Frontier Communications Corp ($FTR) Confident Investor Rating: Poor

Company name Frontier Communications Corp
Stock ticker FTR
Live stock price [stckqut]FTR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $3.92
Target stock price (averages with growth) $4.1
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $3.17
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $4.75

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

Frontier Communications Corporation (Frontier) is a communications company providing services primarily to rural areas and small and medium-sized towns and cities in the United States. The Company offers a range of voice, data, Internet, and television services and products, some that are available a la carte, and others that are available as bundled or packaged solutions. It operated in 27 states, and was the Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC), with approximately 5.3 million access lines and 1.8 million broadband connections as of December 31, 2011. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company added approximately 45,200 new High-Speed Internet (HSI) subscribers, net. At December 31, 2011, it had approximately 1,764,200 HSI customers. Throughout its properties, Frontier offers a video product through DISH Network (DISH) and, in addition, it offers fiber optic video services in three states. It added approximately 26,100 video subscribers, net during 2011.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Frontier Communications Corp.

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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: $4.85

Growth: 0.09

Current EPS (TTM): $0.07

P/E: 71

Future EPS Calc: $0.1

Future Stock Price Calc: $7.64

Target stock price: $4.74

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