| Company name | Royal Gold, Inc USA) |
| Stock ticker | RGLD |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]RGLD[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Fair |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $76.99 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $86.66 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $59.56 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $72.66 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=rgld
Royal Gold, Inc. (Royal Gold) together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the business of acquiring and managing precious metals royalties and similar interests. The Company focuses to acquire existing royalties or to finance projects that are in production or in development stage in exchange. As of June 30, 2012, the Company owned royalties on 39 producing properties, 26 development stage properties and 128 exploration stage properties, of which the Company considers 40 to be evaluation stage projects. The Company owns a royalty on all gold produced from the sulfide portion of the Andacollo copper and gold deposit. The Company owns a 1.0% to 1.5% sliding-scale net smelter return (NSR) royalty on the Canadian Malartic open-pit gold mine and milling operation located in Quebec, Canada.
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Royal Gold, Inc USA) as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I am leaving Royal Gold on my Watch List simply so investors know of a good gold based stock in case that exposure is needed in their personal portfolios.
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How was this analysis of Royal Gold, Inc USA) calculated?
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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: $63.99
Growth: 0.13
Current EPS (TTM): $0.87
P/E: 73
Future EPS Calc: $1.6
Future Stock Price Calc: $117.01
Target stock price: $72.65
I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]