Company name Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings
Stock ticker LH
Live stock price [stckqut]LH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $82.57
Target stock price (averages with growth) $107.3
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $100.49
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $88.75

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

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings is a clinical laboratory company in the United States. Through a national network of laboratories, the Company offers a range of testing services used by the medical profession in routine testing, patient diagnosis, and in the monitoring and treatment of disease. In addition, it has developed specialty and niche operations based on certain types of specialized testing capabilities and client requirements, such as oncology testing, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) genotyping and phenotyping, diagnostic genetics and clinical research trials. It processes tests on approximately 470,000 patient specimens daily and provides clinical laboratory testing services in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Belgium, Japan, the United Kingdom, China, Singapore and three provinces in Canada.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings.

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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

Stock price at the time of the calculation: $101.85

Growth: 0.08

Current EPS (TTM): $6.08

P/E: 16

Future EPS Calc: $8.93

Future Stock Price Calc: $142.93

Target stock price: $88.75

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