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Company name Titan Machinery Inc.
Stock ticker TITN
Live stock price [stckqut]TITN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $16.79
Target stock price (averages with growth) $21.24
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $14.74
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $19.08

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

Titan Machinery Inc. owns and operates a network of agricultural and construction equipment stores in the United States and Europe. It is a retail dealer of Case IH Agriculture equipment and a retail dealer of New Holland Agriculture, Case Construction and New Holland Construction equipment in the United States. It operates in two segments: Agriculture and Construction. The agricultural equipment, which it sells and services includes machinery and attachments for uses ranging from large-scale farming to home and garden use. The construction equipment it sells and services includes heavy construction and light industrial machinery for commercial and residential construction, road and highway construction and mining. In February 2013, it acquired Tucson Tractor Company. In March 2013, it acquired Adobe CE, LLC, consisting of one Case Construction equipment dealership located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Titan Machinery Inc. as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I am taking Titan off of my Watch List as I think there are other stocks that can perform better.

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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: $15.79

Growth: 0.14

Current EPS (TTM): $0.42

P/E: 38

Future EPS Calc: $0.8

Future Stock Price Calc: $30.72

Target stock price: $19.08

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Company name Skyworks Solutions Inc
Stock ticker SWKS
Live stock price [stckqut]SWKS[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $64.74
Target stock price (averages with growth) $88.9
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $65.28
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $59.66

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

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Skyworks) is a producer of analog semiconductors. The Company offers custom linear products automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, global positioning system (GPS), industrial, medical, military, wireless networking, smartphone and tablet applications. Its portfolio consists of amplifiers, attenuators, battery chargers, circulators, demodulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure RF subsystems, isolators, light emitting diode (LED) drivers, mixers, modulators, optocouplers, optoisolators, phase shifters, phase locked loops (PLLs)/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, power management devices, receivers, switches, voltage regulators and technical ceramics. Its customers include Cisco, Ericsson, Foxconn, Fujitsu, General Electric, Google, Honeywell, LG Electronics, Nest, Netgear, Nokia, Northrop Grumman, Rockwell Collins, Samsung, Sensus and ZTE.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Skyworks Solutions 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: $41.79

Growth: 0.18

Current EPS (TTM): $1.68

P/E: 25

Future EPS Calc: $3.84

Future Stock Price Calc: $96.08

Target stock price: $59.66

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Company name Boston Beer Co Inc
Stock ticker SAM
Live stock price [stckqut]SAM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $343.27
Target stock price (averages with growth) $291.28
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $186.85
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $278

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

The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (Boston Beer) is a craft brewer in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2011, Boston Beer sold approximately 2.5 million barrels of its products (core brands) and brewed or packaged approximately 13,000 barrels under contract (non-core brands) for third parties. During 2011, the Company sold over fifty beers under the Samuel Adams or the Sam Adams brand names, seven flavored malt beverages under the Twisted Tea brand name, three hard cider beverages under the Angry Orchard brand name and one hard cider under the HardCore brand name. Boston Beer produces malt beverages and hard cider at Company-owned breweries and under contract arrangements at other brewery locations. The Company-owned breweries are located in Boston, Massachusetts (the Boston Brewery), Cincinnati, Ohio (the Cincinnati Brewery) and Breinigsville, Pennsylvania (the Pennsylvania Brewery). During 2011, the Company launched the Angry Orchard brand family.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Boston Beer Co Inc.

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How was this analysis of Boston Beer Co Inc 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: $221.96

Growth: 0.15

Current EPS (TTM): $5.3

P/E: 42

Future EPS Calc: $10.66

Future Stock Price Calc: $447.72

Target stock price: $278

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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.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

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]