Several times a year, a Confident Investor must reevaluate the companies in the portfolio. Keeping your money in a stock that no longer qualifies as a “Good” company can end up hurting your investment performance a great deal. Also, there are a lot of Good Companies so losing the worst of the best is not going to impact the ability to have a balanced portfolio. Over the coming days, this site will evaluate each stock on the Watch List.
| Company name | ANSYS, Inc. |
| Stock ticker | ANSS |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]ANSS[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Good |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Good |
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $86.15 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $114.59 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $83.22 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $81.54 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=anss
ANSYS, Inc. (ANSYS) develops and markets engineering simulation software and technologies widely used by engineers and designers across a spectrum of industries, including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, electronics, biomedical, energy and defense. The Company focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a common platform for product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. The Company distributes its ANSYS suite of simulation technologies through a global network of resellers and distributors (collectively, channel partners) and direct sales offices in global locations. The Company?s product portfolio consists of ANSYS Workbench, Multiphysics, Structural Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics, Explicit Dynamics, Electromagnetics, System and Circuit Simulation, Simulation Process & Data Management, Academic, High-Performance Computing and Geometry Interfaces.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.