Taylor Devices, Inc. ($TAYD) Cautious Buy or Hold to $8 Confident Investor Rating: Fair

Company name Taylor Devices, Inc.
Stock ticker TAYD
Live stock price [stckqut]TAYD[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $8.53
Target stock price (averages with growth) $6.09
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $3.19
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $8.51

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

Taylor Devices, Inc. is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of shock absorption, rate control, and energy storage devices for use in various types of machinery, equipment and structures. In addition to manufacturing and selling existing product lines, the Company continues to develop new and advanced technology products. The Company manufactures and sells a single group of similar products that have many different applications for customers. These similar products are included in one of six categories: Seismic Dampers, Fluidicshoks, Crane and Industrial Buffers, Self-Adjusting Shock Absorbers, Liquid Die Springs, and Vibration Dampers. The products are manufactured at the Company’s operating facility in the United States. During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2012(fiscal 2012), 39% of the Company’s revenue was generated from sales to customers in the United States and 54% was from sales to customers in Asia.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Taylor Devices, Inc. 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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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: $8.17

Growth: 0.105

Current EPS (TTM): $0.64

P/E: 13

Future EPS Calc: $1.05

Future Stock Price Calc: $13.7

Target stock price: $8.51

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