Company name Gulfport Energy Corporation
Stock ticker GPOR
Live stock price [stckqut]GPOR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

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) $91.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $119.23
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $75.27
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $92.24

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

Gulfport Energy Corporation (Gulfport) is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company with its principal producing properties located along the Louisiana Gulf Coast in the West Cote Blanche Bay, or WCBB, and Hackberry fields, and in West Texas in the Permian Basin. During the year ended December, 31, 2011, it acquired its initial acreage position in the Utica Shale in Eastern Ohio. The Company also holds an acreage position in the Alberta oil sands in Canada through its interest in Grizzly Oil Sands ULC, and has interests in entities that operate in Southeast Asia, including the Phu Horm gas field in Thailand. In February 2013, it raised its stake to 93.8%, by acquiring a 16.2% stake in the Utica Shale assets, located in Ohio, from Windsor Ohio LLC.

 

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

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How was this analysis of Gulfport Energy Corporation calculated?

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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: $59.38

Growth: 0.2

Current EPS (TTM): $1.99

P/E: 30

Future EPS Calc: $4.95

Future Stock Price Calc: $148.55

Target stock price: $92.23

I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]

Company name Google Inc
Stock ticker GOOG
Live stock price [stckqut]GOOG[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $633.17
Target stock price (averages with growth) $839.56
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $628.82
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $607.82

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

Google Inc. (Google), is a global technology company. The Company’s business is primarily focused around key areas, such as search, advertising, operating systems and platforms, enterprise and hardware products. The Company generates revenue primarily by delivering online advertising. The Company also generates revenues from Motorola by selling hardware products. The Company provides its products and services in more than 100 languages and in more than 50 countries, regions, and territories. Effective February 7, 2014, Google Inc acquired the remaining 88% interest in Nest Labs Inc. Effective February 21, 2014, Google Inc acquired Spider.io, a provider of online fraud detection services. Effective March 12, 2014, Google Inc acquired Green Throttle Games. In April 2014, Google Inc acquired Titan Aerospace. Effective May 5, 2014, the Company acquired Rangespan. Effective May 6, 2014, the Company acquired Adometry Inc. Effective May 7, 2014, the Company acquired Appetas Inc.

 

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

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of Google Inc calculated?

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.
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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: $511

Growth: 0.14

Current EPS (TTM): $18.83

P/E: 27

Future EPS Calc: $36.25

Future Stock Price Calc: $978.9

Target stock price: $607.81

I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]