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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 Millicom International Cellular SA (USA)
Stock ticker MICC
Live stock price [stckqut]MICC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $151.28
Target stock price (averages with growth) $162.43
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $138.49
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $113.22

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=micc
Millicom International Cellular S.A. (Millicom) is a global mobile telecommunications operator. The Company also operates fixed telephony, cable and broadband businesses in five countries in Central America. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had 14 mobile operations in 14 countries focusing on emerging markets in Central America, South America, Africa and Asia. Millicom operates its mobile businesses in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in Central America; in Bolivia, Colombia and Paraguay in South America; in Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Mauritius, Rwanda, Senegal and Tanzania in Africa; and in Laos in Asia. In November 2009, the Company announced that it has completed the sale of its Cambodian operations to The Royal Group. In October 2009, the Company announced the sale of Tigo (Private) Limited, its Sri Lanka operation, to Etisalat. In March 2011, the Company sold its 74.1% share of its operations in Laos to Vimpelcom Ltd.

 

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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There is a great article on Blogging Stocks that discusses what the author would have done differently over his lifetime had he been investing with today’s wisdom.  Below are his 5 pieces of advice and you can click through here to read the full explanation. 

My advice though is quite simple.  Only invest in companies that have shown a track record of consistent growth and them actively manage your investment in that company so that you avoid the inevitable times when the market goes against even the best of companies.

  1. Don’t try to hit the ball out of the park with every investment.
  2. Save more!
  3. Do more homework on sites (like the stocks that I rate here at Confident-Investor.com and call out as Good companies).
  4. Diversify the portfolio
  5. Buy more bonds (this is almost the same as 4).

Check out the original article, it is a good read.

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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 Life Partners Holdings, Inc.
Stock ticker LPHI
Live stock price [stckqut]LPHI[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
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) $12.35
Target stock price (averages with growth) $16.7
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $16.98
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $9.62

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=lphi
Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (Life Partners) is a financial services company and the parent company of Life Partners, Inc. (LPI). LPI is engaged in the secondary market for life insurance known generally as life settlements. LPI facilitates the sale of life settlements between sellers and purchasers, but does not take possession or control of the policies. The purchasers acquire the life insurance policies at a discount to their face value for investment purposes. Life settlement transactions involve the sale of an existing life insurance policy to another party. By selling the policy, the policyholder receives an immediate cash payment to use as he or she wishes. The purchaser takes an ownership interest in the policy at a discount to its face value and receives the death benefit under the policy when the insured dies.

 

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