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Company name Priceline.com Inc
Stock ticker PCLN
Live stock price [stckqut]PCLN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $970.82
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1342.04
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $930.67
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $982.28

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

priceline.com Incorporated is an online travel company that offers its customers hotel room reservations at over 210,000 hotels worldwide through the Booking.com, priceline.com and Agoda brands. In the United States, the Company also offers its customers reservations for car rentals, airline tickets, vacation packages, destination services and cruises through the priceline.com brand. It offers car rental reservations worldwide through rentalcars.com. In the United States, the Company also offers customers the ability to purchase other travel services, including airline tickets, rental car days, vacations packages, destination services and cruises through both a traditional, price-disclosed retail manner, and through its demand-collection system known as Name Your Own Price. During the year ended December 31, 2011, it re-branded TravelJigsaw as rentalcars.com through rentalcars.com, it offers retail price-disclosed rental car reservations worldwide.

 

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 Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR)
Stock ticker PBR
Live stock price [stckqut]PBR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $12.8
Target stock price (averages with growth) $14.35
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $15.82
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $12.98

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

Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras (Petrobras) is a Brazil-based integrated oil and gas company. The Company divides its activities into six segments: Exploration and Production; Provision; Gas and Energy; Biofuel; Distribution, and International. Directly or through its subsidiaries, Petrobras is engaged in the research, extraction, refining, processing, trade and transport of oil from wells, shale and other rocks, its derivatives, natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons, as well as in activities related to energy, development, production, transport, distribution and commercialization of energy. The Company is active in Brazil and in 24 countries abroad, with projects situated on five continents. As of December 31, 2011, the Company owned 132 concession contracts for 194 exploration blocks and had a number of subsidiaries, including Petrobras Quimica SA, Petrobras Distribuidora SA, Braspetro Oil Services Company, Braspetro Oil Company, among others.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. I am removing this company from my Watch List.

 

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Company name Net Servicos de Comunicacao SA (ADR)
Stock ticker NETC
Live stock price [stckqut]NETC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

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) $20.46
Target stock price (averages with growth) $21.08
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $12.53
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $16.86

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

Net Servicos de Comunicacao SA is a Brazil-based holding company engaged in the pay-television and broadband Internet industries. The Company provides cable television services under the brand name, NET, and Internet access under the brand name, NET VIRTUA. The Company provides voice services with Empresa Brasileira de Telecommunicacoes SA under the brand name, NET FONE VIA EMBRATEL. As of December 31, 2011, the Company held 100% interest in the subsidiaries: Net Brasilia Ltda., Net Rio Ltda., Net Sao Paulo Ltda., Reyc Comercio e Participacoes Ltda., Jacarei Cabo S.A., 614 TVH Vale Ltda., 614 Servicos de Internet Maceio Ltda. and 614 Servicos de Internet Joao Pessoa Ltda.

 

Confident Investor comments: This is a good stock if you want technology and international exposure to your portfolio. 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 Monster Beverage Corp
Stock ticker MNST
Live stock price [stckqut]MNST[/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) $119.57
Target stock price (averages with growth) $119.52
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $64.05
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $70.3

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

Monster Beverage Corporation, formerly Hansen Natural Corporation, is a holding company. The Company develops, markets, sells and distributes alternative beverage. The Company’s category beverages brand names include Monster Energy, Monster Rehab, Monster Energy Extra Strength Nitrous Technology, Java Monster, X-Presso Monster, Worx Energy, Peace Tea, Hansen’s, Hansen’s Natural Soda, Junior Juice, Blue Sky, Hubert’s and Vidration. The Company operates in two segments: Direct Store Delivery (DSD), whose principal products consists of primarily energy drinks, and Warehouse, whose principal products consists of juice based and soda beverages. In December 2011, the Company acquired PRE Beverage’s assets which include a line of prebiotic and probiotic digestive wellness ready-to-drink beverages and powder drink mixes, containing specially formulated blends by Jarrow Formulas.

 

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 Liberty Property Trust
Stock ticker LRY
Live stock price [stckqut]LRY[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $53.07
Target stock price (averages with growth) $69.04
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $68.46
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $53.03

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

Liberty Property Trust (the Trust) is a self-administered and self-managed Maryland real estate investment trust (REIT). The Trust’s assets are owned directly or indirectly, and all of its operations are conducted directly or indirectly, by its subsidiary, Liberty Property Limited Partnership (the Operating Partnership). It provides leasing, property management, development, acquisition, and other tenant-related services for a portfolio of industrial and office properties, which are located within the Mid-Atlantic, Southeastern, Midwestern and Southwestern United States and the United Kingdom. During the year ended December 31, 2011, it acquired 21 properties comprising 4.2 million square feet. During 2011, it sold 62 operating properties containing an aggregate of 4.2 million square feet and 61 acres of land. On April 3, 2012, it sold 49 properties totaling 2.5 million square feet of space in Wisconsin, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey.

 

Confident Investor comments: This is one of my favorite REITs. At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.