Company name | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. |
Stock ticker | TMO |
Live stock price | [stckqut]TMO[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Poor |
Sales growth | Fair |
EPS growth | Fair |
P/E growth | Poor |
EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $156.83 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $144.35 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $77.72 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $157.26 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=tmo
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. develops, manufactures and sells a range of products. The Company is a provider of analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, manufacturing, analysis, discovery and diagnostics. The company operates through four segments: Life Sciences Solutions, Analytical Instruments, Specialty Diagnostics, and Laboratory Products and Services. Through the Life Sciences Solutions segment, it provides reagents, instruments and consumables used in biological and medical research, discovery and production of new drugs and vaccines, as well as diagnosis of disease. Through the Analytical Instruments segment, it provides instruments, consumables, software and services. The Specialty Diagnostics segment offers diagnostic test kits, reagents, culture media, instruments and associated products. The Laboratory Products and Services segment offers self-manufactured and sourced products for the laboratory.
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Thermo Fisher Scientific 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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How was this analysis of Thermo Fisher Scientific 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: $150.05
- Growth: 0.11
- Current EPS (TTM): $5.01
- P/E: 30
- Future EPS Calc: $8.44
- Future Stock Price Calc: $253.26
- Target stock price: $157.25
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