Company name AT&T Inc.
Stock ticker T
Live stock price [stckqut]T[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $1.75
Target stock price (averages with growth) $2.1
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $2.42
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $23.42

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

AT&T Inc. is a holding company. The Company is a provider of telecommunications services in the United States and worldwide. These include wireless communications, local exchange services, long-distance services, data/broadband and Internet services, video services, managed networking, wholesale services and directory advertising and publishing. It operates in four segments: wireless, which provides both wireless voice and data communications services across the United States and, through roaming agreements, in foreign countries; wireline, which provides landline voice and data communication services, AT&T U-Verse TV, broadband and voice services (U-Verse) and managed networking to business customers; advertising solutions, which publishes Yellow and White Pages directories and sells directory advertising and Internet-based advertising and local search, and other, which provides results from customer information services and all corporate and other operations.

Confident Investor comments: This is the first of a 4 part analysis of Jim Cramer’s “Rough Diamonds of the Dow” and frankly it is not starting well.  I really do not like AT&T. At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.

Jim Cramer of Mad Money and The Street is arguably the most famous stock analyst in today’s media.  The best thing about Jim is that he tries to explain everything in great detail and he also admits when he makes a mistake.  It would be great if more analysts (probably myself included) admitted when they were wrong!

Cramer recently picked his “Diamonds of the Dow” or maybe “Rough Diamonds of the Dow”.  So for the next 4 days we will take each one of these and see how they do in the CIR (Confident Investor Rating) scale.  Should be fun!

The four companies are:

AT&T [stckqut]T[/stckqut]

Boeing [stckqut]BA[/stckqut]

General Electric [stckqut]GE[/stckqut]

Kraft Foods [stckqut]KFT[/stckqut]