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ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation 0.8474%
MNST Monster Beverage Corporation 0.588%
SUI Sun Communities Inc 0.433%
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. 0.2588%
MIDD Middleby Corp 0.2451%
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc 0.1048%
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.0754%
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc 0.0127%
LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Inc -0.02%
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings -0.0639%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc -0.2415%
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. -0.3532%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. -0.3892%
CBPO China Biologic Products Inc -0.4046%
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. -0.4241%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. -0.5369%
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. -0.5571%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. -0.583%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. -0.5935%
MET Metlife Inc -0.6094%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation -0.6573%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. -0.6748%
COF Capital One Financial Corp. -0.7178%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc -0.7411%
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. -0.8034%
FB Facebook Inc -0.8206%
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. -0.8653%
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. -1.0346%
AAPL Apple Inc. -1.0814%
TRN Trinity Industries Inc -1.1088%
MCK McKesson Corporation -1.1285%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. -1.1601%
HSKA Heska Corp -1.2557%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. -1.2812%
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PCLN Priceline Group Inc -1.4937%
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. -1.5177%
THRM Gentherm Inc -1.5504%
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp -1.6063%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc -1.647%
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REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc -1.792%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. -1.8942%
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Company name Middleby Corp
Stock ticker MIDD
Live stock price [stckqut]MIDD[/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) $186.5
Target stock price (averages with growth) $160.45
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $76.4
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $145.54

 

The following company description is from Google Finance: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=midd

The Middleby Corporation is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of commercial foodservice, food processing equipment and residential kitchen equipment. The Company operates in three segments: the Commercial Foodservice Equipment Group, the Food Processing Equipment Group and the Residential Kitchen Equipment Group. It is also engaged in the design, manufacture, marketing, distribution and service of a range of foodservice equipment used in commercial restaurants and institutional kitchens; food preparation, cooking, baking, chilling and packaging equipment for food processing operations, and kitchen equipment, including ranges, ovens, refrigerators, ventilation and dishwashers used in the residential market. It manufactured and assembled the equipment at 28 facilities in the United States, and 23 international manufacturing facilities as of December 31, 2016. Its brands include Anets, Beech, Blodgett, Blodgett Combi, Stewart Systems, Mercury, Rangemaster, Rayburn and Redfyre.

 

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

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 Middleby Corp calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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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: $134.95
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $5.32
  • P/E: 25
  • Future EPS Calc: $9.37
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $234.39
  • Target stock price: $145.53

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ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $187.4100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation $253.4800 Strong Buy or Hold
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $222.1900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $119.5900 Strong Buy or Hold
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $51.1200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AMZN Amazon $1169.4700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. $176.0000 Strong Buy or Hold
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd $172.4300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings $156.3500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CBPO China Biologic Products Inc $78.7700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
COF Capital One Financial Corp. $99.5800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. $51.8600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. $152.6000 Strong Buy or Hold
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $188.9600 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp $112.7100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. $87.4500 Strong Buy or Hold
FB Facebook Inc $176.4600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GOOGL Alphabet Inc $1053.4000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $16.7500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc $78.7300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. $6.0700 Strong Buy or Hold
HOG Harley-Davidson Inc $50.8800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HSKA Heska Corp $80.2100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HZO MarineMax Inc $18.9000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. $156.3800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Inc $50.0800 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $78.5900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MCK McKesson Corporation $155.9500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. $40.1000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MET Metlife Inc $50.5600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MIDD Middleby Corp $134.9500 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
MNST Monster Beverage Corporation $63.2900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. $56.2700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $191.9600 Strong Buy or Hold
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $193.5000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
PCLN Priceline Group Inc $1737.7400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc $375.9600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc $191.1000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $57.4300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. $228.5700 Strong Buy or Hold
SUI Sun Communities Inc $92.7800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $94.9500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
THRM Gentherm Inc $31.7500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. $189.8800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TRN Trinity Industries Inc $37.4600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
UA Under Armour Inc $13.3200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $223.6600 Very Concerned, may need to wait

Symbol Stock Price change today
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation 0.8474%
MNST Monster Beverage Corporation 0.588%
SUI Sun Communities Inc 0.433%
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. 0.2588%
MIDD Middleby Corp 0.2451%
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc 0.1048%
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.0754%
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc 0.0127%
LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Inc -0.02%
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings -0.0639%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc -0.2415%
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. -0.3532%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. -0.3892%
CBPO China Biologic Products Inc -0.4046%
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. -0.4241%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. -0.5369%
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. -0.5571%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. -0.583%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. -0.5935%
MET Metlife Inc -0.6094%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation -0.6573%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. -0.6748%
COF Capital One Financial Corp. -0.7178%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc -0.7411%
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. -0.8034%
FB Facebook Inc -0.8206%
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. -0.8653%
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. -1.0346%
AAPL Apple Inc. -1.0814%
TRN Trinity Industries Inc -1.1088%
MCK McKesson Corporation -1.1285%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. -1.1601%
HSKA Heska Corp -1.2557%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. -1.2812%
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. -1.3008%
HOG Harley-Davidson Inc -1.338%
AMZN Amazon -1.4021%
PCLN Priceline Group Inc -1.4937%
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. -1.5177%
THRM Gentherm Inc -1.5504%
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp -1.6063%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc -1.647%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. -1.6479%
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc -1.792%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. -1.8942%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation -1.9757%
HZO MarineMax Inc -2.5773%
UA Under Armour Inc -5.7992%