Company name Heska Corp
Stock ticker HSKA
Live stock price [stckqut]HSKA[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $159.69
Target stock price (averages with growth) $235.09
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $159.69
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $157.64

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/hska

Heska Corporation, incorporated on March 27, 1997, sells veterinary diagnostic and specialty products. The Company operates through two segments: Core Companion Animal Health (CCA) and Other Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals and Products (OVP). The CCA segment includes, primarily for canine and feline use, blood testing instruments and supplies, digital imaging products, software and services, local and cloud-based data services, allergy testing and immunotherapy, and single-use offerings, such as in-clinic diagnostic tests and heartworm preventive products. Its OVP segment includes private label vaccine and pharmaceutical production, primarily for cattle but also for other species, including equine, porcine, avian, feline and canine. All OVP products are sold by third parties under third-party labels. The Company focuses on supporting veterinarians in the canine and feline healthcare space.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Heska Corp as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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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: $103.56
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.79
  • P/E: 57
  • Future EPS Calc: $4.45
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $253.88
  • Target stock price: $157.64

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Company name Hudson Technologies, Inc.
Stock ticker HDSN
Live stock price [stckqut]HDSN[/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) $4.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $3.32
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $2.25
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $.65

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/hdsn

Hudson Technologies, Inc., incorporated on January 11, 1991, is a refrigerant services company. The Company’s products and services are primarily used in commercial air conditioning, industrial processing, and refrigeration systems, and include refrigerant and industrial gas sales, refrigerant management services consisting primarily of reclamation of refrigerants and RefrigerantSide Services performed at a customer’s site, consisting of system decontamination to remove moisture, oils and other contaminants. In addition, the Company’s SmartEnergy OPS service is a Web-based real-time continuous monitoring service applicable to a facility’s refrigeration systems and other energy systems. The Company’s Chiller Chemistry and Chill Smart services are also predictive and diagnostic service offerings. The Company sells reclaimed and virgin (new) refrigerants to a variety of customers in various segments of the air conditioning and refrigeration industry, and sells industrial gases to a variety of industry segments.

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

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How was this analysis of Hudson Technologies, 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: $2.4
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.02
  • P/E: 21
  • Future EPS Calc: $0.04
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $1.04
  • Target stock price: $0.64

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Company name Genesee & Wyoming Inc
Stock ticker GWR
Live stock price [stckqut]GWR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $120.25
Target stock price (averages with growth) $170.24
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $115.64
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $82.96

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/gwr

Genesee & Wyoming Inc., incorporated on September 1, 1977, owns and operates freight railroads across the world. As of December 31, 2016, the Company owned or leased 122 freight railroads worldwide that are organized in 10 operating regions. The Company operates through three segments, which include North American Operations, Australian Operations, and U.K./European Operations. In North America, the Company has operations in eight regions, such as Central, Coastal (which includes industrial switching and port operations), Midwest, Mountain West (which includes industrial switching operations), Northeast, Pacific, Southern, and Canada. Outside the United States, the Company has operations in two regions: Australia and the United Kingdom/Europe (which consists of operations in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland, as well as the provision of management and technical support through Freightliner to Saudi Arabia Railway Company).

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Genesee & Wyoming Inc as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I am removing Genessee & Wyoming from my Watch List as I think there are better investments on the market.

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How was this analysis of Genesee & Wyoming 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: $77.8
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.61
  • P/E: 21
  • Future EPS Calc: $6.36
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $133.6
  • Target stock price: $82.95

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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 Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $17.
Target stock price (averages with growth) $18.54
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $12.59
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $10.9

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/gtn

Gray Television, Inc., incorporated on January 25, 1897, is a television broadcast company. The Company owns and operates television stations and digital assets in various markets across the United States. As of February 21, 2017, the Company owned and/or operated television stations in 54 television markets broadcasting over 200 separate programming streams, including 37 affiliates of the CBS Network (CBS), 29 affiliates of the NBC Network (NBC), 20 affiliates of the ABC Network (ABC) and 15 affiliates of the FOX Network (FOX). In addition to a primary broadcast channel, each of its stations can also broadcast additional secondary digital channels within a market by utilizing the same bandwidth, but with different programming from the primary channel.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Gray Television, Inc. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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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: $11
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.66
  • P/E: 6
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.92
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $17.55
  • Target stock price: $10.89

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Company name Alphabet Inc
Stock ticker GOOGL
Live stock price [stckqut]GOOGL[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $1231.65
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1745.45
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $1348.75
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $1207.61

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/googl

Alphabet Inc., incorporated on July 23, 2015, is a holding company. The Company’s businesses include Google Inc. (Google) and its Internet products, such as Access, Calico, CapitalG, GV, Nest, Verily, Waymo and X. The Company’s segments include Google and Other Bets. The Google segment includes its Internet products, such as Search, Ads, Commerce, Maps, YouTube, Google Cloud, Android, Chrome and Google Play, as well as its hardware initiatives. The Google segment is engaged in advertising, sales of digital content, applications and cloud offerings, and sales of hardware products. The Other Bets segment is engaged in the sales of Internet and television services through Google Fiber, sales of Nest products and services, and licensing and research and development (R&D) services through Verily.

Google is engaged in investing in infrastructure, data management, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). The Company offers Google Assistant, which allows users to type or talk with Google in a natural conversational way to help them get things done; Google Maps, which helps users navigate to a store while showing them current traffic conditions, and Google Photos, which helps users store and organize all of their photos. The Company invests in platforms, such as Chrome browser, Android mobile operating system, Chrome operating system and Daydream virtual reality platform, as well as its hardware devices, such as the Pixel phone and Google Home.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Alphabet Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of Alphabet 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: $1068.07
  • Growth: 0.13
  • Current EPS (TTM): $37.7
  • P/E: 28
  • Future EPS Calc: $69.45
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $1944.87
  • Target stock price: $1207.61

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