| Company name | SanDisk Corporation |
| Stock ticker | SNDK |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]SNDK[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Fair |
| Sales growth | Poor |
| EPS growth | Poor |
| P/E growth | Good |
| EBIT growth | Poor |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Poor |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $20.62 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $13.46 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $10.48 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $34.33 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=sndk
SanDisk Corporation provides flash storage solutions. The Company designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a variety of form factors using flash memory, controller, firmware and software technologies. The Company’s solutions include a range of solid state drives (SSD), embedded products, removable cards, universal serial bus (USB), drives, wireless media drives, digital media players, and wafers and components. The SSD products are used in enterprise data centers and client computing platforms. Its embedded flash products are used in mobile phones, tablets, computing platforms, imaging devices and automobiles. The Company’s removable cards are used in a range of applications, such as mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, gaming devices, personal computers (PC) and automobiles. It also offers software solutions, which are used in conjunction with flash storage products.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in SanDisk Corporation. I am removing the stock from my Watch List.
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How was this analysis of SanDisk 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: $48.75
- Growth: 0.03
- Current EPS (TTM): $2.51
- P/E: 19
- Future EPS Calc: $2.9
- Future Stock Price Calc: $55.28
- Target stock price: $34.32
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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.