ABIOMED, Inc. ($ABMD) Possible Buy to $117 Confident Investor Rating: Good
Company name | ABIOMED, Inc. |
Stock ticker | ABMD |
Live stock price | [stckqut]ABMD[/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 |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Good |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $153.31 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $169.57 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $77.13 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $151.03 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=abmd
Abiomed, Inc. is a provider of temporary percutaneous mechanical circulatory support devices. The Company offers care to heart failure patients. The Company’s products include Impella 2.5, a percutaneous micro heart pump with an integrated motor and sensors; Impella CP, which is primarily used by either interventional cardiologists to support patients in the catheter lab or by surgeons in the heart surgery suite; Impella 5.0 and Impella LD, a percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors for use primarily in the heart surgery suite; Impella RP, a percutaneous catheter-based axial flow pump that is designed to allow greater than four liters of flow per minute; AB5000, a circulatory support system for the temporary support of acute heart failure patients in profound shock, and Symphony, a minimally invasive implantable cardiac assist device.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in ABIOMED, Inc..
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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: $99.23
- Growth: 0.2
- Current EPS (TTM): $0.85
- P/E: 115
- Future EPS Calc: $2.11
- Future Stock Price Calc: $243.23
- Target stock price: $151.02
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