| Company name | Verisign, Inc. |
| Stock ticker | VRSN |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]VRSN[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Poor |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $95.08 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $114.46 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $81.59 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $79.58 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=vrsn
VeriSign, Inc. (VeriSign) is a provider of Internet infrastructure services. The Company provides network confidence and availability for mission-critical Internet services, such as domain name registry services and infrastructure assurance services. Its service capabilities enable real-time name resolution for a number of global top level domains (TLDs), enable domain name registration through registrars, and provide security intelligence and cloud-based network availability services to enterprise customers. It has one reportable segment is Naming Services, which consists of Registry Services and Network Intelligence and Availability (NIA) Services. It has operations inside as well as outside the United States (U.S.). Registry Services operates the authoritative directory of all .com, .net, .cc, .tv, and .name domain names and the back-end systems for all .gov, .jobs and .edu domain names.
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Verisign, Inc. as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.
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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: $61.45
Growth: 0.16
Current EPS (TTM): $2.26
P/E: 27
Future EPS Calc: $4.74
Future Stock Price Calc: $128.16
Target stock price: $79.57
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