Company name | Coherent, Inc. |
Stock ticker | COHR |
Live stock price | [stckqut]COHR[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Poor |
Sales growth | Good |
EPS growth | Good |
P/E growth | Poor |
EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Good |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $130.92 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $116.73 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $116.73 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $117.04 |
The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/cohr
Coherent, Inc., incorporated on January 11, 1989, is a photonics manufacturer. The Company is engaged in designing, manufacturing, servicing and marketing of lasers and related accessories for a range of scientific, commercial and industrial applications. The Company operates through two segments: Specialty Lasers and Systems (SLS) and Commercial Lasers and Components (CLC). The Specialty Lasers and Systems segment develops and manufactures configurable products serving the microelectronics, scientific research and government programs, and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) components and instrumentation markets. The Commercial Lasers and Components segment focuses on higher volume products that are offered in set configurations. The product architectures are designed for exchange at the point of use such that substantially all product service and repairs are based upon advanced replacement and depot (that is factory) repair. CLC’s primary markets include materials processing, OEM components, and instrumentation and microelectronics.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Coherent, Inc. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.
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How was this analysis of Coherent, 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: $113.72
- Growth: 0.11
- Current EPS (TTM): $7.99
- P/E: 14
- Future EPS Calc: $13.46
- Future Stock Price Calc: $188.49
- Target stock price: $117.03
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