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Company name Cogent Communications Group, Inc.
Stock ticker CCOI
Live stock price [stckqut]CCOI[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ccoi
Cogent Communications Group, Inc. is a facilities-based provider of Internet access and Internet Protocol (IP), communications services. The Company’s network is specifically designed and optimized to transmit data using IP. The Company delivers its services primarily to small and medium-sized businesses, communications service providers and other bandwidth-intensive organizations in North America and Europe. The Company offers on-net services in over 175 metropolitan markets. The Company serves over 1,740 on-net buildings of which more than 1,470 are located in North America with the remainder located in Europe and one located in Japan Its on-net service in North America is its Fast Ethernet service, which provides Internet access at 100 megabits per second. It also offers Internet access services at higher speeds of up to ten Gigabits per second. These services are generally used by customers that have businesses, such as Web hosting, that are Internet-based.
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 Alliance Resource Partners, L.P.
Stock ticker ARLP
Live stock price [stckqut]ARLP[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $59.46
Target stock price (averages with growth) $55.91
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $47.61
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $53.56

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=arlp
Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (ARLP Partnership) is a diversified producer and marketer of coal primarily to major United States utilities and industrial users. ARLP Partnership operates 10 underground mining complexes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia, including the new Tunnel Ridge mine in West Virginia. The Company is constructing a new mine in southern Indiana, operate a coal loading terminal on the Ohio River at Mt. Vernon, Indiana and are purchasing and funding development of reserves, constructing surface facilities and making equity investments in White Oak’s new mining complex in southern Illinois. It also constructing a new mine in southern Indiana, operate a coal loading terminal on the Ohio River at Mt. Vernon, Indiana. Its mining activities are conducted in three geographic regions: Illinois Basin, Central Appalachian and Northern Appalachian regions.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock 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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Company name Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
Stock ticker AAP
Live stock price [stckqut]AAP[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $74.48
Target stock price (averages with growth) $89.57
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $75.82
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $74.81

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

Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (Advance) is a specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, accessories, batteries and maintenance items primarily operating within the United States. The Company operates in two segments: Advance Auto Parts (AAP), and Autopart International (AI). Its stores carry an extensive product line for cars, vans, sport utility vehicles and light trucks. The Company serves both do-it-yourself (DIY), and do-it-for-me (Commercial), customers. Its Commercial customers consist primarily of delivery customers for whom the Company delivers product from its store locations to it Commercial customers’ places of business, including independent garages, service stations and auto dealers. In December 2012, the Company acquired B.W.P. Distributors, 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.

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $43.57
Target stock price (averages with growth) $44.53
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $34.43
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $38.83

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=rai
Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) is a holding company. The Company’s operating subsidiaries include cigarette manufacturer in the United States, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; the smokeless tobacco products manufacturer in the United States, American Snuff Company, LLC (American Snuff Co); the manufacturer of cigarette brand, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. (SFNTC), and Niconovum AB. RAI operates in three segments: RJR Tobacco, American Snuff and Santa Fe. The RJR Tobacco segment consists of the primary operations of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The American Snuff segment consists of the primary operations of American Snuff Co. Santa Fe manufactures and markets cigarettes and other tobacco products under the NATURAL AMERICAN SPIRIT brand. On February 28, 2011, RAI completed the sale of Lane Limited.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. This is the type of company that some people would prefer to not invest in due to its reliance on revenue from tobacco products. I do not think you should invest in a company if you are morally opposed to its products.

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Company name Skyworks Solutions Inc
Stock ticker SWKS
Live stock price [stckqut]SWKS[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $28.29
Target stock price (averages with growth) $37.3
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $28.51
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $27.01

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=swks
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Skyworks) offers analog and mixed signal semiconductors. Skyworks offers custom linear products supporting automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, industrial, medical, military and cellular handset applications. The Company’s portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, circulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure radio frequency (RF) subsystems, isolators, mixers/demodulators, optocouplers, optoisolators, phase shifters, phase locked loops (PLLs)/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches and technical ceramics. Its portfolio includes customized power amplifiers and front-end solutions. On June 10, 2011, the Company completed the acquisition of SiGe Semiconductor, Inc. (SiGe), a semiconductor provider. On April 27, 2011, the Company acquired 100% ownership of a private company engaged in the design and manufacturing of optical components.

 

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

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