Garmin Ltd. ($GRMN) Target: $29 Confident Investor Rating: Poor
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Company name | Garmin Ltd. |
Stock ticker | GRMN |
Live stock price | [stckqut]GRMN[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Good |
Employee productivity | Fair |
Sales growth | Poor |
EPS growth | Poor |
P/E growth | Good |
EBIT growth | Poor |
Confident Investor Rating | Poor |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $25.13 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $31.41 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $30.89 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $29.4 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=grmn
Garmin Ltd. (Garmin) is a provider of navigation, communication and information devices and applications, which are enabled by global positioning system (GPS) technology. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of hand-held, portable and fixed-mount GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communications and information products for the automotive/mobile, outdoor/fitness, marine and general aviation markets. The Company operates in four segments: Marine, Automotive/Mobile, Outdoor/Fitness and Aviation. In September 2010, the Company acquired MetriGear, Inc. In October 2010, the Company acquired Belanor AS.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.