Company name Volterra Semiconductor Corporation
Stock ticker VLTR
Live stock price [stckqut]VLTR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $34.66
Target stock price (averages with growth) $68.78
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $69.03
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $33.19

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

Volterra Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops and markets analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking, and consumer markets. The Company’s products are integrated voltage regulator semiconductors, integrated power protection and distribution semiconductors, and scalable voltage regulator semiconductor chipsets that transform, regulate, deliver and monitor the power consumed by digital semiconductors. Through its power system architecture and mixed-signal design techniques, it has integrated power, analog and digital circuits onto a single complementary metal oxide silicon (CMOS) semiconductor. The Company sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs), contract equipment manufacturers (CEMs), and merchant power supply manufacturers, directly through its internal sales force and indirectly through distributors and outsourced suppliers.

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

 

Company name Urban Outfitters, Inc.
Stock ticker URBN
Live stock price [stckqut]URBN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $28.4
Target stock price (averages with growth) $42.11
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $36.3
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $28.48

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

Urban Outfitters, Inc. (Urban Outfitters) is a lifestyle specialty retail company that operates under the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain, Leifsdottir and BHLDN brands. The Company also operates a wholesale segment under the Free People and Leifsdottir brands. Its retail stores offer collections of fashion apparel, accessories and home goods. In addition to its retail stores, the Company offers its products and markets its brands directly to the consumer through its e-commerce Websites, www.urbanoutfitters.com, www.anthropologie.com, www.freepeople.com, www.urbanoutfitters.co.uk www.urbanoutfitters.de, www.urbanoutfitters.fr, www.anthropologie.eu, www.leifsdottir.com, www.shopterrain.com and www.bhldn.com and also through its Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People catalogs.

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

Company name The Boston Beer Company, Inc.
Stock ticker SAM
Live stock price [stckqut]SAM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $150.42
Target stock price (averages with growth) $148.23
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $115.82
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $119.79

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

The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (Boston Beer) is a craft brewer in the United States. Boston Beer produces malt beverages and hard cider products at the Company-owned breweries and under contract arrangements at other brewery locations. The Company-owned breweries are located in Boston, Massachusetts (the Boston Brewery), Cincinnati, Ohio (the Cincinnati Brewery) and Breinigsville, Pennsylvania (the Pennsylvania Brewery). During the fiscal year ended December 25, 2010 (fiscal 2010), Boston Beer sold approximately approximately 2.3 million barrels of its products (core brands) and brewed or packaged approximately 13,000 barrels under contract (non-core brands) for third-parties. During fiscal 2010, the Company sold over 20 beers under the Samuel Adams or the Sam Adams brand names, eight flavored malt beverage products under the Twisted Tea brand name, and one hard cider product under the HardCore brand name.

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

Company name Research In Motion Limited (USA)
Stock ticker RIMM
Live stock price [stckqut]RIMM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $20.03
Target stock price (averages with growth) $54.43
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $72.7
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $17.96

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

Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. RIM provides platforms and solutions for access to information, including e-mail, voice, instant messaging, short message service (SMS), Internet and intranet-based applications and browsing. RIM’s portfolio includes the BlackBerry wireless solution, the RIM Wireless Handheld product line, software development tools and other software and hardware. On June 2, 2010, Harman International sold its software operating systems unit, QNX Software Systems, to the Company. On March 25, 2011, RIM purchased 100% of the shares of a company whose technology is being incorporated into the Company’s developer tools. On April 26, 2011, the Company purchased certain assets of a company whose acquired technologies will be incorporated into the Company’s products. In June 2011, the Company acquired Scoreloop.

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good, in fact the company ranks as a Good company, but there are some concerns with the price of the stock. Most notably, it has really been beaten up by its competitors and may not be able to survive as a stand-alone company much longer. One of the reason’s it still has a Good Confident Investor Rating is because the P/E is so low compared to its competitors which in turn begs the question if the company is really still viable.

While the company has a Good rating, I have removed it from my Watch List.

Company name Royal Gold, Inc.
Stock ticker RGLD
Live stock price [stckqut]RGLD[/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) $123.11
Target stock price (averages with growth) $156.06
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $112.82
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $108.8

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

Royal Gold, Inc. (Royal Gold) together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the business of acquiring and managing precious metals royalties and similar interests derived from production. The Company focuses to acquire existing royalties or to finance projects that are in production or in development stage in exchange for royalty interests. As of June 30, 2010, the Company owns royalties on 33 producing properties, 23 development stage properties and over 130 exploration-stage properties, of which the Company considers 37 to be evaluation stage projects.32 producing properties. On January 25, 2010, Royal Gold acquired an interest in the gold produced from the sulfide portion of the Andacollo project in Chile (Andacollo Royalty). On February 22, 2010, the Company, through RG Exchangeco Inc., wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of Royal Gold acquired all of International Royalty Corporation (IRC).

Confident Investor comments: The target price on this stock is likely a bit too high. Royal Gold is a reasonable play on the gold price and that is driving the valuation. If the price of this stock starts to approach the target price but the price of gold has not similarly increased then there would be instability in the stock price. However, at this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.