Inter Parfums, Inc. ($IPAR) Cautious Buy or Hold to $53 Confident Investor Rating: Fair

Company name Inter Parfums, Inc.
Stock ticker IPAR
Live stock price [stckqut]IPAR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $48.72
Target stock price (averages with growth) $82.67
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $81.64
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $42.27

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

Inter Parfums, Inc. operates in the fragrance business, and manufactures, markets and distributes an array of fragrances and fragrance related products. The Company operates in two segments: European based operations and United States based operations. Its prestige fragrance products are produced and marketed by its European operations through its 74% owned subsidiary in Paris, Interparfums SA. The Company’s specialty retail and mass market fragrance and fragrance related products are marketed through its United States operations These fragrance products are sold under trademarks owned by the Company or pursuant to license or other agreements with the owners of brands which include the Gap, Banana Republic, Anna Sui, Brooks Brothers, bebe, Betsey Johnson, Nine West, Lane Bryant and Jordache.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Inter Parfums, 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: $31.53

Growth: 0.16

Current EPS (TTM): $4.63

P/E: 7

Future EPS Calc: $9.72

Future Stock Price Calc: $68.07

Target stock price: $42.26

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