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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) $369.83
Target stock price (averages with growth) $480.02
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $326.06
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $338.86

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: $239.29
  • Growth: 0.19
  • Current EPS (TTM): $25.41
  • P/E: 9
  • Future EPS Calc: $60.63
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $545.73
  • Target stock price: $338.85

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Company name T-Mobile Us Inc
Stock ticker TMUS
Live stock price [stckqut]TMUS[/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) $92.6
Target stock price (averages with growth) $82.28
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $55.89
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $77.63

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

T-Mobile US, Inc., incorporated on March 10, 2004, is a wireless company. As of December 31, 2016, the Company provided wireless communications services, including voice, messaging and data, to over 71 million customers in the postpaid, prepaid and wholesale markets. It provides services, devices and accessories across its brands, T-Mobile and MetroPCS. It provides wireless communication services through a range of service plan options. The Company offers a device trade-in program, Just Upgrade My Phone (JUMP!), which provides customers a specified-price trade-in right to upgrade their device. It offers a range of wireless devices, including handsets, tablets and other mobile communication devices, and accessories for sale, as well as financing through equipment installment plans (EIPs) and leasing through JUMP On Demand. In addition, it sells devices to dealers and other third-party distributors for resale through third-party retail outlets and a range of third-party Websites. It also provides reinsurance for handset insurance policies and extended warranty contracts offered to its mobile communications customers.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in T-Mobile Us Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. Investors should be cautious with T-Mobile as the company is regularly in talks to acquire other companies or to be acquired. This can vastly increase the volatility of the company as well as subject management to distractions from running a successful business.

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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: $59.91
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $5.18
  • P/E: 12
  • Future EPS Calc: $10.41
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $125.02
  • Target stock price: $77.63

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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 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) $114.89
Target stock price (averages with growth) $153.87
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $117.57
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $122.09

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.

The Company’s product portfolio consists of various solutions, including amplifiers, attenuators, circulators/isolators, direct current (DC/DC) converters, demodulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, diversity receive modules, filters, front-end modules, hybrid, light emitting diode (LED) drivers, low noise amplifiers, mixers, modulators, optocouplers/optoisolators, phase locked loops, phase shifters, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches, synthesizers, technical ceramics, voltage regulators and voltage controlled oscillators/synthesizers. Its Attenuators portfolio includes circuits that allow a known source of power to be reduced by a predetermined factor (usually expressed as decibels). Its Circulators/Isolators portfolio includes ferrite-based components found on the output of high-power amplifiers used to protect receivers in wireless transmission systems. Its DC/DC Converters portfolio includes an electronic circuit, which converts a source of direct current from one voltage level to another.

 

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: $97.06
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.11
  • P/E: 16
  • Future EPS Calc: $12.28
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $196.63
  • Target stock price: $122.09

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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 Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $38.18
Target stock price (averages with growth) $52.28
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $44.01
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $42.11

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.

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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: $40.5
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.96
  • P/E: 13
  • Future EPS Calc: $5.21
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $67.81
  • Target stock price: $42.1

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Company name Heska Corp
Stock ticker HSKA
Live stock price [stckqut]HSKA[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $159.69
Target stock price (averages with growth) $235.09
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $159.69
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $157.64

 

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

Heska Corporation, incorporated on March 27, 1997, sells veterinary diagnostic and specialty products. The Company operates through two segments: Core Companion Animal Health (CCA) and Other Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals and Products (OVP). The CCA segment includes, primarily for canine and feline use, blood testing instruments and supplies, digital imaging products, software and services, local and cloud-based data services, allergy testing and immunotherapy, and single-use offerings, such as in-clinic diagnostic tests and heartworm preventive products. Its OVP segment includes private label vaccine and pharmaceutical production, primarily for cattle but also for other species, including equine, porcine, avian, feline and canine. All OVP products are sold by third parties under third-party labels. The Company focuses on supporting veterinarians in the canine and feline healthcare space.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Heska Corp 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 Heska Corp 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: $103.56
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.79
  • P/E: 57
  • Future EPS Calc: $4.45
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $253.88
  • Target stock price: $157.64

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