Company name Seacor Holdings, Inc.
Stock ticker CKH
Live stock price [stckqut]CKH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $119.19
Target stock price (averages with growth) $96.25
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $60.17
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $100.13

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

SEACOR Holdings Inc is a global provider of equipment and services primarily supporting the offshore oil and gas and marine transportation industries. The Company offers customers a diversified suite of services, including offshore marine, aviation, inland river, marine transportation, crisis and emergency management preparedness and response solutions, commodity trading and logistics and offshore and harbor towing. On March 19, 2012, J.F. Lehman & Company acquired National Response Corporation and its affiliated businesses NRC Environmental Services, SEACOR Response, and SEACOR Environmental Products (collectively NRC) from the Company. In January 2013, the Company sold its energy trading division, SEACOR Energy Inc. to Par Petroleum Corporation. On January 31, 2013, it completed the spin off its Era Group Inc unit (Era).

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Seacor Holdings, Inc.

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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: $90.94

Growth: 0.12

Current EPS (TTM): $1.22

P/E: 75

Future EPS Calc: $2.15

Future Stock Price Calc: $161.25

Target stock price: $100.12

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