Yahoo! Inc. ($YHOO) Possible Buy to $52 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Yahoo! Inc.
Stock ticker YHOO
Live stock price [stckqut]YHOO[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $53.79
Target stock price (averages with growth) $72.92
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $58.44
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $47.37

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

Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo!) is a global technology company. Through the Company’s technology and insights, Yahoo! delivers digital content and experiences, across devices and globally. The Company provides online properties and services (Yahoo! Properties) to users, as well as a range of marketing services designed to reach and connect with those users on Yahoo! and through a distribution network of third-party entities (Affiliates). These Affiliates integrate its advertising offerings into their Websites or other offerings (those Websites and other offerings, Affiliate sites). Effective January 7, 2014, Yahoo Inc acquired Aviate. Effective January 24, 2014, Yahoo Inc acquired Cloud Party Inc. In February 2014, Yahoo! Inc announced the expansion of its Champaign, IL technology hub. Effective February 11, 2014, Yahoo! Inc acquired Wander LLC. Effective February 14, 2014, Yahoo! Inc acquired Distill. Effective May 13, 2014, the Company acquired Meh Labs Inc.

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

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How was this analysis of Yahoo! Inc. calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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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: $34.87
  • Growth: 0.17
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.2
  • P/E: 29
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.63
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $76.29
  • Target stock price: $47.37

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