Ulta Beauty Inc ($ULTA) Possible Buy to $382 Confident Investor Rating: Good

 

Company name Ulta Beauty Inc
Stock ticker ULTA
Live stock price [stckqut]ULTA[/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) $533.86
Target stock price (averages with growth) $209.87
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $498.05
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $490.5

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

Ulta Beauty, Inc. is a holding company for the Ulta Beauty group of companies. The Company is a beauty retailer. The Company offers cosmetics, fragrance, skin, hair care products and salon services.

The Company offers approximately 20,000 products from over 500 beauty brands across all categories, including the Company’s own private label. The Company also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring hair, skin and brow services. The Company operates approximately 970 retail stores across over 48 states and the District of Columbia and also distributes its products through its Website, which includes a collection of tips, tutorials and social content. The Company offers makeup products, such as foundation, face powder, concealer, color correcting, face primer, blush, bronzer, contouring, highlighter, setting spray, shine control, makeup remover, eyeshadow palettes, mascara, eyeliner, nail polish, cleansers, moisturizers, serums, suncare products, shampoos, conditioners, hair styling products, hair styling tools and perfumes. The Company also offers makeup brushes and tools, and makeup bags and cases.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Ulta Beauty 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 Ulta Beauty Inc calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]

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: $345.17
  • Growth: 0.18
  • Current EPS (TTM): $11.51
  • P/E: 30
  • Future EPS Calc: $26.33
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $789.96
  • Target stock price: $490.5

[/s2If]
I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.