I think Facebook, Inc. Common Stock ($FB) is a Possible Buy. It currently should be $266. Confident Investor Rating: Good

 

Company name Facebook, Inc. Common Stock
Stock ticker FB
Live stock price [stckqut]FB[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Good
Income growth Good
Assets growth Good
Return on Assets growth Good
Income / Rev growth Good
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $356.61
Target stock price (averages with growth) $335.89
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $315.83
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $294.54

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/fb/profile?p=fb

Facebook, Inc. develops products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, and in-home devices worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and private messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. Facebook, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Facebook, Inc. Common Stock 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 Facebook, Inc. Common Stock 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: $230.75
  • Growth: 0.1879
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.745
  • P/E: 29.7321716322261
  • Future EPS Calc: $15.95
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $474.35
  • Target stock price: $294.54

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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.

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