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


MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Fair
Price growth Fair
R&D growth Poor
Income growth Good
Assets growth Fair
Return on Assets growth Good
Income / Rev growth Good
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Poor

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $86.21
Target stock price (averages with growth) $148.24
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $85.09
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $77.62

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/amat/profile?p=amat

Applied Materials, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. This segment also offers various technologies, including epitaxy, ion implantation, oxidation and nitridation, rapid thermal processing, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, electrochemical deposition, atomic layer deposition, etching, and selective removal, as well as metrology and inspection tools. The Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity comprising spares, upgrades, services, remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices, as well as equipment for flexible substrates. The company serves manufacturers of semiconductor wafers and chips, liquid crystal and organic light-emitting diode displays, and other electronic devices. It operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Applied Materials, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Applied Materials, 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.

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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: $55.79
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.14
  • P/E: 16
  • Future EPS Calc: $7.81
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $125.01
  • Target stock price: $77.62

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Company name Align Technology, Inc.
Stock ticker ALGN
Live stock price [stckqut]ALGN[/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
Price growth Good
R&D growth Good
Income growth Good
Assets growth Good
Return on Assets growth Poor
Income / Rev growth Poor
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good


ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $407.56
Target stock price (averages with growth) $203.07
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $150.75
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $405.34

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/algn/profile?p=algn

Align Technology, Inc., a medical device company, designs, manufactures, and markets Invisalign clear aligners and iTero intraoral scanners and services for orthodontists and general practitioner dentists, and restorative and aesthetic dentistry. It operates in two segments, Clear Aligner; and Scanners and Services. The Clear Aligner segment consists of comprehensive products, including Invisalign Comprehensive treatment that addresses the orthodontic needs of teenage patients, such as mandibular advancement, compliance indicators, and compensation for tooth eruption; and Invisalign First Phase I and Invisalign First Comprehensive Phase 2 package for younger patients generally between the ages of seven and ten years, which is a mixture of primary/baby and permanent teeth. This segment’s non-comprehensive products comprise Invisalign Moderate, Lite and Express packages, and Invisalign Go; and non-case products include retention products, Invisalign training fees, and sales of ancillary products, such as cleaning material, and adjusting tools used by dental professionals during the course of treatment. The Scanners and Services segment offers iTero Scanner, a single hardware platform with software options for restorative or orthodontic procedures; restorative software for general practitioner dentists, prosthodontists, periodontists, and oral surgeons; software for orthodontists for digital records storage, orthodontic diagnosis, and for the fabrication of printed models and retainers; computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing services and ancillary products, such as disposable sleeves for the wand; and iTero applications and tools. The company sells its products in the United States, the Netherlands, China, and internationally. Align Technology, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Align Technology, 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: $263.79
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $23.85
  • P/E: 11
  • Future EPS Calc: $59.34
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $652.81
  • Target stock price: $405.34

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ATHM Autohome Inc 5.8076%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. 5.2824%
MTZ MasTec, Inc. 4.908%
HZO MarineMax Inc 4.0125%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc 3.9211%
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BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 3.7566%
LGIH LGI Homes Inc 3.3516%
NSP Insperity Inc 3.0542%
MTCH Match Group Inc 2.8671%
AVGO Broadcom Inc 2.7829%
THRM Gentherm Inc 2.4162%
MEOH Methanex Corporation 2.2676%
ETFC E*TRADE Financial Corp 2.0666%
FIVE Five Below Inc 2.0637%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. 1.9988%
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. 1.9713%
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc 1.9155%
TNET TriNet Group Inc 1.8909%
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. 1.8852%
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc 1.5476%
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V Visa Inc 1.0342%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc 0.8909%
SINA SINA Corp 0.7516%
MA Mastercard Inc 0.7266%
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc 0.7121%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. 0.5594%
COHR Coherent, Inc. 0.5402%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A 0.5185%
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FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock 0.3493%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. 0.3337%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. 0.3264%
CBPO China Biologic Products Holdings Inc 0.31%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation 0.2158%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated 0.195%
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UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.1242%
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EPAM EPAM Systems Inc -0.526%
FTNT Fortinet Inc -0.5596%
SUI Sun Communities Inc -0.5966%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation -0.6895%
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BKNG Booking Holdings Inc -0.9415%
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JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC -1.2566%
SIVB SVB Financial Group -1.3674%
ANET Arista Networks Inc -1.7857%

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Company name Adobe Inc
Stock ticker ADBE
Live stock price [stckqut]ADBE[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Good
Income growth Good
Assets growth Fair
Return on Assets growth Good
Income / Rev growth Good
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $603.27
Target stock price (averages with growth) $509.74
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $488.56
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $601.64

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/adbe/profile?p=adbe

Adobe Inc. operates as a diversified software company worldwide. Its Digital Media segment provides tools and solutions that enable individuals, small and medium businesses, and enterprises to create, publish, promote, and monetize their digital content. Its flagship product is Creative Cloud, a subscription service that allows customer to download and access the latest versions of its creative products. This segment serves traditional content creators, Web application developers, and digital media professionals, as well as their management in marketing departments and agencies, companies, and publishers. The company’s Digital Experience segment offers solutions for how digital advertising and marketing are created, managed, executed, measured, and optimized. This segment provides analytics, social marketing, targeting, media optimization, digital experience management, cross-channel campaign management, marketing automation, audience management, and video delivery and monetization solutions to digital marketers, advertisers, publishers, merchandisers, Web analysts, chief marketing officers, chief information officers, and chief revenue officers. Its Publishing segment offers products and services, such as e-learning solutions, technical document publishing, Web application development, and high-end printing, as well as publishing needs of technical and business, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) printing businesses. The company offers its products and services directly to enterprise customers through its sales force, as well as to end-users through app stores and through its Website at adobe.com. It also distributes products and services through a network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, software vendors and developers, retailers, and OEMs. The company was formerly known as Adobe Systems Incorporated and changed its name to Adobe Inc. in October 2018. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Adobe 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: $390.44
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.6
  • P/E: 59
  • Future EPS Calc: $16.42
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $968.95
  • Target stock price: $601.64

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


MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Good
Income growth Good
Assets growth Good
Return on Assets growth Good
Income / Rev growth Good
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $356.33
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1250.69
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $346.48
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $355.92

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/abmd/profile?p=abmd

Abiomed, Inc. engages in the research, development, and sale of medical devices to assist or replace the pumping function of the failing heart. It also provides continuum of care to heart failure patients. The company offers Impella 2.5 catheter, a percutaneous micro heart pump with integrated motor and sensors for use in interventional cardiology; and Impella CP, a device used by interventional cardiologists to support patients in the cath lab and cardiac surgeons in the heart surgery suite. It also provides Impella 5.0 and Impella LD, which are percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors for use primarily in the heart surgery suite; and Impella RP, a percutaneous catheter-based axial flow pump. In addition, the company engages in the development of Impella 5.5 and Impella BTR that are percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors; and Impella ECP pump that is designed for blood flow of greater than three liters per minute. It sells its products through direct sales and clinical support personnel in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in ABIOMED, Inc. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. It is quite rare for any company to receive a Good rating in all of my measurements above, this company is currently one of the best out there, in my opinion

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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: $230.66
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.43
  • P/E: 52
  • Future EPS Calc: $11.02
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $573.2
  • Target stock price: $355.91

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