Gray Television, Inc. ($GTN) Possible Buy to $13 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Gray Television, Inc.
Stock ticker GTN
Live stock price [stckqut]GTN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

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) $19.07
Target stock price (averages with growth) $16.32
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $8.05
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $14.16

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

Gray Television Inc. (Gray) is a broadcast company, which owns and/or operates television stations and digital assets in markets throughout the United States. Gray owns and operates television stations in 44 television markets broadcasting 139 program streams including 76 affiliates of the Big Four networks (ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX). Gray’s owned and/or operated stations include 26 channels affiliated with the CBS Network, 24 channels affiliated with the NBC Network, 16 channels affiliated with the ABC Network and 10 channels affiliated with the FOX Network. Gray reaches approximately 8.1% of total United States television households.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Gray Television, Inc.

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How was this analysis of Gray Television, 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: $12.3
  • Growth: 0.13
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.04
  • P/E: 11.9
  • Future EPS Calc: $1.91
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $22.8
  • Target stock price: $14.15

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