Garmin Ltd. ($GRMN) Target: $29 Confident Investor Rating: Poor

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 Garmin Ltd.
Stock ticker GRMN
Live stock price [stckqut]GRMN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $25.13
Target stock price (averages with growth) $31.41
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $30.89
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $29.4

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=grmn
Garmin Ltd. (Garmin) is a provider of navigation, communication and information devices and applications, which are enabled by global positioning system (GPS) technology. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of hand-held, portable and fixed-mount GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communications and information products for the automotive/mobile, outdoor/fitness, marine and general aviation markets. The Company operates in four segments: Marine, Automotive/Mobile, Outdoor/Fitness and Aviation. In September 2010, the Company acquired MetriGear, Inc. In October 2010, the Company acquired Belanor AS.

 

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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