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Company name Buffalo Wild Wings
Stock ticker BWLD
Live stock price [stckqut]BWLD[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

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) $147.41
Target stock price (averages with growth) $197.27
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $130.58
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $118.47

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=bwld

Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. is an owner, operator and franchisor of restaurants featuring a variety of menu items, including its Buffalo, New York-style chicken wings spun in any of its 14 signature sauces or four signature seasonings. Its restaurants create an atmosphere that includes a multi-media system, a full bar and an open layout, which appeals to sports fans and families alike. Its guests have the option of watching sporting events or other programs on its projection screens and approximately 50 additional televisions, competing in Buzztime Trivia, or playing video games. The open layout of its restaurants offers dining and bar areas that provide seating choices for sports fans and families. Its menu features traditional chicken wings, boneless wings, and other items, including chicken tenders, Wild Flatbreads, popcorn shrimp, specialty hamburgers and sandwiches, wraps, Buffalito soft tacos, appetizers and salads. Effective March 19, 2013, it acquired Pie Square Holdings LLC.

 

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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Company name Compania de Minas Buenaventura SA (ADR)
Stock ticker BVN
Live stock price [stckqut]BVN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $23.13
Target stock price (averages with growth) $27.68
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $28.39
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $22.43

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=bvn

Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA (Buenaventura) is a Peru-based mining company engaged in the exploration, mining, smelting and commercialization of gold and silver, as well as other metals and minerals. The Company operates directly seven Peruvian mining units located in Uchucchacua, Orcopampa, Poracota, Julcani, Recuperada, Antapite and Ishihuinca; as well as indirectly the mines of Shila-Paula, La Zanja and Colquijirca. Through its subsidiaries, the Company is also involved in the generation and distribution of electric power, as well as in the provision of engineering and chemical processing services. As of December 31, 2011, the Company owned such subsidiaries as Compania Minera Colquirrumi SA, Compania Minera Condesa SA, Empresa de Generacion Huanza SA, Buenaventura Ingenieros SA and Procesadora Industrial Rio Seco SA, among others.

 

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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I have had a few people ask me for a quick tutorial on how to calculate the free shares using the GOPM method (Grow on Other People’s Money). I teach this system in my book, The Confident Investor. I describe the technique in that book but maybe a few more examples are helpful.

Since this tutorial is only interesting to the readers of my book, only those registered readers will see the rest of this article. If you haven’t read my book, The Confident Investor, then you may not understand how you can have free trades based on GOPM. In fact, if you haven’t purchased the book and registered here on this site as a book owner then you won’t be able to see these additional examples. If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.

Which brings me to the big set of questions. Shouldn’t you own this book? Does your investment strategy beat buy-and-hold? Do you even have an investment strategy? If your strategy beats buy-and-hold, does it beat GOPM – Grow on Other People’s Money?

You can purchase my book wherever books are sold such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books A Million. It is available in ebook formats for Nook,Kindle, and iPad. It may be available at your favorite bookstore as well but you may have to ask.

[s2If current_user_can(s2member_level1)] Profitability Example 1
The basic math is actually quite easy. Let us say that you bought 100 shares of Company XYZ for $30 per share. For this use case, assume that Company XYZ has increased in price to $34. Using the tools in the book, you feel that the stock is about to drop in price. You want your original investment to be pulled out of the stock but want to keep the free shares growing.

You originally invested $3,000 in the stock plus you paid your broker $10 for a total of $3,010. When you sell those shares, you will pay your broker an additional $10 for a total of $3,020. You now need to divide that total investment by the current selling stock price which is $34. $3,020/$34 = 88..82. This means that you need to only sell 88.82 shares to completely get your $3,020 back into your account. Since you cannot sell partial shares of a stock, you will sell 89 shares at $34 giving you a total of $3,026 in your account. You have an additional $26 to invest in your next company along with your original $3,000. The most important thing is that you have 11 shares of XYZ Company that are absolutely free.

Rather than the above word problem that reminds me too much of nightmares of elementary math class, let’s put this into a formula.

(Original investment + commission to buy + commission to sell) / current stock price = number of shares to sell

Profitability Example 2
Another word problem is now appropriate. You bought 140 shares of MNO Company for $52.18 and your broker charges you $8 per trade. MNO is now currently selling at $56.62. Plugging this into the equation above gives us:

((140 x $52.18) + $8 +8) / $56.62 = 129.30 shares. Therefore, you would sell 130 shares and have 10 shares to continue to grow.

Good luck with your investments!

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Company name Baytex Energy Corp (USA)
Stock ticker BTE
Live stock price [stckqut]BTE[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $59.51
Target stock price (averages with growth) $44.72
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $22.88
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $47.21

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=bte

Baytex Energy Corp. (Baytex), through its subsidiaries, are engaged in the business of acquiring, developing, exploiting and holding interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and related assets in Canada (in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan) and in the United States (in the states of North Dakota and Wyoming). On February 3, 2011, the Company acquired heavy oil assets located in the Reno area of northern Alberta and the Lloydminster area of western Saskatchewan. On August 9, 2011, the Company acquired natural gas assets located in the Brewster area of west central Alberta. During the year ended December 31, 2011, it completed two dispositions of undeveloped lands; in the Kaybob South area of west central Alberta, it sold six sections of leasehold, including five sections with Duvernay rights, and in the Dodsland area in southwest Saskatchewan, which it sold 32,600 net acres of leasehold in the halo of the field.

 

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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