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Company name Altria Group Inc
Stock ticker MO
Live stock price [stckqut]MO[/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) $27.65
Target stock price (averages with growth) $32.29
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $30.3
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $35.84

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

Altria Group, Inc. is a holding company. At December 31, 2012, Altria Group, Inc.’s direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries included Philip Morris USA Inc. (PM USA), which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and certain smokeless products in the United States; John Middleton Co. (Middleton), which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of machine-made cigars and pipe tobacco, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of PM USA; and UST LLC (UST), which through its direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries, including U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC (USSTC) and Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Ltd. (Ste. Michelle), is engaged in the manufacture and sale of smokeless products and wine. Philip Morris Capital Corporation (PMCC), another wholly owned subsidiary of Altria Group, Inc., maintains a portfolio of leveraged and direct finance leases. In addition, Altria Group, Inc. held approximately 26.9% of the economic and voting interest of SABMiller plc (SABMiller).

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Altria Group 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: $36.98

Growth: 0.1

Current EPS (TTM): $2.56

P/E: 14

Future EPS Calc: $4.12

Future Stock Price Calc: $57.72

Target stock price: $35.84

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Company name Six Flags Entertainment Corp
Stock ticker SIX
Live stock price [stckqut]SIX[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $57.29
Target stock price (averages with growth) $12.2
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $3.7
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $41.67

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

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (Six Flags), incorporated on December 09, 1997, owns and operates regional theme, water and zoological parks. As of the December 31, 2011, of the 18 parks the Company owned or operated, 16 are located in the United States, one is located in Mexico City, Mexico and one is located in Montreal, Canada. Its diversified portfolio of North American theme parks serves an aggregate population of approximately 100 million people and 160 million people within a radius of 50 miles and 100 miles, respectively, with some of the highest per capita gross domestic product in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company’s parks offered approximately 800 rides, including over 120 roller coasters, making the Company the provider of thrill rides in the industry.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Six Flags Entertainment Corp as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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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: $37.02

Growth: 0.12

Current EPS (TTM): $2.38

P/E: 16

Future EPS Calc: $4.19

Future Stock Price Calc: $67.1

Target stock price: $41.67

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $95.08
Target stock price (averages with growth) $114.46
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $81.59
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $79.58

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

VeriSign, Inc. (VeriSign) is a provider of Internet infrastructure services. The Company provides network confidence and availability for mission-critical Internet services, such as domain name registry services and infrastructure assurance services. Its service capabilities enable real-time name resolution for a number of global top level domains (TLDs), enable domain name registration through registrars, and provide security intelligence and cloud-based network availability services to enterprise customers. It has one reportable segment is Naming Services, which consists of Registry Services and Network Intelligence and Availability (NIA) Services. It has operations inside as well as outside the United States (U.S.). Registry Services operates the authoritative directory of all .com, .net, .cc, .tv, and .name domain names and the back-end systems for all .gov, .jobs and .edu domain names.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Verisign, Inc. as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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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: $61.45

Growth: 0.16

Current EPS (TTM): $2.26

P/E: 27

Future EPS Calc: $4.74

Future Stock Price Calc: $128.16

Target stock price: $79.57

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Company name GFI Group Inc.
Stock ticker GFIG
Live stock price [stckqut]GFIG[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

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

GFI Group Inc. (GFI) is a provider of wholesale brokerage services, clearing services and electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets. The Company provides brokerage and trade execution services, clearing services, market data and trading platform and other software products to institutional customers in markets for a range of fixed income, financial, equity and commodity instruments. The Company provides execution services for its institutional wholesale customers by either matching their trading needs with counterparties having reciprocal interests or directing their orders to an exchange or other trading venue. It offers its customers a hybrid brokerage approach, combining a range of telephonic and electronic trade execution services. The Company operates in four segments: Americas Brokerage; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Brokerage; Asia Brokerage, and Clearing and Backed Trading.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in GFI Group Inc. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable.
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Company name 3D Systems Corporation
Stock ticker DDD
Live stock price [stckqut]DDD[/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) $139.77
Target stock price (averages with growth) $175.19
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $104.27
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $142.14

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

3D Systems Corporation (3D Systems) is a holding company that operates through subsidiaries in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. It is a provider of three-dimensional (3D) content-to-print solutions including 3D printers, print materials and on-demand custom parts services for professionals and consumers. It also provides creative content development and design productivity tools. Its principal print engines include stereolithography (SLA), printers, selective laser sintering (SLS), printers, multi-jet modeling (MJM), printers, film transfer imaging (FTI) printers, selective laser melting (SLM) printers, and plastic jet printers (PJP). In January 2014, the Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of Xerox’s solid ink engineering and development teams and development labs and relevant patent portfolio. In January 2014, the Company acquired Gentle Giant Studios.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in 3D Systems Corporation.

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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: $90.68

Growth: 0.2

Current EPS (TTM): $0.46

P/E: 200

Future EPS Calc: $1.14

Future Stock Price Calc: $228.92

Target stock price: $142.14

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