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Company name Dril-Quip, Inc.
Stock ticker DRQ
Live stock price [stckqut]DRQ[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Fair
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $52.86
Target stock price (averages with growth) $70.38
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $61.55
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $63.5

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

Dril-Quip, Inc. (Dril-Quip) designs, manufactures, sells and services offshore drilling and production equipment for use in deepwater, harsh environment and severe service applications. The Company’s principal products consist of subsea and surface wellheads, subsea and surface production trees, subsea control systems and manifolds, mudline hanger systems, specialty connectors and associated pipe, drilling and production riser systems, liner hangers, wellhead connectors and diverters. Dril-Quip’s products are used by integrated, independent and foreign national oil and gas companies in offshore areas worldwide. The Company’s operations are organized into three geographic segments: Western Hemisphere (including North and South America), Eastern Hemisphere (including Europe and Africa) and Asia-Pacific (including the Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia, Australia, India and the Middle East; headquartered in Singapore).

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 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.

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Company name Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc.
Stock ticker KLIC
Live stock price [stckqut]KLIC[/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) $3.33
Target stock price (averages with growth) $4.64
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $5.14
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $9.34

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

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (K&S) designs, manufactures and sells capital equipment and expendable tools used to assemble semiconductor devices, including integrated circuits (IC), high and low powered discrete devices, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and power modules. The Company also services, maintains, repairs and upgrades its equipment. Its customers primarily consist of semiconductor device manufacturers, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers (OSAT), other electronics manufacturers and automotive electronics suppliers. K&S operates in two main business segments: Equipment and Expendable Tools. K&S manufactures and sells a line of ball bonders, heavy wire wedge bonders, stud bumpers, and die bonders. The Company manufactures and sells a variety of expendable tools for a range of semiconductor packaging applications.

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 Liberty Property Trust
Stock ticker LRY
Live stock price [stckqut]LRY[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $55.97
Target stock price (averages with growth) $71.41
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $69.89
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $44.59

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

Liberty Property Trust (the Trust) is a self-administered and self-managed Maryland real estate investment trust (REIT). The Trust’s assets are owned directly or indirectly, and all of its operations are conducted directly or indirectly, by its subsidiary, Liberty Property Limited Partnership (the Operating Partnership). It provides leasing, property management, development, acquisition, and other tenant-related services for a portfolio of industrial and office properties, which are located within the Mid-Atlantic, Southeastern, Midwestern and Southwestern United States and the United Kingdom. During the year ended December 31, 2011, it acquired 21 properties comprising 4.2 million square feet. During 2011, it sold 62 operating properties containing an aggregate of 4.2 million square feet and 61 acres of land. On April 3, 2012, it sold 49 properties totaling 2.5 million square feet of space in Wisconsin, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey.

Confident Investor comments: This is one of the few REITs that I have found that I like. At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.

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Company name Powerwave Technologies, Inc.
Stock ticker PWAV
Live stock price [stckqut]PWAV[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

The following company description is from Morningstar: http://quote.morningstar.com/stock/s.aspx?t=pwav

Powerwave designs and manufactures wireless telecom equipment, such as antennas, boosters, radio-frequency power amplifiers, and repeaters, which improve the coverage area and data transmission capacity of networks. It sells its products to wireless equipment manufacturers, such as Samsung, and wireless operators, such as Verizon Wireless. In 2007, 43% of sales were to Europe, 28% to the Americas, and 26% to Asia.

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.