Daily Confident Investor Indicator Analysis August 30, 2014
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Stratasys, Ltd. – $SSYS – Confident Investor Rating: Poor
Company name | Stratasys, Ltd. |
Stock ticker | SSYS |
Live stock price | [stckqut]SSYS[/stckqut] |
Confident Investor Rating | Poor |
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Stratasys, Ltd. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable.
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Daily Confident Investor Indicator Analysis August 29, 2014
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Symantec Corporation ($SYMC) Cautious Buy or Hold to $28 Confident Investor Rating: Fair
Company name | Symantec Corporation |
Stock ticker | SYMC |
Live stock price | [stckqut]SYMC[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Good |
Sales growth | Poor |
EPS growth | Poor |
P/E growth | Good |
EBIT growth | Poor |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $25.7 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $38.45 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $41.37 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $23.63 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=symc
Symantec Corporation, is a security, backup and availability solutions. The Company’s products and services protect people and information in any digital environment from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems. The Company’s software and services protect against advanced threats independent of the device and environment in which information is used or stored. The Company operated in five segments: Consumer, Security and Compliance, Storage and Server Management, Services, and Other. Effective May 28, 2014, Symantec Corp acquired NitroDesk Inc, a Bellevue-based developer of email security software.
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Symantec Corporation 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 Symantec Corporation 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: $24.04
- Growth: 0.1
- Current EPS (TTM): $1.39
- P/E: 17
- Future EPS Calc: $2.23
- Future Stock Price Calc: $38.05
- Target stock price: $23.63
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