Company name Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.
Stock ticker CBI
Live stock price [stckqut]CBI[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $76.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $66.02
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $29.62
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $62.19

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

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. (CB&I) is an energy infrastructure focused company and a provider of government services. The Company operates in four segments: Engineering, Construction and Maintenance; Fabrication Services; Technology, and Government Solutions. The Engineering, Construction and Maintenance segment offers engineering, procurement, and construction for energy infrastructure facilities, as well as integrated maintenance services. The Fabrication Services segment provides fabrication of piping systems, process and nuclear modules, and fabrication and erection of storage tanks and pressure vessels. The Technology segment offers licensed process technologies, catalysts, specialized equipment, and engineered products. The Government Solutions segment undertakes programs and projects, including design-build infrastructure projects for federal, state, and local governments, as well as offers environmental services for government and private sector customers.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. calculated?

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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: $49.72
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.98
  • P/E: 10
  • Future EPS Calc: $10.01
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $100.16
  • Target stock price: $62.19

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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.

I am currently going through my Watch List to ensure that each company still deserves to be on the list. Because of the number of companies on my list, I am going to try to knock out 2 per weekday.

Company name Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.
Stock ticker CBI
Live stock price [stckqut]CBI[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $806.13
Target stock price (averages with growth) $496.26
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $214.73
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $129.48

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

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. is an energy infrastructure focused company and provider of government services. The Company operates in four segments: Engineering, Construction and Maintenance, which offers engineering, procurement, and construction for energy infrastructure facilities; Fabrication Services, which provides fabrication of piping systems, process and nuclear modules, fabrication and erection of steel plate storage tanks and pressure vessels for oil and gas and power generation industries; Technology, which offers licensed process technologies, specialized equipment, and engineered products for use in petrochemical facilities, oil refineries, and gas processing plants and provides process planning and project development services, and Government Solutions, which undertakes programs and projects, including design-build infrastructure projects for federal, state and local governments, as well as offers environmental services for government and private sector customers.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor.

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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: $83.55

Growth: 0.2

Current EPS (TTM): $4.19

P/E: 20

Future EPS Calc: $10.42

Future Stock Price Calc: $208.52

Target stock price: $129.47

I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $5.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $6.43
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $6.74
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $3.51

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

CBIZ, Inc. (CBIZ) provides professional business services, products and solutions. These services are provided to businesses of various sizes, as well as individuals, governmental entities and not-for-profit enterprises throughout the United States and parts of Canada. CBIZ delivers its services through four practice groups: Financial Services, Employee Services, and National Practices. Its Financial Services group includes accounting, tax, financial advisory, valuation, litigation support, internal audit, family office services, fraud detection and real estate advisory. Its Employee Services group provides group health, property and casualty, retirement planning, payroll services, life insurance, human capital management, compensation consulting, recruiting and actuarial services. In September 2013, CBIZ, Inc completed the sale of its Medical Management Professionals (MMP) business to Zotec Partners, LLC.

 

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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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: $7.89

Growth: 0.04

Current EPS (TTM): $0.58

P/E: 8

Future EPS Calc: $0.7

Future Stock Price Calc: $5.64

Target stock price: $3.5

I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]