| Company name | United Stationers Inc. |
| Stock ticker | USTR |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]USTR[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Poor |
| Sales growth | Poor |
| EPS growth | Fair |
| P/E growth | Good |
| EBIT growth | Poor |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Poor |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $31.22 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $39.62 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $37.68 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $34.28 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ustr
United Stationers Inc. (USI) is a wholesale distributor of business products. USI stocks range of approximately 100,000 products, including technology products, traditional office products, office furniture, janitorial and breakroom supplies, and industrial supplies. The Company’s network of 65 distribution centers allows it to ship products to over 25,000 reseller customers. USI stocks approximately 100,000 products in these categories include technology products, traditional office products, janitorial and breakroom supplies, office furniture and industrial supplies. USI offers private brand products within each of its product categories. These include Innovera technology products, Universal office products, Windsoft paper products, UniSan janitorial and sanitation products, Alera office furniture and Anchor Brand in the welding, industrial, safety and oil field pipeline categories. In November 2012, the Company purchased 100% of O.K.I. Supply (OKI).
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in United Stationers Inc.
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How was this analysis of United Stationers 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: $39.68
- Growth: 0.07
- Current EPS (TTM): $3.28
- P/E: 12
- Future EPS Calc: $4.6
- Future Stock Price Calc: $55.2
- Target stock price: $34.27
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