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| Company name | Westlake Chemical Corporation |
| Stock ticker | WLK |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]WLK[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Fair |
| EPS growth | Poor |
| P/E growth | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $83.06 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $77.3 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $38.68 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $70.2 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=wlk
Westlake Chemical Corporation, is a vertically integrated manufacturer and marketer of basic chemicals, vinyls, polymers and fabricated building products. The Company’s products include some of the widely used chemicals in the world, which are fundamental to many diverse consumer and industrial markets, including flexible and rigid packaging, automotive products, coatings, residential and commercial construction as well as other durable and non-durable goods. In July 2014, the Company acquired Vinnolit Holdings GmbH and its subsidiary companies from Advent International. In July 2014, Westlake Chemical Corp acquired Vinnolit Holdings GmbH, an Ismaning-based manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Westlake Chemical Corporation as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.
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.
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There is a common phrase in selling that is “ABC” which means “Always be closing.”
In the case of investing phrase should be:
ABI or Always Be Investing
There are times that the market will force you to want to keep your money in cash. I recognize the strategy as a valuable strategy especially when the entire market is dropping such as we had in 2008. In 2008, every stock saw a dramatic drop in its price, and some stocks dropped 20 to 40%. This is a time when it’s almost impossible to ride a stock up as a momentum investor play. Occasionally, there will also be geopolitical scares that will cause most of the indicators of your favorite stocks to show sell. In those instances, you will exit the individual stocks, and you may find that you have a large portion of your portfolio in cash.
Aside from these unusual days, most times and investors should keep the money in play in the market in some manner. Using the tools that I teach in my book, The Confident Investor. You can almost always find a stock that is increasing in value and is ready for you to invest. I think there have only been one or two times in the past six years that I haven’t had at least one or two stocks in my investment portfolio.
With the strategy of always be investing, it is critical to choose the correct stock. To do this, we need to focus our efforts on great companies that have a history of performing well. This performance needs to be as a company and also as a stock. You can find a list of such companies on my Watch List. However, you shouldn’t trust just my list. Instead, you should read my book The Confident Investor, so that you can make your own determinations on the stocks that you want to focus on.
In addition to helping you find the best companies to invest in, my book The Confident Investor will help you identify when those stocks are starting to grow. It will also indicate when you should get out of those stocks and invest your money elsewhere. A confident momentum investor has to be diligent about watching the direction of the portfolio and every stock in the portfolio to make sure it is appreciating at the rate need.
You can purchase my book wherever books are sold such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books A Million. It is available in e-book formats for Nook, Kindle, and iPad.
This information was calculated on Nov 18, 2014 and is based on the closing value of the most recent trading day which may not be today.
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| Company name | SanDisk Corporation |
| Stock ticker | SNDK |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]SNDK[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Good |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Fair |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $132.44 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $140.74 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $67.1 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $131.23 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=sndk
SanDisk Corporation designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using its flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. The Company’s solutions include removable cards, embedded products, universal serial bus (USB), drives, digital media players, wafers and components. Its removable cards are used in a range of consumer electronics devices, such as mobile phones, digital cameras, gaming devices and laptop computers. Its embedded flash products are used in mobile phones, tablets, ultrabooks, eReaders, global positioning system (GPS), devices, gaming systems, imaging devices and computing platforms. For computing platforms, it provides storage solutions known as solid-state drives (SSDs) that can be used in lieu of hard disk drives. In July 2014, the Company acquired Fusion-io, developer of flash-based PCIe hardware and software solutions that enhance application performance in enterprise and hyperscale datacenters.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in SanDisk Corporation.
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.
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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