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Company name Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
Stock ticker KND
Live stock price [stckqut]KND[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Fair
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $16.25
Target stock price (averages with growth) $20.23
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $18.43
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $18.78

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

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. is a healthcare services company that through its subsidiaries operates hospitals, nursing and rehabilitation centers, assisted living facilities and a contract rehabilitation services business across the United States. The Company operates in three divisions: the hospital division, which operates LTAC hospitals; the nursing center division, which operates nursing and rehabilitation centers and assisted living facilities, and the rehabilitation division, which provides rehabilitation services primarily in long-term care settings. At December 31, 2010, its hospital division operated 89 long-term acute care (LTAC) hospitals (6,887 licensed beds) in 24 states. Its nursing center division operated 226 nursing and rehabilitation centers and seven assisted living facilities (27,905 licensed beds) in 28 states. It also operates a contract rehabilitation services business that provides rehabilitative services in long-term care settings.

Confident Investor comments: One would think that this company in this market segment would be performing better than it currently is performing. 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 Thomas & Betts Corporation
Stock ticker TNB
Live stock price [stckqut]TNB[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Fair
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $32
Target stock price (averages with growth) $27.35
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $23.53
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $39.98

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

Thomas & Betts Corporation is a designer and manufacturer of essential components used to manage the connection, distribution, transmission and reliability of electrical products in industrial, construction and utility applications. The Company is a producer of commercial heating and ventilation units used in commercial and industrial buildings and engineered steel structures used for utility transmission. It has operations in over 20 countries. It operates in three segments: Electrical, Steel Structures and Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC). It sellsits products through channels, including electrical, utility, telephone, cable, and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning distributors; mass merchandisers, catalog merchandisers and home improvement centers, and directly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), utilities and certain end-users.

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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Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. – $OEH – Confident Investor Rating: Poor

Company name Orient-Express Hotels Ltd.
Stock ticker OEH
Live stock price [stckqut]OEH[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

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

Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (OEH), is a hotel and leisure company, operating in 24 countries, across five continents. The Company owns or part-owns 50 properties (all of which it manages), consisting of 41 individual deluxe hotels, including two hotels in Sicily purchased in January 2010, one stand-alone restaurant, six tourist trains and two river/canal cruise businesses. The Company also has several real estate developments adjoining some of its hotels. OEH’s worldwide portfolio of hotels consists of 3570 individual guest rooms and suites.

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 Morningstar, Inc.
Stock ticker MORN
Live stock price [stckqut]MORN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $54.02
Target stock price (averages with growth) $62.31
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $53.1
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $55.17

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

Morningstar, Inc. (Morningstar) is a provider of independent investment research to investors around the world. The Company offers a line of data, software, and research products for individual investors, financial advisors, and institutional clients through its Investment Information segment. Its also provides asset management services for advisors, institutions, and retirement plan participants. In addition to its United States-based products and services, the Company offers local versions of its products designed for investors in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, and South Africa. The Company operates its business in two segments: Investment Information, which includes all of its data, software, and research products and services, and Investment Management, which includes all of its asset management operations, which operate as registered investment advisors. It serves approximately 7.4 million individual investors, 245,000 financial advisors, and 4,200 institutional clients.

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 Silicon Graphics International Corp
Stock ticker SGI
Live stock price [stckqut]SGI[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

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

Silicon Graphics International Corp., formerly Rackable Systems Inc., is a provider of clustered computing and storage, high-performance compute and storage, and data center technologies integrated with a choice of software, customer support services and professional services. It develops, markets and sells a range of low cost, mid-range and high-end computing servers and data storage, as well as differentiating software. It sells data center infrastructure products purpose-built for large-scale data center deployments. The Company groups its products into six categories: Scale Up Servers, Scale Out Servers, Workgroup Servers, Data Storage Systems, Software and Data Center Infrastructure. On May 8, 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of all of the assets of Silicon Graphics, Inc. On February 23, 2010, the Company completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Copan Systems, 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.