Company name Buffalo Wild Wings
Stock ticker BWLD
Live stock price [stckqut]BWLD[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $134.22
Target stock price (averages with growth) $163.49
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $92.05
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $146.33

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

Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. (Buffalo Wild Wings) is an owner, operator and franchisor of restaurants featuring various menu items. The Company’s restaurants feature a bar, which offers a selection of 20 to 30 domestic, imported and craft beers on tap, as well as bottled beers, wine and liquor. The Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants feature various menu items, including its Buffalo, New York-style chicken wings spun in one of its signature sauces from sweet to screamin’ hot, which includes Sweet barbeque (BBQ), Teriyaki, Bourbon Honey Mustard, Mild, Parmesan Garlic, Medium, Honey BBQ, Spicy Garlic, Asian Zing, Caribbean Jerk, Thai Curry, Hot BBQ, Hot, Mango Habanero, Wild and Blazin’, or signature seasonings, Buffalo, Desert Heat, Chipotle BBQ, Lemon Pepper, and Salt & Vinegar. Its restaurants include a multi-media system, a bar and an open layout. It operates Buffalo Wild Wings, R Taco and PizzaRev restaurants, as well as sells Buffalo Wild Wings and R Taco restaurant franchises.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Buffalo Wild Wings as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I will be keeping Buffalo Wild Wings on my Watch List but I am a bit concerned that the company isn’t achieving my goals.

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How was this analysis of Buffalo Wild Wings 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: $143.04
  • Growth: 0.11
  • Current EPS (TTM): $5.18
  • P/E: 27
  • Future EPS Calc: $8.72
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $235.67
  • Target stock price: $146.33

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Company name BlackRock, Inc.
Stock ticker BLK
Live stock price [stckqut]BLK[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $300.71
Target stock price (averages with growth) $284.15
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $164.3
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $309.88

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

BlackRock, Inc. is an investment management company. The Company provides a range of investment and risk management services to institutional and retail clients across the world. Its offerings include single and multi-asset class portfolios investing in equities, fixed income, alternatives and money market instruments. Its products are offered directly and through intermediaries in a range of vehicles, including open-end and closed-end mutual funds, iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs), separate accounts, collective investment funds and other pooled investment vehicles. The Company offers its BlackRock Solutions (BRS) investment and risk management technology platform, Aladdin; risk analytics, and advisory services and solutions to institutional investors. BRS also offers risk reporting capabilities via the Green Package and risk management advisory services; interactive fixed income analytics through its Web-based calculator, AnSer; outsourcing services, and investment accounting.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in BlackRock, Inc. as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I will be removing BlackRock from my Watch List as it’s performance no longer fits my goals.

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 BlackRock, Inc. 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: $341.88
  • Growth: 0.08
  • Current EPS (TTM): $18.87
  • P/E: 18
  • Future EPS Calc: $27.72
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $499.07
  • Target stock price: $309.88

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Company name Balchem Corporation
Stock ticker BCPC
Live stock price [stckqut]BCPC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $50.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $56.58
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $32.94
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $53.59

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

Balchem Corporation (Balchem) is engaged in the development, manufacture, distribution and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for the food, nutritional, feed, pharmaceutical and medical sterilization industries. The Company operates in four segments: SensoryEffects, Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH), Specialty Products and Industrial Products. Its SensoryEffects segment provides creamer systems, dairy replacers, powdered fats, nutritional beverage bases, beverages, juice and dairy bases, chocolate systems, ice cream bases and variegates, grain-based snacks and cereal-based ingredients. ANH segment provides basic choline chloride, and microencapsulation and chelation technologies-based nutritional products. Specialty Products segment provides ethylene oxide and propylene oxide products. Its Industrial Products segment provides Choline Chloride and methylamines. The Company sells its products through its own sales force, independent distributors and sales agents.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Balchem Corporation as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I will be removing Balchem from my Watch List.

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 Balchem Corporation 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: $58.82
  • Growth: 0.08
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.78
  • P/E: 33
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.61
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $86.3
  • Target stock price: $53.59

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