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Company name Tractor Supply Company
Stock ticker TSCO
Live stock price [stckqut]TSCO[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $143.95
Target stock price (averages with growth) $184.04
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $123.61
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $145.75

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

Tractor Supply Company is an operator of retail farm and ranch stores in the United States. The Company operates retail stores under the names Tractor Supply Company and Del’s Farm Supply and operate a Website under the name TractorSupply.com. The Company’s stores are located in towns outlying metropolitan markets and in rural communities, and offer a selection of merchandise, which include equine, pet and small animal products, including items necessary for their health, care, growth and containment; hardware, truck, towing and tool products; seasonal products, including lawn and garden items, power equipment, gifts and toys; maintenance products for agricultural and rural use, and work/recreational clothing and footwear. The Company operates at farm and ranch retail sales segment, both at its retail locations and online.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.

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Company name RadioShack Corporation
Stock ticker RSH
Live stock price [stckqut]RSH[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

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

Manufactures, sells, and services electronic equipment on an international basis. Products range from personal computers and cellular phones to hi-fi speakers and batteries. The distribution is handled in Radio Shack stores as well as Videoconcepts and McDuff’s.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable.

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This is a message to my StockTwits followers that is prompted by StockTwits’ change in policy that went into effect today, 3/1/2013.

To date, I have been communicating to my StockTwits followers primarily via Twitter. If I put a dollar ($) symbol in front of the stock symbol on Twitter, StockTwits would pick up that change and repost the tweet on StockTwits. StockTwits is a great service that is focused on stock information in its community. As of today, this linking between the Twitter and StockTwits seems to be turned off.

I have about 250 followers on StockTwits and over 15,000 followers on Twitter. I will try to cross-pollinate my comments across the two services but my first priority has to be Twitter. If you are following me on StockTwits and NOT following me on Twitter, you may wish to follow me on Twitter. I value my followers on StockTwits greatly and I will do my best to cross-pollinate posts but I am sure that some conversations will be lost.

My Twitter page is https://twitter.com/ConfidentInvest.

Here is the announcement that I received today from StockTwits:

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This email contains an important product announcement that impacts your StockTwits account.

Effective today, March 1, you will no longer be able to post to your StockTwits account via Twitter by including a $TICKER or $$ in your message. All messages you want to share on StockTwits need to be posted directly to StockTwits at StockTwits.com, using our browser extensions or API partners.

We continue to work with Twitter in other ways, you can still automatically send messages you share on StockTwits to your linked Twitter account (or your linked Facebook and LinkedIn accounts).

Much has been written over the last several months about how Twitter has changed their developer rules and, like many other developers, these new rules have forced us to make changes in order to continue to deliver a great experience to you and all of our users.

We know this changes the way some of our members use our service – since we announced this change earlier this year we have helped many members set up tools like our Chrome or Firefox Browser Extensions or our HootSuite plug in to minimize any impact on the way they work, while ensuring their best stock and market ideas continue to be seen on StockTwits.

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Company name Papa John’s Int’l, Inc.
Stock ticker PZZA
Live stock price [stckqut]PZZA[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $63.79
Target stock price (averages with growth) $72.84
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $53.25
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $62.92

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

Papa John’s International, Inc. (Papa John’s) operates and franchises pizza delivery and carryout, and in certain international markets, dine-in and restaurant-based delivery restaurants under the trademark Papa John’s. The Company operates in six segments: domestic Company-owned restaurants, domestic commissaries (quality control centers), North America franchising, international operations, variable interest entities (VIEs) and other business units. As of December 25, 2011, the Company operated 3,883 Papa John’s restaurants, including 628 Company-owned and 3,255 franchised restaurants operating in 50 states in Columbia and Puerto Rico and in 33 countries. The Company owns 70% of an entity operating 52 Papa John’s restaurants located in Virginia and Maryland. The Company owns 51% of an entity operating 76 Papa John’s restaurants located in Texas. In April 2012, it acquired 56 franchised Papa John’s restaurants in the Denver and Minneapolis markets.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock 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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If you are trying to build your net worth by investing, then you need to worry about how much you spend on a daily basis. To quote Benjamin Franklin, “A penny saved is a penny earned” (yes, I know that it is not very likely that Mr. Franklin coined that phrase). By not over-spending you will have more money to put into your investments which allow your net worth to increase dramatically.

An article by Free WordPress Lessons caught my eye and you may want to jump over and take a look. They have many ideas to save money and they are in the following categories:

  1. Getting cash back on online purchases
  2. Daily deal sites
  3. Coupon sites
  4. Getting rid of cable TV
  5. Deal aggregation sites
  6. Price comparison sites
  7. Saving money on travel
  8. Auction & classified ad sites
  9. Budgeting / saving money / coupon blogs

Under each category are many links and descriptions. I can almost guarantee that you will find a site that you didn’t know about (I found several). It is definitely worth your time to jump over and read the article if you are concerned about getting the most value out of your dollar and increasing your savings.