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Company name IBERIABANK Corporation
Stock ticker IBKC
Live stock price [stckqut]IBKC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Fair
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $78.57
Target stock price (averages with growth) $81.72
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $49.95
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $69.84

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

IBERIABANK Corporation (IBKC) is a financial holding company. The Company operates in three segment levels: IBERIABANK, IBERIABANK fsb, and Lenders Title Company (Lenders Title). As of December 31, 2010, the Company had 226 combined offices, including 145 bank branch offices in Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas, 27 title insurance offices in Arkansas and Louisiana, and mortgage representatives in 54 locations in 12 states. On July 23, 2010, IBERIABANK acquired certain assets of Sterling Bank, including its loan portfolio, and assumed deposits and other liabilities of Sterling Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), as receiver. On December 31, 2010, IBERIABANK fsb, its federal savings bank subsidiary was merged with and into IBERIABANK. On May 31, 2011, the Company acquired OMNI BANCSHARES, Inc. On May 31, 2011, the Company acquired Cameron Bancshares, Inc.

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Company name HMS Holdings Corp.
Stock ticker HMSY
Live stock price [stckqut]HMSY[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $41.35
Target stock price (averages with growth) $54.06
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $34.52
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $44.47

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

HMS Holdings Corp. (HMS) provides a variety of cost containment, coordination of benefits and program integrity services for government and private healthcare payors and sponsors. The Company’s clients are state Medicaid agencies, government-sponsored managed care plans, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), child support agencies, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), commercial plans, self-funded employer plans and other healthcare payors. In September 2010, the Company acquired Chapman Kelly, Inc. In June 2010, it acquired privately-held Allied Management Group, Special Investigation Unit (AMG-SIU). Coordination of benefits services route claims already paid by a government program to the liable third party, which then reimburses the government payer.

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It is almost not possible to turn on the news without hearing about Occupy Wall Street. This “uprising” has now morphed into Occupy [name your city] all over the country. So where do you rank?  Are you a member of the elite 1% or the struggling 99% that is supposed to be represented by the campers in parks all across America?

There are two great calculators to see how you rank.  The first calculator is on Kiplinger and it simply compares your income level to the rest of America.  The second calculator is on MSN and digs in a bit more and compares your income, assets, and debt to the median as well as your “peer group” of people that have your income and are in the same age group.

It is worthwhile to do both calculators. For me, I am not in the top 1% but I am considerably higher up the scale than the majority of Americans. On the MSN calculator I was not surprised to see I had far less debt, far more savings invested and my house was worth less than others in my peer group.  This revelation didn’t surprise me as that is a big reason that I run this site – I have learned a lot about creating wealth and it shows when compared to most people that are my age and have the same level of income.

I suggest that you take the test.  It takes less than 5 minutes on either site and it may reveal more than you thought.  While you are at it, enjoy this little image that I found on digg.com.

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Company name Hansen Natural Corporation
Stock ticker HANS
Live stock price [stckqut]HANS[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $132.91
Target stock price (averages with growth) $155.8
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $95.52
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $120.22

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

Hansen Natural Corporation (Hansen) is a holding company. Hansen develops, markets, sells and distributes alternative beverage. The Company’s category beverages brand names include Monster Energy, Java Monster, Monster Energy Extra Strength Nitrous Technology, Monster Rehab, Peace Tea, Hansen’s, Hansen’s Natural Sodas, Junior Juice, Blue Sky, X-Presso Monster, Vidration, Worx Energy, Admiral, Lost Energy, Hubert’s, Rumba, Samba and Tango. It has two segments: Direct Store Delivery (DSD), whose principal products consists of primarily energy drinks, and Warehouse, whose principal products consists of juice based and soda beverages. In March 2010, Hansen launched Blue Sky Shots, natural functional shots. In September 2010, the Company introduced a Blue Sky Free Blue Energy drink. In August 2010, the Company introduced Hubert’s Lemonade. In February 2010, it introduced the Fruit and Tea Stix product line. In March 2010, it introduced Admiral Iced Teas.

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Company name Goldcorp Inc. (USA)
Stock ticker GG
Live stock price [stckqut]GG[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $71.59
Target stock price (averages with growth) $136.09
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $135.77
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $64.43

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

Goldcorp Inc. (Goldcorp) a gold producer engaged in the operation, exploration, development and acquisition of precious metal properties in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Central and South America. As of December 31, 2010, the Company�s producing mining properties were consisted of the Red Lake, Porcupine and Musselwhite gold mines in Canada; the Penasquito gold/silver/lead/zinc mine which was commissioned on September 1, 2010, Los Filos and El Sauzal gold mines in Mexico; the Marlin gold/silver mine in Guatemala; the Alumbrera gold/copper mine (37.5% interest) in Argentina; the Marigold (66.7% interest,; and Wharf gold mines in the United States. . On October 20, 2010, the Company completed the sale of its remaining 58.1% interest in Terrane Metals Corp. On December 29, 2010, the Company completed the acquisition of Andean Resources Limited. On February 8, 2011, the Company disposed of its 10.1% interest in Osisko Mining Corporation (Osisko).

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.