Balchem Corporation ($BCPC) Target: $40 Confident Investor Rating: Good

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 Balchem Corporation
Stock ticker BCPC
Live stock price [stckqut]BCPC[/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) $46.89
Target stock price (averages with growth) $51.83
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $34.81
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $40.17

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=bcpc
Balchem Corporation (Balchem) is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for the food, nutritional, feed, pharmaceutical and medical sterilization industries. It has three reportable segments: Specialty Products; Food, Pharma & Nutrition; and Animal Nutrition & Health. The Company sells its products through its own sales force, independent distributors and sales agents. Its wholly owned subsidiaries include BCP Ingredients, Inc., Balchem Minerals Corporation, CP Saint Gabriel, Inc., Chelated Minerals Corporation, Balchem BV, Balchem Trading BV and Balchem Italia Srl.

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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