I think EPAM Systems Inc ($EPAM) is a Cautious Buy/Hold. It currently should be $265. Confident Investor Rating: Fair
Company name | EPAM Systems Inc |
Stock ticker | EPAM |
Live stock price | [stckqut]EPAM[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Poor |
Sales growth | Good |
EPS growth | Good |
P/E growth | Fair |
EBIT growth | Good |
Price growth | Good |
R&D growth | Poor |
Income growth | Good |
Assets growth | Good |
Return on Assets growth | Poor |
Income / Rev growth | Good |
TWCA Plus | Good |
Standard TWCA | Good |
Weighted ann. stock price increase | Good |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $363.61 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $294.21 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $273.39 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $276.71 |
The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/epam/profile?p=epam
EPAM Systems, Inc. provides digital platform engineering and software development services in North America, Europe, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Asia, and Australia. The company offers engineering services, including requirements analysis and platform selection, customization, cross-platform migration, implementation, and integration; infrastructure management services, such as software development, testing, and maintenance with private, public, and mobile infrastructures for application, database, network, server, storage, and systems operations management, as well as monitoring, incident notification, and resolution services; and maintenance and support services. It also provides operation solutions comprising integrated engineering practices and smart automation; and optimization solutions that include software application testing, test management, automation, and consulting services to enable customers enhance their existing software testing and quality assurance practices, as well as other testing services that identify threats and close loopholes to protect its customers’ business systems from information loss. In addition, the company offers industry, technology, experience, and technical advisory consulting services; and digital and service design solutions, which comprise strategy, design, creative, and program management services, as well as physical product development. It serves the financial services, travel and consumer, software and hi-tech, business information and media, life sciences and healthcare, and other industries. EPAM Systems, Inc. has a partnership with Curogram to help healthcare systems implement a simplified COVID-19 crisis response solution. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in EPAM Systems 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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How was this analysis of EPAM Systems 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: $234.83
- Growth: 0.192333333333333
- Current EPS (TTM): $4.245
- P/E: 43.5640524616181
- Future EPS Calc: $10.22
- Future Stock Price Calc: $445.65
- Target stock price: $276.71
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