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Company name Quality Systems, Inc.
Stock ticker QSII
Live stock price [stckqut]QSII[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
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) $44.33
Target stock price (averages with growth) $64.06
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $50.38
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $45.75

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

Quality Systems, Inc. develops and markets healthcare information systems that automate certain aspects of physician, inpatient and dental practices, networks of practices, such as physician hospital organizations (PHOs) and management service organizations (MSOs), ambulatory care centers, community health centers, Federal Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and medical and dental schools. The Company also provides inpatient electronic health records (EHR) and financial solutions for community hospitals, as well as revenue cycle management (RCM) services through the Practice Solutions Division. The Company along with its wholly owned subsidiaries operates as four business divisions: the QSI Dental Division, the NextGen Division, the Inpatient Solutions Division, and the Practice Solutions Division.

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

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Company name Potash Corp./Saskatchewan (USA)
Stock ticker POT
Live stock price [stckqut]POT[/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) $71.33
Target stock price (averages with growth) $71.54
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $56.98
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $32.97

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

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PCS) is an integrated fertilizer and related industrial and feed products company. The Company owns and operates five potash mines in Saskatchewan and one in New Brunswick. It also holds mineral rights t the Esterhazy mine where potash is produced under a mining and processing agreement with a third party. Its phosphate operations include the manufacture and sale of solid and liquid phosphate fertilizers; animal feed supplements and industrial acid, which is used in food products and industrial processes. It has a phosphate mine and two mineral processing plant complexes in northern Florida and six phosphates feed plants in the United States. Its nitrogen operations involve the production of nitrogen fertilizers and nitrogen feed and industrial products, including ammonia, urea, nitrogen solutions, ammonium nitrate and nitric acid. It has nitrogen facilities in Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio and Trinidad.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. There is some risk that my target price is a bit too generous but I think that the company is good to go up at least $10 from here.

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Company name PNC Financial Services
Stock ticker PNC
Live stock price [stckqut]PNC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $81.05
Target stock price (averages with growth) $101.55
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $89.39
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $63.14

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

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (PNC) is a diversified financial services company in the United States. PNC is engaged in retail banking, corporate and institutional banking, asset management, and residential mortgage banking, providing many of its products and services nationally and others in its geographic markets located in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Michigan, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Virginia, Missouri, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin. It provides certain products and services internationally. Retail Banking provides deposit, lending, brokerage, trust, investment management, and cash management services. Corporate and Institutional Banking provides lending, treasury management, and capital markets-related products and services. Asset Management Group includes personal wealth management for high net worth and ultra high net worth clients and institutional asset management.

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

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Company name priceline.com Incorporated
Stock ticker PCLN
Live stock price [stckqut]PCLN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
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) $803.18
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1011.59
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $607.26
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $807.77

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

priceline.com Incorporated is a global online travel company that offers its customers a range of travel services, including the opportunity to purchase hotel room reservations, car rentals, airline tickets, vacation packages, cruises and destination services in a price-disclosed manner. It also offers its Name Your Own Price service that helps its customers to use the Internet to save money by allowing them to make offers for travel services at prices they set, while enabling sellers, which include many of the domestic hotel, airline and rental car companies, to generate revenue. It offers its customers hotel room reservations at over 150,000 hotels worldwide through the Booking.com, priceline.com and Agoda brands. It offers customers the ability to make hotel reservations on a worldwide basis. It offers a retail price-disclosed rental car reservation service through TravelJigsaw Limited, which it acquired in May 2010.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. It is very rare for a stock to have this much green on the metrics that I monitor. This has historically been a very well run company and we have every reason to think this will continue.

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Company name Petroleo Brasileiro SA (ADR)
Stock ticker PBR
Live stock price [stckqut]PBR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
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) $26.67
Target stock price (averages with growth) $41.98
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $47.97
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $30.56

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

Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras (Petrobras) is a Brazilian integrated oil and gas company. It operates in five segments: exploration and production; refining, commercialization and transport of oil and natural gas; petrochemicals; distribution of derivatives, electrical energy, biofuels and other renewable energy sources. Directly or through its subsidiaries, Petrobras is engaged in the research, extraction, refining, processing, commercialization and transport of oil from wells, shales and other rocks, its derivatives, natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons, as well as in activities related to energy, promoting research, development, production, transport, distribution and commercialization of all forms of energy. As of December 31, 2010, it had 132 production platforms, 16 refineries, 291 vessels, 29,398 kilometers of pipelines, six biofuel plants, 16 thermoelectric plants, one pilot wind farm, 8,477 service stations and two fertilizer plants, as well as presence in 30 countries.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. This is another good candidate if you need international (especially Brazilian) exposure in your portfolio.