This is a guest post written by David Lewis

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that managed mutual funds should not be long-term investment vehicles. Very few people are experiencing stellar results. DALBAR Inc. has gone on record to say that the average mutual fund return is less than the index it is made up of.

There is one reason that products are sold in the financial world, and that is to make money. It doesn’t matter what you buy: insurance, annuities, mutual funds, stocks, bonds, ETFs, or anything else. The only question is,

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Company name Volterra Semiconductor Corporation
Stock ticker VLTR
Live stock price [stckqut]VLTR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $37.36
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1397.33
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $35.76
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $35.23

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