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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 The Boston Beer Company, Inc.
Stock ticker SAM
Live stock price [stckqut]SAM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $142.68
Target stock price (averages with growth) $134.94
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $100.53
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $114.62

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=sam The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (Boston Beer) is a craft brewer and an independently owned brewer overall in the United States. The Company produces malt beverages and hard cider products at company-owned breweries and under contract arrangements at other brewery locations. The company-owned breweries are located in Boston, Massachusetts (the Boston Brewery), Cincinnati, Ohio (the Cincinnati Brewery) and Breinigsville, Pennsylvania (the Pennsylvania Brewery). During the fiscal year ended December 26, 2009 (fiscal 2009), Boston Beer sold approximately two million barrels of its products (core brands) and brewed or packaged approximately 200,000 barrels under contract (non-core products) for third parties. During fiscal 2009, the Company sold over 20 beers under the Samuel Adams or the Sam Adams brand names, eight flavored malt beverage products under the Twisted Tea brand name, and one hard cider product under the HardCore brand name.

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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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 Research In Motion Limited (USA)
Stock ticker RIMM
Live stock price [stckqut]RIMM[/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) $74.27
Target stock price (averages with growth) $131.92
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $127.32
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $57.97

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=rimm Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information, including e-mail, phone, short message service (SMS), Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM?s portfolio of products, services and embedded technologies are used by organizations worldwide and include the BlackBerry wireless solution, the RIM Wireless Handheld product line, software development tools and other software and hardware. Its subsidiaries include Research In Motion Corporation, Research In Motion UK Limited and RIM Finance, LLC. On June 2, 2010, Harman International sold its software operating systems unit, QNX Software Systems, to the Company.

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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 Royal Gold, Inc.
Stock ticker RGLD
Live stock price [stckqut]RGLD[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $92.89
Target stock price (averages with growth) $86.02
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $52.99
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $60.16

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=rgld Royal Gold, Inc. (Royal Gold) together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the business of acquiring and managing precious metals royalties and similar interests derived from production. The Company focuses to acquire existing royalties or to finance projects that are in production or in development stage in exchange for royalty interests. As of June 30, 2010, the Company owns royalties on 33 producing properties, 23 development stage properties and over 130 exploration-stage properties, of which the Company considers 37 to be evaluation stage projects.32 producing properties. On January 25, 2010, Royal Gold acquired an interest in the gold produced from the sulfide portion of the Andacollo project in Chile (Andacollo Royalty). On February 22, 2010, the Company, through RG Exchangeco Inc., wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of Royal Gold acquired all of International Royalty Corporation (IRC).

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Company name Quality Systems, Inc.
Stock ticker QSII
Live stock price [stckqut]QSII[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $121.57
Target stock price (averages with growth) $150.21
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $99.9
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $123.49

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=qsii Quality Systems, Inc. develops and markets healthcare information systems that automate certain aspects of medical and dental practices, networks of practices, such as physician hospital organizations (PHOs) and management service organizations (MSOs), ambulatory care centers, community health centers, and medical and dental schools. The Company also provides revenue cycle management (RCM) services through the Practice Solutions Division. The Company operates in three segments: NextGen Division, the QSI Dental Division and the Practice Solutions Division. On August 12, 2009, the Company acquired NextGen Sphere, LLC (Sphere), a provider of financial information systems to the small hospital inpatient market. On February 10, 2010, the Company acquired Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (Opus), a provider of clinical information systems to the small hospital inpatient market.

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.

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If you still were invested in UAM as of today, you saw the price drop the $14 per share that you received in cash due to their transaction with CVS.

As a basic rule of thumb, whenever a company adds 10% or sells 10% of their business you should probably sit back and not hold that company for a quarter or two. Major changes to the corporate structure are often followed by a lower than average performance. Often, too many employees are worried about how to structure the resulting company and are not spending enough time growing revenue and profitability. It is safer to let the company find its way as you invest your hard earned cash elsewhere.

I will look at UAM again in the future.