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As of right now, Yahoo’s [stckqut]YHOO[/stckqut] 15% stake of Alibaba is worth almost $35 billion. The conventional thought is that once Yahoo spins off its stake, Alibaba will then one day buy it back. If not, there would essentially be two publicly-traded forms of Alibaba with a very similar number of shares available to the market. But here’s the thing, if you subtract Yahoo’s Alibaba stake and its cash & equivalents, the remaining value of Yahoo’s core business is zero dollars.

Source: Why Alibaba Should Buy Yahoo, Right Now – Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) | Seeking Alpha

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Company name Gulfport Energy Corporation
Stock ticker GPOR
Live stock price [stckqut]GPOR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $71.89
Target stock price (averages with growth) $79.4
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $35.98
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $72.03

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

Gulfport Energy Corporation is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on the exploration, exploitation, acquisition and production of crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas in the United States. It has developed an oil and natural gas portfolio of proved reserves, as well as development and exploratory drilling opportunities on high potential conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas prospects. Its principal properties are located in the Utica Shale in Eastern Ohio and along the Louisiana Gulf Coast in the West Cote Blanche Bay, or WCBB, and Hackberry fields. The Company has producing properties in the Niobrara Formation of Northwestern Colorado and the Bakken Formation.

 

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

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How was this analysis of Gulfport Energy 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: $46.46
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.22
  • P/E: 21
  • Future EPS Calc: $5.52
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $116
  • Target stock price: $72.03

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Many Apple [stckqut]AAPL[/stckqut] fans, investors, and analysts were surprised when The Wall Street Journal reported Cupertino has shelved its plans to bring a ultra-high definition television set to market over a year ago. According to “people familiar with the matter,” Apple could not differentiate from TV sets on the market enough with compelling, breakthrough features in order to justify its entrance into a competitive market.

Among Apple analysts, the news that Apple shelved its television plans came as a surprise to some and confirmation to others. Count Piper Jaffray’s Apple analyst, Gene Munster, among the surprised, has perhaps been the most vocal about Apple’s TV plans, warning fans that Apple TV was coming to market as early as 2011. In an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley,” Munster appeared downright solemn with his mea culpa: “This is a tough day for me. It’s a hard reality to accept, and I think that is the reality of it: the TV is on hold.”

Others, myself fortunately included, thought Apple’s plans for a television would not come to fruition for a simple reason: gross margins. Simply put, the television business isn’t as lucrative as Apple desires and it appears Apple could not find enough truly differentiating features to justify higher-cost, premium TV sets. For Apple investors, that’s important insight into this company.

Source: Apple Inc. Isn’t Making a TV Set: Here’s Why It Matters (AAPL)