosts and their management teams are ongoing, Mr. Gaspin said.

http://online.wsj.com?mod=djemalertNEWS

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I am not a bit surprised that Leno is in trouble at NBC. Moving that format to 10P in the 21st century was foolish. It may have been okay in the 50s or 60s but that show was doomed the day that Jay Leno walked on to the stage.

Of course, it doesn’t help that Conan is a flop in the 11:30 time slot.

The executives that put this together should be fired. It should be the first thing that Comcast does now that they have control of the company from GE. Fire the buffoons that did this. Talk about destroying a valuable commodity! Warren Buffet says that you should only invest in companies that can be profitable even if idiots run them. I don’t know if I agree with that advice but I definitely don’t think you should invest in companies that are run by buffoons!

This must be why GE does so badly in my Confident Investor Rating – they simply do not know how to drive the value of their products.  Hopefully, Comcast will do better.

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Company name McDonald’s Corporation
Stock ticker MCD
Live stock price [stckqut]MCD[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $92.78
Target stock price (averages with growth) $104.72
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $75.09
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $54.72

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.