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Company name Match Group Inc
Stock ticker MTCH
Live stock price [stckqut]MTCH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBITDA growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Good
Income growth Good
Assets growth Poor
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) $141.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $194.29
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $164.7
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $127.64

 

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

Match Group, Inc. provides dating products worldwide. It operates a portfolio of brands, including Tinder, Match, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, Pairs, PlentyOfFish, and OurTime, as well as various other brands. Match Group, Inc. offers its dating products through mobile applications, and desktop and mobile-web in approximately 40 languages. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Match Group, Inc. is a subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Match Group 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: $91.72
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2
  • P/E: 41.3051674784947
  • Future EPS Calc: $4.97
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $205.56
  • Target stock price: $127.63

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I think MasTec, Inc. ($MTZ) is a Possible Buy. It currently should be $77. Confident Investor Rating: Good

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

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBITDA growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Poor
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) $69.38
Target stock price (averages with growth) $129.94
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $170.66
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $82.87

 

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

MasTec, Inc., an infrastructure construction company, provides engineering, building, installation, maintenance, and upgrade services for communications, energy, utility, and other infrastructure primarily in the United States and Canada. It operates through five segments: Communications, Oil and Gas, Electrical Transmission, Power Generation and Industrial, and Other. The company builds underground and overhead distribution systems, including trenches, conduits, cell towers, cable, and power lines, which provide wireless and wireline/fiber communications; natural gas, crude oil, and refined product transport pipelines; electrical power generation, transmission, and distribution systems; power generation infrastructure, such as renewable energy; heavy industrial plants; compressor and pump stations, and treatment plants; water and sewer infrastructure, including water pipelines; and other civil construction infrastructure. It also installs electrical and other energy distribution and transmission systems, power generation facilities, buried and aerial fiber optic and other cables, and satellite dishes, as well as home automation and energy management solutions. In addition, the company offers maintenance and upgrade support services comprising maintenance of customers’ distribution facilities, networks, and infrastructure, including natural gas and petroleum pipeline, communications, electrical distribution and transmission, power generation, and heavy civil infrastructure; emergency services for accidents or storm damage; and routine replacements and upgrades to overhauls. Its customers include public and private energy providers, pipeline operators, wireless and wireline/fiber service providers, broadband operators, install-to-the-home service providers, and government entities. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in MasTec, 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: $44.93
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $7
  • P/E: 7.66248649876212
  • Future EPS Calc: $17.41
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $133.46
  • Target stock price: $82.87

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Company name MarketAxess Holdings Inc.
Stock ticker MKTX
Live stock price [stckqut]MKTX[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBITDA growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Poor
Income growth Good
Assets growth Fair
Return on Assets growth Fair
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) $773.06
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1561.12
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $1423.49
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $805.24

 

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

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform that enables fixed-income market participants to trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments worldwide. It offers institutional investor and broker-dealer firms the access to global liquidity in U.S. investment-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets and high-yield bonds, Eurobonds, U.S. agency bonds, municipal bonds, leveraged loans, and other fixed-income securities. The company, through its Open Trading protocols, executes bond trades between and among institutional investor and broker-dealer clients in an all-to-all anonymous trading environment for corporate bonds. It also offers trading-related products and services, including Composite+ pricing and other market data products to assist clients with trading decisions; auto-execution and other execution services for clients requiring specialized workflow solutions; connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing; and technology services to optimize trading environments. In addition, the company offers a range of pre-and post-trade services, such as trade matching, trade publication, regulatory transaction reporting, and market and reference data across a range of fixed-income and other products. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in MarketAxess 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: $500.89
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $7
  • P/E: 74.4533750357286
  • Future EPS Calc: $17.41
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $1296.84
  • Target stock price: $805.23

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

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $169.89
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1378.28
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $711.4
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $205.8

 

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

MKS Instruments, Inc. provides instruments, systems, subsystems, and process control solutions that measure, monitor, deliver, analyze, power, and control critical parameters of manufacturing processes worldwide. Its Vacuum & Analysis segment offers pressure and vacuum control solutions, including direct and indirect pressure measurement; materials delivery solutions comprising flow and valve technologies, as well as integrated pressure measurement and control subsystems, which provide customers with precise control capabilities; power delivery products, such as microwave, power delivery systems, radio frequency matching networks, and metrology products used in providing energy to etching, stripping, and deposition processes; and plasma and reactive gas products. The company’s Light & Motion segment offers lasers and laser-based systems, such as amplifiers, fiber lasers, diode-pumped solid-state lasers, high-energy pulsed lasers, and tunable lasers; and photonics products comprising optical components, lens assemblies, and vibration isolation solutions, as well as instruments and motion products, such as high-precision motion stages and controls, hexapods, photonics instruments for measurement and analysis, and production equipment for test and measurement. Its Equipment & Solutions segment provides laser-based systems for printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing, including flexible interconnect PCB processing systems and HDI solutions for rigid PCB manufacturing and substrate processing, as well as passive component MLCC testing. The company serves semiconductor, industrial technologies, life and health sciences, research, and defense markets. It markets and sells its products and services through its direct sales organization, independent distributors, and sales representatives, as well as through its websites and product catalogs. MKS Instruments, Inc. was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in MKS Instruments, 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 MKS Instruments, 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: $109.66
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4
  • P/E: 33.2996222825497
  • Future EPS Calc: $9.95
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $331.44
  • Target stock price: $205.79

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

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBITDA growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Poor
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) $364.76
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1228.81
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $1092.35
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $314.49

 

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

Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. It facilitates the processing of payment transactions, including authorization, clearing, and settlement, as well as delivers related products and services. The company offers integrated products and services for account holders, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, governments, and other organizations, such as programs that enable issuers to provide consumers with credits to defer payments; payment products and solutions that allow its customers to access funds in deposit and other accounts; prepaid payment programs and management services; and commercial payment products and solutions. It also provides value-added products and services comprising safety and security products, loyalty and reward programs, information and analytics services, consulting services, and issuer and acquirer processing services. The company offers payment solutions and services under the MasterCard, Maestro, and Cirrus brands. Mastercard Incorporated has strategic partnerships with Network International to develop electronic payments in Africa and the Middle East; and R3 to develop and pilot a new blockchain-enabled cross-border payments solution, as well as a strategic alliance with Finexio. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Mastercard 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 Mastercard 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: $297.79
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $8
  • P/E: 35.9246972268013
  • Future EPS Calc: $14.09
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $506.49
  • Target stock price: $314.49

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