I think CoStar Group Inc ($CSGP) is a Possible Buy. It currently should be $849. Confident Investor Rating: Good
Company name | CoStar Group Inc |
Stock ticker | CSGP |
Live stock price | [stckqut]CSGP[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Poor |
Sales growth | Good |
EPS growth | Good |
P/E growth | Poor |
EBITDA growth | Good |
Price growth | Good |
R&D growth | Good |
Income growth | Good |
Assets growth | Good |
Return on Assets growth | Good |
Market Capitalization Growth | Good |
Income / Rev growth | Good |
TWCA Plus | Good |
Standard TWCA | Good |
Weighted ann. stock price increase | Good |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Good |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $1068.81 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $1592.66 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $1067.6 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $1014.78 |
The following company description is from Yahoo: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/csgp/profile?p=csgp
CoStar Group, Inc. provides information, analytics, and online marketplaces to the commercial real estate industry in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company offers CoStar Property Professional service that offers inventory of office, industrial, retail, and multifamily, and student housing properties and land. It also provides CoStar COMPS Professional that covers comparable commercial real estate sales information; CoStar Market Analytics to view and report on aggregated market and submarket trends; CoStar Tenant, an online business-to-business prospecting and analytical tool; CoStar Lease Comps, a solution to capture, manage, and maintain lease data; CoStar Lease Analysis, a workflow tool; and CoStar Public Record, a searchable database of commercially-zoned parcels. In addition, the company offers CoStar Real Estate Manager, a real estate and asset management, and lease accounting software; CoStar Risk Analytics, a commercial real estate risk management tool; and CoStar Investment Analysis that provides market research, consulting and analysis, portfolio and debt analysis, and management and reporting services, as well as STAR Report that offers benchmarking and analytics for the hospitality industry. Further, it provides apartment marketing sites, such as Apartments.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, Apartamentos.com, WestsideRentals.com, AFTER55.com, CorporateHousing.com and ForRentUniversity.com; LoopNet Premium Lister and LoopNet Signature Ads for commercial real estate professionals; Realla, a commercial property listings and data management platform; LandsofAmerica, LandAndFarm, and LandWatch online marketplaces for rural land for sale; and BizBuySell, BizQuest, FindaFranchise online marketplaces for operating businesses for sale. CoStar Group, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in CoStar Group Inc 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 CoStar Group Inc 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: $691.63
- Growth: 0.1504
- Current EPS (TTM): $11.08284375
- P/E: 73.1881036582284
- Future EPS Calc: $22.33
- Future Stock Price Calc: $1634.31
- Target stock price: $1014.78
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