CA, Inc. ($CA) Cautious Buy or Hold to $35 Confident Investor Rating: Fair

Company name CA, Inc.
Stock ticker CA
Live stock price [stckqut]CA[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $36.05
Target stock price (averages with growth) $194.8
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $303.68
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $27.93

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

CA, Inc. (CA) is an independent enterprise information technology (IT) management software and solutions company. CA develops and delivers software and services. The Company operates in three segments: Mainframe Solutions, Enterprise Solutions and Services. The Company addresses components of the computing environment, including people, information, processes, systems, networks, applications and databases, across hardware and software platforms and programs. It offers a portfolio of software solutions, including mainframe; service assurance; security (identity and access management); service and portfolio management, and virtualization and service automation. It delivers its products on-premises or, for certain products, using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In June 2013, the Company announced it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Layer 7 Technologies.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in CA, Inc. as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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How was this analysis of CA, 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: $29.49
  • Growth: 0.09
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.72
  • P/E: 17
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.64
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $44.98
  • Target stock price: $27.93

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