American Tower Corp ($AMT) Possible Buy to $126 Confident Investor Rating: Good

I am currently going through my Watch List to ensure that each company still deserves to be on the list. Because of the number of companies on my list, I am going to try to knock out 2 per weekday.

Company name American Tower Corp
Stock ticker AMT
Live stock price [stckqut]AMT[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $126.75
Target stock price (averages with growth) $236.57
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $222.7
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $125.8

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

American Tower Corporation is a holding company. The Company conducts its operations through its directly and indirectly owned subsidiaries and joint ventures. It is a wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure company that owns, operates and develops communications sites. Its primary business includes leasing antenna space on multi-tenant communications sites to wireless service providers, radio and television broadcast companies, wireless data providers, government agencies and municipalities and tenants in a number of other industries. This business is its rental and management operations, which accounted for approximately 98% of its total revenues during the year ended December 31, 2011. In January 2012, the Company merged with and into American Tower REIT, Inc. In October 2013, the Company acquired MIP Tower Holdings LLC. In November2013, NII Holdings, Inc sold 1,483 communications sites in Mexico to American Tower Corporation.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in American Tower 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: $81.94

Growth: 0.2

Current EPS (TTM): $1.38

P/E: 59

Future EPS Calc: $3.43

Future Stock Price Calc: $202.59

Target stock price: $125.79

I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]

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