ABIOMED, Inc. ($ABMD) Possible Buy to $28 Confident Investor Rating: Good
| Company name | ABIOMED, Inc. |
| Stock ticker | ABMD |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]ABMD[/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) | $36.26 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $38.74 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $16 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $36.31 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=abmd
ABIOMED, Inc. develops temporary and permanent cardiac support systems. The Company develops, manufactures and markets medical technologies designed to assist or replace the pumping function of the failing heart. It focuses on the development of two temporary support systems, the bi-ventricular support system (BVS) and the intra-arterial cardiac support system (ICs). The Company sells its products through direct sales representatives and clinical support personnel in the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Ireland; and internationally.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.
If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor.
For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
[s2If current_user_can(s2member_level1)]
In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:
Stock price at the time of the calculation: $23.08
Growth: 0.2
Current EPS (TTM): $0.25
P/E: 94
Future EPS Calc: $0.62
Future Stock Price Calc: $58.47
Target stock price: $36.3
I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]