Company name JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Stock ticker JPM
Live stock price [stckqut]JPM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $76.92
Target stock price (averages with growth) $68.51
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $35.74
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $71.41

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

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) is a financial holding company. The Company is a financial service firm and banking institution. The Firm provides investment banking; financial services for consumers and small businesses; commercial banking; financial transaction processing; asset management and private equity. The Company operates in five segments: Consumer & Community banking serve consumers and businesses through personal service at bank branches and through automated teller machines, online, mobile and telephone banking; Corporate & Investment Bank consists of Banking, and Markets and Investor Services; Commercial Banking delivers services, including corporations, municipalities, financial institutions and nonprofit entities; Asset Management provides investment and wealth management, and Corporate/Private Equity consists of Private Equity, Treasury and Chief Investment Office and Other Corporate.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in JPMorgan Chase & Co. 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 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 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: $68.11
  • Growth: 0.11
  • Current EPS (TTM): $5.46
  • P/E: 12.5
  • Future EPS Calc: $9.2
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $115
  • Target stock price: $71.4

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