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Company name Mercer International Inc.
Stock ticker MERC
Live stock price [stckqut]MERC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $0.28
Target stock price (averages with growth) $0.44
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $0.79
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $4.36

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=merc

Mercer Inc. (Mercer) operates in the pulp business and is the producer of market northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp. The Company’s operations are located in Eastern Germany and Western Canada. The Company produces pulp for resale, which include market pulp in Germany. The Company operates three NBSK pulp mills with a consolidated annual production capacity of approximately 1.5 million air-dried metric tons. The mills include Rosenthal mill, Celgar mill and Stendal mill. The mills constitute to the Company’s individual pulp mills segment. The Company manufactures and sells NBSK pulp produced from wood chips and pulp logs. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company’s mills generated 652,113 megawatt hours, 520,005 megawatt hours and 478,674 megawatt hours, respectively, of surplus energy, primarily from a renewable carbon-neutral source. During the year ended December 3, 2011, the Company sold 652,113 megawatt hours and 520,005 megawatt hours of surplus energy.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.

 

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Company name PAR Technology Corporation
Stock ticker PAR
Live stock price [stckqut]PAR[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=par

PAR Technology Corporation (PAR) conducts business in two business segments: Hospitality and Government. The Hospitality segment offers integrated solutions to the hospitality industry. These offerings include hardware and software applications for restaurants, hotels, resorts and spas. This segment also offers customer support, including field service, installation, twenty-four hour telephone support and depot repair. The Government segment performs complex technical studies, analysis, and experiments, develops solutions, and provides on-site engineering in support of advanced defense, security, and aerospace systems. The Company’s subsidiary PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc (PSMS), provides guest-centric property management solutions to hotels, resorts, spas, casinos, and other hospitality properties worldwide. On January 12, 2012, PAR completed the asset sale of its subsidiary, PAR Logistics Management Systems (PAR LMS), to ORBCOMM Inc.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable.

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Company name Omega Protein Corporation
Stock ticker OME
Live stock price [stckqut]OME[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $0.65
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1.56
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $2.92
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $19.37

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ome

Omega Protein Corporation is a nutritional ingredient company. The Company is a vertically integrated producer of Omega-3 fish oil and specialty fish meal products. The Company is a producer of protein-rich meal and oil derived from marine sources. The Company’s products are produced from menhaden, and include regular grade and value-added specialty fish meals, crude and refined fish oils and fish solubles. The Company produces and sells a variety of protein and oil products derived from menhaden, a species of wild herring-like fish found along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts. It markets several grades of fish meal, as well as fish oil and fish solubles. Its fish meal products are primarily used as a protein ingredient in animal feed for swine, aquaculture and household pets. Its fish solubles are sold primarily to bait manufacturers, aquaculture feed manufacturers and for use as an organic fertilizer. On September 9, 2011, the Company acquired InCon Processing, L.L.C.

 

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Company name First Bancorp
Stock ticker FBNC
Live stock price [stckqut]FBNC[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=fbnc

First Bancorp is a bank holding company. The Company’s principal activity is the ownership and operation of First Bank (the Bank), a state-chartered bank. As of December 31, 2010, the Bank had two wholly owned subsidiaries, First Bank Insurance Services, Inc. (First Bank Insurance) and First Troy SPE, LLC. The Company engages in a range of banking activities, with the acceptance of deposits and the making of loans. For business customers, it offers repurchase agreements (also called securities sold under agreement to repurchase), which are similar to interest-bearing deposits. The Company offers credit cards, debit cards, letters of credit, safe deposit box rentals, bank money orders and electronic funds transfer services, including wire transfers.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable.

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Company name JetBlue Airways Corporation
Stock ticker JBLU
Live stock price [stckqut]JBLU[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $0
Target stock price (averages with growth) $0.11
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $0.53
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $5.21

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=jblu

JetBlue Airways Corporation (JetBlue) is a passenger airline that operates primarily on point-to-point routes with its fleet of 120 Airbus A320 aircraft and 49 EMBRAER 190 aircraft. As of December 31, 2011, it served 70 destinations in 22 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico and 12 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. Most of JetBlue flights have as an origin or destination New York or one of its other focus cities: Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Orlando or San Juan, Puerto Rico. As of December 31, 2011, the Company operated an average of 700 daily flights. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company acquired eight take-off and landing slots at each of New York�s LaGuardia Airport and Washington D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport. The Company�s operations primarily consist of transporting passengers on its aircraft with domestic United States operations, including Puerto Rico, which accounted for 85% of its capacity in 2011.

Confident Investor comments: I struggle with finding an airline that is worth my investment. At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.