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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $15.52
Target stock price (averages with growth) $13.17
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $6.37
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $21.6

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

Gray Television, Inc. is a television broadcast company. The Company owns and operates television stations and digital assets in markets across the United States. The Company owns and/or operates television stations in approximately 50 television markets broadcasting over 180 separate programming streams, including approximately 40 affiliates of the CBS Network (CBS), over 30 affiliates of the NBC Network (NBC), approximately 20 affiliates of the ABC Network (ABC) and over 10 affiliates of the FOX Network (FOX). Along with primary broadcast channels, the Company can also broadcast secondary digital channels within a market. Its secondary digital channels are generally affiliated with networks different from those affiliated with its primary broadcast channels. It also broadcasts local news/weather channels in certain of its existing markets. Its television stations include WVLT and WBXX in Knoxville, Tennessee; WOWT in Omaha, Nebraska, and WDBJ in Roanoke-Lynchburg, Virginia.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Gray Television, 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: $10.04
  • Growth: 0.13
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.59
  • P/E: 32
  • Future EPS Calc: $1.08
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $34.78
  • Target stock price: $21.59

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Company name Balchem Corporation
Stock ticker BCPC
Live stock price [stckqut]BCPC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $50.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $56.58
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $32.94
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $53.59

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

Balchem Corporation (Balchem) is engaged in the development, manufacture, distribution and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for the food, nutritional, feed, pharmaceutical and medical sterilization industries. The Company operates in four segments: SensoryEffects, Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH), Specialty Products and Industrial Products. Its SensoryEffects segment provides creamer systems, dairy replacers, powdered fats, nutritional beverage bases, beverages, juice and dairy bases, chocolate systems, ice cream bases and variegates, grain-based snacks and cereal-based ingredients. ANH segment provides basic choline chloride, and microencapsulation and chelation technologies-based nutritional products. Specialty Products segment provides ethylene oxide and propylene oxide products. Its Industrial Products segment provides Choline Chloride and methylamines. The Company sells its products through its own sales force, independent distributors and sales agents.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Balchem Corporation as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I will be removing Balchem from my Watch List.

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How was this analysis of Balchem Corporation 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: $58.82
  • Growth: 0.08
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.78
  • P/E: 33
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.61
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $86.3
  • Target stock price: $53.59

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Company name ABIOMED, Inc.
Stock ticker ABMD
Live stock price [stckqut]ABMD[/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) $153.31
Target stock price (averages with growth) $169.57
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $77.13
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $151.03

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

Abiomed, Inc. is a provider of temporary percutaneous mechanical circulatory support devices. The Company offers care to heart failure patients. The Company’s products include Impella 2.5, a percutaneous micro heart pump with an integrated motor and sensors; Impella CP, which is primarily used by either interventional cardiologists to support patients in the catheter lab or by surgeons in the heart surgery suite; Impella 5.0 and Impella LD, a percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors for use primarily in the heart surgery suite; Impella RP, a percutaneous catheter-based axial flow pump that is designed to allow greater than four liters of flow per minute; AB5000, a circulatory support system for the temporary support of acute heart failure patients in profound shock, and Symphony, a minimally invasive implantable cardiac assist device.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in ABIOMED, 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: $99.23
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.85
  • P/E: 115
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.11
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $243.23
  • Target stock price: $151.02

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Company name Equinix Inc
Stock ticker EQIX
Live stock price [stckqut]EQIX[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

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

Equinix, Inc., is a networking company. The Company engages in connecting businesses to their customers and partners inside networked data centers. Platform Equinix combines a footprint of International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers, interconnection opportunities, and ecosystems. The Company provides data center offerings comprised of colocation, interconnection solutions and managed IT infrastructure services. Colocation and Related Offerings, IBX data centers provide customers with environments necessary for optimum Internet commerce interconnection as well as offer Cabinets for colocating networking, server and storage equipment, Power for AC and DC power circuits with amperages and phases, and IBXflex to deploy mission-critical operations personnel and equipment. Interconnection Solutions, enable scalable, interconnection and traffic exchange between customers. Managed IT Infrastructure Services, provide multi-network management and outsourced IT services.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Equinix Inc. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable. I am removing this company from my Watch List.
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Company name AMETEK, Inc.
Stock ticker AME
Live stock price [stckqut]AME[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $49.31
Target stock price (averages with growth) $47.45
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $26.45
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $49.81

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

AMETEK, Inc. (AMETEK) is a manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices with operations in North America, Europe, Asia and South America. The Company markets its products across the world through two groups: the Electronic Instruments Group (EIG) and the Electromechanical Group (EMG). EIG provides monitoring, testing, calibration and display devices for the process, aerospace, power and industrial markets. EMG produces engineered electrical connectors for electronic applications; precision motion control solutions; specialty metals and alloys; and electric motors, blowers and heat exchangers. The Company’s end markets include aerospace and defense, medical devices, factory automation, mass transit, petrochemical and other industrial markets.

 

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

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How was this analysis of AMETEK, 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: $51.31
  • Growth: 0.09
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.37
  • P/E: 22
  • Future EPS Calc: $3.64
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $80.22
  • Target stock price: $49.81

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