Shutterfly, Inc. ($SFLY) Cautious Buy or Hold to $38 Confident Investor Rating: Fair

Company name Shutterfly, Inc.
Stock ticker SFLY
Live stock price [stckqut]SFLY[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Fair
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $51.83
Target stock price (averages with growth) $59.95
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $32.1
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $4.96

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

Shutterfly, Inc. is an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service that enables consumers to share, print and preserve their memories its technology, manufacturing, Web-design and merchandising capabilities. The Company provides a range of personalized photo-based products and services that allow consumers to upload, edit, enhance, organize, find, share, create, print, and preserve their memories. It generate revenues by producing and selling professionally bound photo books, greeting cards and stationery, personalized calendars, other photo-based merchandise and prints ranging in size from wallet-sized to jumbo-sized 20×30 enlargements. It offers multiple premium brands, including shutterfly.com tinyprints.com and weddingpaperdivas.com. In May 2012, the Company acquired Photoccino, a developer of technologies for photo ranking, analysis and organization based in Haifa, Israel. In January 2013, the Company acquired ThisLife.

 

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 but there are some concerns.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.