Company name Royal Gold, Inc (USA)
Stock ticker RGLD
Live stock price [stckqut]RGLD[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

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

Royal Gold, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in acquiring and managing precious metal streams, royalties and similar interests. The Company operates through two segments: Acquisition and Management of Stream Interests, and Acquisition and Management of Royalty Interests. Its assets are located in Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Mexico, the United States, Africa, Australia and Other. As of June 30, 2016, the Company owned stream interests on four producing properties and three development-stage properties. It has investments in stream interests relating to Pueblo Viejo, Andacollo, Wassa and Prestea, and Rainy River. As of June 30, 2016, the Company owned royalty interests on 34 producing properties, 21 development-stage properties and 131 exploration-stage properties, of which it considered 50 to be evaluation-stage projects.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Royal Gold, Inc (USA). It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable.
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Company name Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc
Stock ticker REGN
Live stock price [stckqut]REGN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

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) $631.76
Target stock price (averages with growth) $678.45
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $308.09
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $309.59

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

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. The Company’s segment includes activities related to the discovery, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of serious medical conditions. It commercializes medicines for eye diseases, high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and a rare inflammatory condition, and has product candidates in development in other areas of unmet medical need, including oncology, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), asthma, atopic dermatitis, pain and infectious diseases. Its marketed products include EYLEA (aflibercept) injection, Praluent (alirocumab) Injection and ARCALYST (rilonacept) injection for subcutaneous use. Its other products include Sarilumab (REGN88), Dupilumab (REGN668), REGN2222, Fasinumab (REGN475), REGN2810, REGN2176-3, Evinacumab (REGN1500) and REGN1908-1909.

 

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

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How was this analysis of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 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: $408.63
  • Growth: 0.18
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.41
  • P/E: 34
  • Future EPS Calc: $14.66
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $498.59
  • Target stock price: $309.58

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