Company name Buffalo Wild Wings
Stock ticker BWLD
Live stock price [stckqut]BWLD[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $216.14
Target stock price (averages with growth) $290.38
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $195.13
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $217.56

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

Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc., is a owner, operator, and franchisor of restaurants. The Company features a variety of menu items, including its Buffalo, New York-style chicken wings spun in any of its 16 types of sauces or five types of seasonings. The Company made-to-order menu also includes items ranging from Sweet BBQ to Blazin. The Company’s restaurants offer 20 to 30 domestic and imported beers on tap, including craft brews, and a selection of bottled beers, wines, and liquor. As of December 30, 2012, it owned or franchised 891 Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in North America, of which 381 were Company-owned and 510 were franchised. Effective March 19, 2013, it acquired Pie Square Holdings LLC. During the year ended December 30, 2012, the Company acquired 18 Buffalo Wild Wings franchised restaurants.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Buffalo Wild Wings.

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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: $140.07

Growth: 0.2

Current EPS (TTM): $3.79

P/E: 10

Future EPS Calc: $9.43

Future Stock Price Calc: $94.3

Target stock price: $58.55

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

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 Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.
Stock ticker CBI
Live stock price [stckqut]CBI[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $806.13
Target stock price (averages with growth) $496.26
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $214.73
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $129.48

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

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. is an energy infrastructure focused company and provider of government services. The Company operates in four segments: Engineering, Construction and Maintenance, which offers engineering, procurement, and construction for energy infrastructure facilities; Fabrication Services, which provides fabrication of piping systems, process and nuclear modules, fabrication and erection of steel plate storage tanks and pressure vessels for oil and gas and power generation industries; Technology, which offers licensed process technologies, specialized equipment, and engineered products for use in petrochemical facilities, oil refineries, and gas processing plants and provides process planning and project development services, and Government Solutions, which undertakes programs and projects, including design-build infrastructure projects for federal, state and local governments, as well as offers environmental services for government and private sector customers.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor.

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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: $83.55

Growth: 0.2

Current EPS (TTM): $4.19

P/E: 20

Future EPS Calc: $10.42

Future Stock Price Calc: $208.52

Target stock price: $129.47

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