Methode Electronics Inc. ($MEI) Cautious Buy or Hold to $41 Confident Investor Rating: Fair
| Company name | Methode Electronics Inc. |
| Stock ticker | MEI |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]MEI[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Poor |
| Sales growth | Poor |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $40.91 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $41.75 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $22.7 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $42.72 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=mei
Methode Electronics, Inc. (Methode) is a manufacturer of component and subsystem devices. The Company designs, manufactures and markets devices employing electrical, radio remote control, electronic, wireless and sensing technologies. The Company operates through segments, including Automotive, Interface, Power Products and Other. The Automotive segment supplies electronic and electro-mechanical devices and related products to automobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The Interface segment provides a range of copper and fiber-optic interface and interface solutions. The Power Products segment manufactures braided flexible cables, current-carrying laminated bus devices, custom power-product assemblies, such as PowerRail solution, high-current low voltage flexible power cabling systems and powder coated bus bars. The Other segment includes medical devices, inverters and battery systems, and insulated gate bipolar transistor solutions.
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Methode Electronics Inc. as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. Because of these concerns, I am removing Methode Electronics from my Watch List.
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How was this analysis of Methode Electronics Inc. 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: $40.1
- Growth: 0.12
- Current EPS (TTM): $2.44
- P/E: 16
- Future EPS Calc: $4.3
- Future Stock Price Calc: $68.8
- Target stock price: $42.72
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