Gray Television, Inc. ($GTN) Possible Buy to $17 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Gray Television, Inc.
Stock ticker GTN
Live stock price [stckqut]GTN[/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) $85.99
Target stock price (averages with growth) $49.45
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $12.64
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $17.68

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

Gray Television, Inc. is a television broadcast company. The Company owns and operates television stations and digital assets in various markets across the United States. As of February 21, 2017, the Company owned and/or operated television stations in 54 television markets broadcasting over 200 separate programming streams, including 37 affiliates of the CBS Network (CBS), 29 affiliates of the NBC Network (NBC), 20 affiliates of the ABC Network (ABC) and 15 affiliates of the FOX Network (FOX). In addition to a primary broadcast channel, each of its stations can also broadcast additional secondary digital channels within a market by utilizing the same bandwidth, but with different programming from the primary channel. The Company also broadcasts local news/weather channels in certain of its existing markets. Along with affiliations with ABC, CBS and FOX, the Company’s secondary channels are affiliated with various smaller networks and program services.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Gray Television, Inc. as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of Gray Television, Inc. are good, in fact the company ranks as a Good company, but there are some concerns with the price of the stock.

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 Gray Television, 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.
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]

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: $15.45
  • Growth: 0.13
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.61
  • P/E: 9.6
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.96
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $28.47
  • Target stock price: $17.68

[/s2If]
I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.