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Company name SanDisk Corporation
Stock ticker SNDK
Live stock price [stckqut]SNDK[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $20.62
Target stock price (averages with growth) $13.46
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $10.48
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $34.33

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

SanDisk Corporation provides flash storage solutions. The Company designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a variety of form factors using flash memory, controller, firmware and software technologies. The Company’s solutions include a range of solid state drives (SSD), embedded products, removable cards, universal serial bus (USB), drives, wireless media drives, digital media players, and wafers and components. The SSD products are used in enterprise data centers and client computing platforms. Its embedded flash products are used in mobile phones, tablets, computing platforms, imaging devices and automobiles. The Company’s removable cards are used in a range of applications, such as mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, gaming devices, personal computers (PC) and automobiles. It also offers software solutions, which are used in conjunction with flash storage products.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in SanDisk Corporation. I am removing the stock from my Watch List.

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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: $48.75
  • Growth: 0.03
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.51
  • P/E: 19
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.9
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $55.28
  • Target stock price: $34.32

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Company name Panera Bread Co
Stock ticker PNRA
Live stock price [stckqut]PNRA[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $187.71
Target stock price (averages with growth) $177.71
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $100.49
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $209.93

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

Panera Bread Company (Panera) is a food service provider. Panera is a national bakery-cafe concept with 1,880 Company-owned and franchise-operated bakery-cafe locations in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and Ontario, Canada. The Company operates through three segments: Company Bakery-Cafe Operations, Franchise Operations, and Fresh Dough and Other Product Operations. As of December 30, 2014, its Company bakery-cafe operations segment consisted of 925 Company-owned bakery-cafes and its franchise operations segment consisted of 955 franchise-operated bakery-cafes, located throughout the United States and in Ontario, Canada. As of December 30, 2014, its fresh dough and other product operations segment, which supplies fresh dough and other products daily to the Company-owned and franchise-operated bakery-cafes, consisted of 24 fresh dough facilities (22 Company-owned and two franchise-operated), located throughout the United States and one in Ontario, Canada.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Panera Bread Co. I will be removing it from my Watch List.

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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: $201.92
  • Growth: 0.11
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.08
  • P/E: 33
  • Future EPS Calc: $10.24
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $338.09
  • Target stock price: $209.92

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Company name Annaly Capital Management, Inc.
Stock ticker NLY
Live stock price [stckqut]NLY[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

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

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. is a mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company uses its capital coupled with borrowed funds to invest in real estate related investments, earning the spread between the yield on its assets and the cost of its borrowings. It owns a portfolio of real estate related investments, including mortgage pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), Agency callable debentures, other securities representing interests in or obligations backed by pools of mortgage loans, commercial real estate assets and corporate debt. The Company’s business operations consist of Annaly (the parent company), Annaly Commercial Real Estate Group, Inc. (ACREG), RCap Securities, Inc., Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company (FIDAC), Annaly Middle Market Lending LLC and Shannon Funding LLC.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Annaly Capital Management, Inc. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable. I have removed this stock from my Watch List.
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Company name Equinix Inc
Stock ticker EQIX
Live stock price [stckqut]EQIX[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

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

Equinix, Inc., is a networking company. The Company engages in connecting businesses to their customers and partners inside networked data centers. Platform Equinix combines a footprint of International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers, interconnection opportunities, and ecosystems. The Company provides data center offerings comprised of colocation, interconnection solutions and managed IT infrastructure services. Colocation and Related Offerings, IBX data centers provide customers with environments necessary for optimum Internet commerce interconnection as well as offer Cabinets for colocating networking, server and storage equipment, Power for AC and DC power circuits with amperages and phases, and IBXflex to deploy mission-critical operations personnel and equipment. Interconnection Solutions, enable scalable, interconnection and traffic exchange between customers. Managed IT Infrastructure Services, provide multi-network management and outsourced IT services.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Equinix Inc. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable. I am removing this company from my Watch List.
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Company name Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA (ADR)
Stock ticker BVN
Live stock price [stckqut]BVN[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

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

Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA (Buenaventura) is a Peru-based mining company engaged in the exploration, mining, smelting and commercialization of gold and silver, as well as other metals and minerals. The Company operates directly seven Peruvian mining units located in Uchucchacua, Orcopampa, Poracota, Julcani, Recuperada, Antapite and Ishihuinca; as well as indirectly the mines of Shila-Paula, La Zanja and Colquijirca. Through its subsidiaries, the Company is also involved in the generation and distribution of electric power, as well as in the provision of engineering and chemical processing services. The Company owns such subsidiaries as Compania Minera Condesa SA, Minera La Zanja SRL, Inversiones Colquijirca SA, Consorcio Energetico de Huancavelica SA, Buenaventura Ingenieros SA, CEDIMIN SAC and Minera Julcani Sa de CV, among others.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA (ADR). It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable. I am removing the stock from my Watch List.
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