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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $89.42
Target stock price (averages with growth) $43.28
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $81.33
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $88.94

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/swks

Skyworks Solutions Inc., incorporated on June 10, 2002, designs, develops, manufactures and markets semiconductor products, including intellectual property. The Company’s analog semiconductors connect people, places, and things, spanning various unimagined applications within the automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet and wearable markets. The Company’s geographical segments include the United States, Other Americas, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Other Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. The Company operates throughout the world with engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe and North America. The Company is engaged with key original equipment manufacturers (OEM), smartphone providers and baseband reference design partners. The Company’s plants are located in Mexico, Singapore, the United States, Japan, and Rest of world. The Company offers its technology from the smartphones to the factory floor to hospitals and medical providers to the automated home, connected car, and wearables. Skyworks is enabling opportunities with solutions supporting a set of wireless protocols, including cellular long-term evolution (LTE), wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, Zigbee and emerging fifth generation (5G) standards.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Skyworks Solutions Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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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: $75.55
  • Growth: 0.13
  • Current EPS (TTM): $5.98
  • P/E: 13
  • Future EPS Calc: $11.01
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $143.23
  • Target stock price: $88.93

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $76.68
Target stock price (averages with growth) $61.55
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $61.55
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $64.09

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/mtz

MasTec, Inc., incorporated on April 8, 1998, is an infrastructure construction company. The Company operates primarily across North America through a range of industries. The Company operates through five segments: Communications, Oil and Gas, Electrical Transmission, Power Generation and Industrial, and Other. Its primary activities include the engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of communications, energy and utility infrastructure, such as wireless, wireline/fiber, satellite communications and customer fulfillment activities; petroleum and natural gas pipeline infrastructure; electrical utility transmission and distribution; conventional and renewable power generation, and industrial infrastructure. The Company offered its services primarily under the MasTec service mark and had operations across 510 locations as of December 31, 2016. It provides services under master service and other service agreements, which are generally multi-year agreements. It offers its service offerings in markets, including wireless services; wireline/fiber; customer fulfillment; natural gas and petroleum pipeline infrastructure; power generation, including renewables; and electrical transmission.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in MasTec, Inc. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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How was this analysis of MasTec, 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: $49.65
  • Growth: 0.16
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.51
  • P/E: 14
  • Future EPS Calc: $7.37
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $103.21
  • Target stock price: $64.08

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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 Fair
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $18.41
Target stock price (averages with growth) $13.51
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $13.51
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $19.24

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/mei

Methode Electronics, Inc. (Methode), incorporated on April 27, 1966, 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 Company has manufacturing, design and testing facilities in China, Egypt, Germany, India, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Mexico, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The Company’s components are found in end markets of the aerospace, appliance, automotive, battery storage, construction, consumer and industrial equipment, communications (including information processing and storage, medical device, networking equipment, wireless and terrestrial voice/data systems), rail and other transportation industries.

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. I am going to take Methode Electronics off of my Watch List.

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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: $25.57
  • Growth: 0.03
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.97
  • P/E: 9
  • Future EPS Calc: $3.44
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $30.98
  • Target stock price: $19.24

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Company name Broadcom Inc
Stock ticker AVGO
Live stock price [stckqut]AVGO[/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) $393.22
Target stock price (averages with growth) $356.2
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $356.2
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $362.52

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/avgo

Broadcom Inc., formerly Broadcom Limited, incorporated on March 3, 2015, is a designer, developer and global supplier of a range of semiconductor devices with a focus on digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based devices and analog III-V based products. The Company operates through four segments: Wired Infrastructure, Wireless Communications, Enterprise Storage and Industrial & Other. It offers a range of products that are used in end-products, such as enterprise and data center networking, home connectivity, set-top boxes (STBs), broadband access, telecommunication equipment, smartphones, data center servers and storage systems, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and electronic displays. Its product portfolio ranges from discrete devices to complex sub-systems that include multiple device types, and also includes firmware for interfacing between analog and digital systems. Its products include mechanical hardware that interfaces with optoelectronic or capacitive sensors.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Broadcom Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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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: $254.48
  • Growth: 0.18
  • Current EPS (TTM): $11.6
  • P/E: 22
  • Future EPS Calc: $26.53
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $583.83
  • Target stock price: $362.51

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Company name MasTec, Inc.
Stock ticker MTZ
Live stock price [stckqut]MTZ[/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) $78.53
Target stock price (averages with growth) $105.64
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $71.76
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $79.72

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/mtz

MasTec, Inc., incorporated on April 8, 1998, is an infrastructure construction company. The Company operates primarily across North America through a range of industries. The Company operates through five segments: Communications, Oil and Gas, Electrical Transmission, Power Generation and Industrial, and Other. Its primary activities include the engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of communications, energy and utility infrastructure, such as wireless, wireline/fiber, satellite communications and customer fulfillment activities; petroleum and natural gas pipeline infrastructure; electrical utility transmission and distribution; conventional and renewable power generation, and industrial infrastructure. The Company offered its services primarily under the MasTec service mark and had operations across 510 locations as of December 31, 2016. It provides services under master service and other service agreements, which are generally multi-year agreements. It offers its service offerings in markets, including wireless services; wireline/fiber; customer fulfillment; natural gas and petroleum pipeline infrastructure; power generation, including renewables; and electrical transmission.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in MasTec, Inc. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. I will be adding MasTec to my Watch List.

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How was this analysis of MasTec, 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: $50.85
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.58
  • P/E: 20
  • Future EPS Calc: $6.41
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $128.39
  • Target stock price: $79.72

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