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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $130.92
Target stock price (averages with growth) $116.73
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $116.73
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $117.04

 

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

Coherent, Inc., incorporated on January 11, 1989, is a photonics manufacturer. The Company is engaged in designing, manufacturing, servicing and marketing of lasers and related accessories for a range of scientific, commercial and industrial applications. The Company operates through two segments: Specialty Lasers and Systems (SLS) and Commercial Lasers and Components (CLC). The Specialty Lasers and Systems segment develops and manufactures configurable products serving the microelectronics, scientific research and government programs, and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) components and instrumentation markets. The Commercial Lasers and Components segment focuses on higher volume products that are offered in set configurations. The product architectures are designed for exchange at the point of use such that substantially all product service and repairs are based upon advanced replacement and depot (that is factory) repair. CLC’s primary markets include materials processing, OEM components, and instrumentation and microelectronics.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Coherent, Inc. 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: $113.72
  • Growth: 0.11
  • Current EPS (TTM): $7.99
  • P/E: 14
  • Future EPS Calc: $13.46
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $188.49
  • Target stock price: $117.03

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Company name China Biologic Products Holdings Inc
Stock ticker CBPO
Live stock price [stckqut]CBPO[/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) $139.17
Target stock price (averages with growth) $95.37
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $95.37
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $107.17

 

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

China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is principally engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and sales of human plasma-based biopharmaceutical products in China. It operates through the manufacture and sales of human plasma products segment. China Biologic has a product portfolio with over 20 various dosage forms of plasma products and other biopharmaceutical products across nine categories.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in China Biologic Products Holdings Inc 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: $89.93
  • Growth: 0.14
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.32
  • P/E: 27
  • Future EPS Calc: $6.39
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $172.59
  • Target stock price: $107.16

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Company name Booking Holdings Inc
Stock ticker BKNG
Live stock price [stckqut]BKNG[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $2139.5
Target stock price (averages with growth) $2020.59
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $2020.59
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $1996.2

 

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

Booking Holdings Inc., formerly The Priceline Group Inc., incorporated on July 30, 1998, is a provider of travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The Company, through its online travel companies (OTCs), connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. It offers consumers an array of accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands. Its other brands include KAYAK, Rentalcars.com and OpenTable, Inc. (OpenTable).

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Booking Holdings Inc 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: $1685.8
  • Growth: 0.14
  • Current EPS (TTM): $87.88
  • P/E: 19
  • Future EPS Calc: $169.2
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $3214.9
  • Target stock price: $1996.2

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Company name Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Stock ticker BABA
Live stock price [stckqut]BABA[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $239.
Target stock price (averages with growth) $239.
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $239.
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $239.3

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

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, incorporated on June 28, 1999, is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company is principally engaged in online and mobile commerce through offering of products, services and technology that enable merchants, brands and other businesses to transform the way they market, sell and operate in the People’s Republic of China (China) and internationally. The Company’s businesses consist of core commerce, cloud computing, mobile media and entertainment, and other innovation initiatives. Through investee affiliates, it also participates in the logistics and local services sectors. Retail commerce in China operated by the Company includes the China online commerce destination (Taobao Marketplace); the China third-party platform for brands and retailers (Tmall), and the sales and marketing platform for flash sales (Juhuasuan). Wholesale commerce in China operated by the Company includes the China domestic wholesale marketplace (1688.com). International and cross-border commerce operated by the Company includes the global marketplace targeting consumers from around the world to buy directly from manufacturers and distributors in China (AliExpress); a platform within the Tmall for overseas brands and retailers to reach Chinese consumers without the need for physical operations in China (Tmall Global), and the wholesale marketplace for global trade (Alibaba.com).

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 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: $154.81
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.84
  • P/E: 32
  • Future EPS Calc: $12.04
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $385.39
  • Target stock price: $239.29

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Company name Broadcom Inc
Stock ticker AVGO
Live stock price [stckqut]AVGO[/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) $393.22
Target stock price (averages with growth) $356.2
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $356.2
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $362.52

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

Broadcom Inc., formerly Broadcom Limited, incorporated on March 3, 2015, is a designer, developer and global supplier of a range of semiconductor devices with a focus on digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based devices and analog III-V based products. The Company operates through four segments: Wired Infrastructure, Wireless Communications, Enterprise Storage and Industrial & Other. It offers a range of products that are used in end-products, such as enterprise and data center networking, home connectivity, set-top boxes (STBs), broadband access, telecommunication equipment, smartphones, data center servers and storage systems, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and electronic displays. Its product portfolio ranges from discrete devices to complex sub-systems that include multiple device types, and also includes firmware for interfacing between analog and digital systems. Its products include mechanical hardware that interfaces with optoelectronic or capacitive sensors.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Broadcom Inc 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: $254.48
  • Growth: 0.18
  • Current EPS (TTM): $11.6
  • P/E: 22
  • Future EPS Calc: $26.53
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $583.83
  • Target stock price: $362.51

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