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Company name 3D Systems Corporation
Stock ticker DDD
Live stock price [stckqut]DDD[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $38.91
Target stock price (averages with growth) $42.99
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $19.5
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $31.46

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

3D Systems Corporation is a holding company. The Company is a provider of three-dimensional (3D) printing centric solutions. It provides 3D design-to-manufacturing solutions, including 3D printers, print materials and cloud sourced custom parts. Its healthcare solutions include end-to-end simulation, training and planning and printing of surgical instruments and devices for personalized surgery and patient specific medical and dental devices. It also provides software and haptic and perceptual devices for design, including 3D digital design, scan-to-computer-aided design (CAD), scan-to-print, reverse engineering, inspection, sculpting and medical modeling and simulation applications. For its healthcare customers it also offers virtual surgical planning and medical modeling services, digitizing scanners and simulation products. The Company operates in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific regions.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in 3D Systems Corporation.

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How was this analysis of 3D Systems 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: $24.92
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.11
  • P/E: 229
  • Future EPS Calc: $0.22
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $50.66
  • Target stock price: $31.45

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Company name Darling Ingredients Inc
Stock ticker DAR
Live stock price [stckqut]DAR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $21.48
Target stock price (averages with growth) $15.4
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $7.04
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $18.58

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

Darling Ingredients Inc., formerly Darling International Inc., is a developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the food, pet food, pharmaceutical, feed, fuel, bioenergy and fertilizer industries. The Company operates in three segments: Feed Ingredients, which includes the edible and inedible animal by-products, bakery and hides business lines; Food Ingredients, which includes the gelatin, casings and edible fats business lines, and Fuel Ingredients, which includes the biofuel and bioenergy business lines. With operations on five continents, the Company recycles all aspects of animal by-product streams into useable and specialty ingredients, such as gelatin, tallow, feed-grade fats, meat and bone meal, poultry meal, yellow grease, fuel feed stocks, green energy, natural casings and hides.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Darling Ingredients Inc as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I am removing the company from my Watch List.

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How was this analysis of Darling Ingredients 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: $13.86
  • Growth: 0.17
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.39
  • P/E: 35
  • Future EPS Calc: $0.85
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $29.92
  • Target stock price: $18.58

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