Carter’s, Inc. ($CRI) Possible Buy to $99 Confident Investor Rating: Good
| Company name | Carter’s, Inc. |
| Stock ticker | CRI |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]CRI[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Fair |
| Sales growth | Fair |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Good |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $104.92 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $133.88 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $90.36 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $100.28 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=cri
Carter’s, Inc. (Carter’s) is a branded marketer of apparel for babies and young children in the United States. The Company owns two brand names in the children’s apparel industry, Carter’s and OshKosh. Its Carter’s brand provides apparel for children sizes ranging from newborn to seven. OshKosh brand provides its line of apparel for children sizes newborn to 12. Its Carter’s, OshKosh, and related brands are sold to national department stores, chain and specialty stores and discount retailers. As of December 31, 2011, the Company operated 359 Carter’s and 170 OshKosh outlet and brand retail stores in the United States and 65 retail stores in Canada. On June 30, 2011, the Company acquired Bonnie Togs, a Canadian children’s apparel retailer and a former international licensee. In March 2012, the Company opened its Canadian flagship store at Vaughan Mills, which is a 7,300 square foot store, located at one Bass Pro Mills Drive.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Carter’s, Inc.
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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: $67.89
Growth: 0.19
Current EPS (TTM): $2.82
P/E: 24
Future EPS Calc: $6.72
Future Stock Price Calc: $161.5
Target stock price: $100.28
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