Company name Jarden Corp
Stock ticker JAH
Live stock price [stckqut]JAH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $72.82
Target stock price (averages with growth) $70.01
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $33.67
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $61.03

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

Jarden Corporation is a global consumer products company. The Company has diverse portfolio of products, over 120 iconic brands and present across the world. The Company operates in three primary business segments, allowing it to enhance the lives of consumers in countless aspects of everyday life. From Branded Consumables such as First Alert, First Essentials, Lehigh, Loew Cornell, Pine Mountain, and Quickie, to Consumer Solutions such as Bionaire, Crock-Pot, FoodSaver, Health o meter, Holmes, Mr. Coffee, and Oster, its products can be found in homes and businesses across the world. The Company offers globally recognized Outdoor Solutions such as Abu Garcia, Aero, Berkley, Coleman, Fenwick, K2, Marmot, Mitchell, Penn, Rawlings, Yankee Candle, and Zoot, among many others.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Jarden Corp 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. 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 Jarden Corp 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: $53.3
  • Growth: 0.13
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.97
  • P/E: 55
  • Future EPS Calc: $1.78
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $98.29
  • Target stock price: $61.03

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Company name Helmerich & Payne, Inc.
Stock ticker HP
Live stock price [stckqut]HP[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $77.42
Target stock price (averages with growth) $77.02
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $41.15
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $78.36

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

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is engaged in contract drilling of oil and gas wells for others. The Company is also engaged in the ownership, development and operation of commercial real estate and the research and development of rotary steerable technology. The Company operates in three segments: U.S Land operates its drilling operations in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia and Nevada; Offshore operates its drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, and offshore of California and Equatorial Guinea, and International Land operates its drilling operations in six international locations, which include Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Tunisia, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates (UAE).

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Helmerich & Payne, Inc. 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. 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 Helmerich & Payne, 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: $73.33
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.51
  • P/E: 11
  • Future EPS Calc: $11.47
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $126.2
  • Target stock price: $78.36

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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.