Several times a year, a Confident Investor must reevaluate the companies in the portfolio. Keeping your money in a stock that no longer qualifies as a “Good” company can end up hurting your investment performance a great deal.  Also, there are a lot of Good Companies so losing the worst of the best is not going to impact the ability to have a balanced portfolio.  Over the coming days, this site will evaluate each stock on the Watch List.

 

Company name JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Stock ticker JPM
Live stock price [stckqut]JPM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $71.52
Target stock price (averages with growth) $92.88
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $81.01
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $47.64

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=jpm
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) is a financial holding company. JPMorgan Chase?s principal bank subsidiaries are JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), a national bank with United States branches in 23 states, and Chase Bank USA, National Association (Chase Bank USA, N.A.), a national bank that is the Firm?s credit card-issuing bank. JPMorgan Chase?s principal nonbank subsidiary is J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (JPMorgan Securities), the Firm’s United States investment banking firm. The bank and nonbank subsidiaries of JPMorgan Chase operate nationally, as well as through overseas branches and subsidiaries, representative offices and subsidiary foreign banks. The Company’s activities are organized into six business segments: Investment Bank, Retail Financial Services (RFS), Card Services (CS), Commercial Banking (CB), Treasury & Securities Services (TSS) and Asset Management (AM).

 

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

 

Several times a year, a Confident Investor must reevaluate the companies in the portfolio. Keeping your money in a stock that no longer qualifies as a “Good” company can end up hurting your investment performance a great deal.  Also, there are a lot of Good Companies so losing the worst of the best is not going to impact the ability to have a balanced portfolio.  Over the coming days, this site will evaluate each stock on the Watch List.

 

Company name Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Stock ticker ISRG
Live stock price [stckqut]ISRG[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $522.79
Target stock price (averages with growth) $748.86
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $526.87
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $491.12

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=isrg
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Intuitive Surgical) designs, manufactures and market da Vinci Surgical Systems, which are advanced surgical systems.The Company’s principal products include three models of da Vinci Surgical System: da Vinci Si Surgical System, da Vinci S Surgical System and standard da Vinci Surgical System, along with a variety of EndoWrist instruments and accessories. The da Vinci Surgical System is used to perform surgery across multiple surgical specialties, including urology, gynecology, cardiothoracic surgery, transoral surgery, and general surgery. As of December 31, 2010, the Company had an installed base of 1,752 da Vinci Surgical Systems. During the year ended December 31, 2010, the Company introduced da Vinci Si-e systems and da Vinci Si Surgical System. During 2010, it sold nine da Vinci Si-e systems. The da Vinci Surgical System consists of a surgeon?s console, or consoles, a patient-side cart and vision system.

 

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

Several times a year, a Confident Investor must reevaluate the companies in the portfolio. Keeping your money in a stock that no longer qualifies as a “Good” company can end up hurting your investment performance a great deal.  Also, there are a lot of Good Companies so losing the worst of the best is not going to impact the ability to have a balanced portfolio.  Over the coming days, this site will evaluate each stock on the Watch List.

 

Company name Image Sensing Systems, Inc.
Stock ticker ISNS
Live stock price [stckqut]ISNS[/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) $21
Target stock price (averages with growth) $27.37
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $18.53
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $19.69

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=isns
Image Sensing Systems, Inc. develops and markets video and radar image processing products for use in traffic applications, such as intersection control, highway, bridge and tunnel traffic management and traffic data collection. The Company provides software-based, computer-enabled detection (CED) products and solutions for the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) industry. Its family of products is marketed as Autoscope and RTMS. The Company?s technology analyzes signals from sensors and transmits the information to management systems and controllers or directly to users. In June 2010, the Company acquired CitySync Limited.

 

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

Several times a year, a Confident Investor must reevaluate the companies in the portfolio. Keeping your money in a stock that no longer qualifies as a “Good” company can end up hurting your investment performance a great deal.  Also, there are a lot of Good Companies so losing the worst of the best is not going to impact the ability to have a balanced portfolio.  Over the coming days, this site will evaluate each stock on the Watch List.

 

Company name HealthStream, Inc.
Stock ticker HSTM
Live stock price [stckqut]HSTM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $11.61
Target stock price (averages with growth) $14.11
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $7.94
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $11.4

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=hstm
HealthStream, Inc. (HealthStream) provides Internet-based learning and research solutions to meet the training, information, and education needs of the healthcare industry. The Company?s learning products are used by healthcare organizations to meet a range of their training and assessment needs, while its research products provide its customers information about patients? experiences, workforce challenges, physician relations, and community perceptions of their services. HealthStream’s customers include healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and other participants in the healthcare industry. Its customer base across both learning and research business units includes over 2,500 healthcare organizations (predominately acute-care facilities) throughout the United States. It delivers educational and training courseware to its customers through the HLC platform.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. Since the company is no longer ranked as Good, I will remove it from my Watch List.  If you have already built up a position in this stock, you may want to hold this stock and not aggressively add to your position.

 

Several times a year, a Confident Investor must reevaluate the companies in the portfolio. Keeping your money in a stock that no longer qualifies as a “Good” company can end up hurting your investment performance a great deal.  Also, there are a lot of Good Companies so losing the worst of the best is not going to impact the ability to have a balanced portfolio.  Over the coming days, this site will evaluate each stock on the Watch List.

 

Company name HMS Holdings Corp.
Stock ticker HMSY
Live stock price [stckqut]HMSY[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $122.22
Target stock price (averages with growth) $182.71
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $113.78
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $108.93

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=hmsy
HMS Holdings Corp. (HMS) provides a variety of cost containment, coordination of benefits and program integrity services for government-sponsored health and human services programs. The Company?s clients are state Medicaid agencies, government-sponsored managed care plans, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), child support agencies, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), commercial plans, self-funded employer plans and other healthcare payors. In September 2009, it acquired IntegriGuard LLC an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certified and Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) accredited organization, which provides services related to the prevention and detection of fraud, waste, and abuse in the healthcare system. In December 2009, HMS acquired the assets of Verify Solutions, LLC. In September 2010, the Company acquired Chapman Kelly.

 

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