By:
On:
In: Daily gains
With: 0 Comments
Symbol Stock Price change today
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) 6.6071%
ATHM Autohome Inc 5.8076%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. 5.2824%
MTZ MasTec, Inc. 4.908%
HZO MarineMax Inc 4.0125%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc 3.9211%
EVR Evercore Inc 3.7938%
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 3.7566%
LGIH LGI Homes Inc 3.3516%
NSP Insperity Inc 3.0542%
MTCH Match Group Inc 2.8671%
AVGO Broadcom Inc 2.7829%
THRM Gentherm Inc 2.4162%
MEOH Methanex Corporation 2.2676%
ETFC E*TRADE Financial Corp 2.0666%
FIVE Five Below Inc 2.0637%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. 1.9988%
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. 1.9713%
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc 1.9155%
TNET TriNet Group Inc 1.8909%
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. 1.8852%
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc 1.5476%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. 1.1695%
V Visa Inc 1.0342%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc 0.8909%
SINA SINA Corp 0.7516%
MA Mastercard Inc 0.7266%
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc 0.7121%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. 0.5594%
COHR Coherent, Inc. 0.5402%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A 0.5185%
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. 0.4991%
AAPL Apple Inc. 0.4629%
FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock 0.3493%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. 0.3337%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. 0.3264%
CBPO China Biologic Products Holdings Inc 0.31%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation 0.2158%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated 0.195%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. 0.1886%
LRCX Lam Research Corporation 0.1808%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. 0.1751%
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.1242%
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. 0.0554%
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A -0.0115%
EPAM EPAM Systems Inc -0.526%
FTNT Fortinet Inc -0.5596%
SUI Sun Communities Inc -0.5966%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation -0.6895%
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. -0.7349%
BKNG Booking Holdings Inc -0.9415%
KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc -1.1067%
JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC -1.2566%
SIVB SVB Financial Group -1.3674%
ANET Arista Networks Inc -1.7857%

By:
On:
In: Good company, Stock analysis
Tagged:
With: 0 Comments

 

Company name Adobe Inc
Stock ticker ADBE
Live stock price [stckqut]ADBE[/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 Fair
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) $603.27
Target stock price (averages with growth) $509.74
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $488.56
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $601.64

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

Adobe Inc. operates as a diversified software company worldwide. Its Digital Media segment provides tools and solutions that enable individuals, small and medium businesses, and enterprises to create, publish, promote, and monetize their digital content. Its flagship product is Creative Cloud, a subscription service that allows customer to download and access the latest versions of its creative products. This segment serves traditional content creators, Web application developers, and digital media professionals, as well as their management in marketing departments and agencies, companies, and publishers. The company’s Digital Experience segment offers solutions for how digital advertising and marketing are created, managed, executed, measured, and optimized. This segment provides analytics, social marketing, targeting, media optimization, digital experience management, cross-channel campaign management, marketing automation, audience management, and video delivery and monetization solutions to digital marketers, advertisers, publishers, merchandisers, Web analysts, chief marketing officers, chief information officers, and chief revenue officers. Its Publishing segment offers products and services, such as e-learning solutions, technical document publishing, Web application development, and high-end printing, as well as publishing needs of technical and business, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) printing businesses. The company offers its products and services directly to enterprise customers through its sales force, as well as to end-users through app stores and through its Website at adobe.com. It also distributes products and services through a network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, software vendors and developers, retailers, and OEMs. The company was formerly known as Adobe Systems Incorporated and changed its name to Adobe Inc. in October 2018. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Adobe Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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 Adobe 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: $390.44
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.6
  • P/E: 59
  • Future EPS Calc: $16.42
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $968.95
  • Target stock price: $601.64

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

By:
On:
In: Good company, Stock analysis
Tagged:
With: 0 Comments

 

Company name ABIOMED, Inc.
Stock ticker ABMD
Live stock price [stckqut]ABMD[/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
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) $356.33
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1250.69
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $346.48
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $355.92

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

Abiomed, Inc. engages in the research, development, and sale of medical devices to assist or replace the pumping function of the failing heart. It also provides continuum of care to heart failure patients. The company offers Impella 2.5 catheter, a percutaneous micro heart pump with integrated motor and sensors for use in interventional cardiology; and Impella CP, a device used by interventional cardiologists to support patients in the cath lab and cardiac surgeons in the heart surgery suite. It also provides Impella 5.0 and Impella LD, which are percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors for use primarily in the heart surgery suite; and Impella RP, a percutaneous catheter-based axial flow pump. In addition, the company engages in the development of Impella 5.5 and Impella BTR that are percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors; and Impella ECP pump that is designed for blood flow of greater than three liters per minute. It sells its products through direct sales and clinical support personnel in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in ABIOMED, Inc. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. It is quite rare for any company to receive a Good rating in all of my measurements above, this company is currently one of the best out there, in my opinion

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 ABIOMED, 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: $230.66
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.43
  • P/E: 52
  • Future EPS Calc: $11.02
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $573.2
  • Target stock price: $355.91

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

By:
On:
In: Good company, Stock analysis
Tagged:
With: 0 Comments

 

Company name Apple Inc.
Stock ticker AAPL
Live stock price [stckqut]AAPL[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $460.14
Target stock price (averages with growth) $442.17
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $360.25
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $381.37

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/aapl

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide. It also sells various related services. The company offers iPhone, a line of smartphones; Mac, a line of personal computers; iPad, a line of multi-purpose tablets; and wearables, home, and accessories comprising AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats products, HomePod, iPod touch, and other Apple-branded and third-party accessories. It also provides digital content stores and streaming services; AppleCare support services; and iCloud, a cloud service, which stores music, photos, contacts, calendars, mail, documents, and others. In addition, the company offers various service, such as Apple Arcade, a game subscription service; Apple Card, a co-branded credit card; Apple News+, a subscription news and magazine service; and Apple Pay, a cashless payment service, as well as licenses its intellectual property, and provides other related services. The company serves consumers, and small and mid-sized businesses; and the education, enterprise, and government markets. It sells and delivers third-party applications for its products through the App Store, Mac App Store, and Watch App Store. The company also sells its products through its retail and online stores, and direct sales force; and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and resellers. Apple Inc. has a collaboration with Google to develop COVID-19 tracking system for Android and iOS devices. Apple Inc. was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Apple Inc. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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 Apple 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: $323.34
  • Growth: 0.14
  • Current EPS (TTM): $12.76
  • P/E: 6
  • Future EPS Calc: $24.56
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $147.4
  • Target stock price: $91.52

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

By:
On:
In: Content for book owners, Daily Indicators
With: 0 Comments
Stock ticker Stock name Last Close Recommendation
AAPL Apple Inc. $321.8500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $226.1400 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $389.6800 Strong Buy or Hold
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $250.5500 Strong Buy or Hold
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $55.6850 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $2471.0400 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
ANET Arista Networks Inc $234.6400 Strong Buy or Hold
ATHM Autohome Inc $77.1400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AVGO Broadcom Inc $289.9900 Strong Buy or Hold
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd $206.5700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
BKNG Booking Holdings Inc $1670.7300 Strong Buy or Hold
CBPO China Biologic Products Holdings Inc $109.6600 Strong Buy or Hold
COHR Coherent, Inc. $146.2300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. $57.8200 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $383.5800 Strong Buy or Hold
ETFC E*TRADE Financial Corp $45.9700 Strong Buy or Hold
EPAM EPAM Systems Inc $233.8600 Strong Buy or Hold
EVR Evercore Inc $55.8800 Strong Buy or Hold
FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock $231.9100 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
FIVE Five Below Inc $102.7300 Strong Buy or Hold
FTNT Fortinet Inc $144.7500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A $1434.8700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $14.3000 Strong Buy or Hold
HZO MarineMax Inc $19.1900 Strong Buy or Hold
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $365.4100 Strong Buy or Hold
JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC $119.3700 Strong Buy or Hold
KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc $40.6600 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
LGIH LGI Homes Inc $83.8400 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
LRCX Lam Research Corporation $270.9700 Strong Buy or Hold
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $308.6900 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
MA Mastercard Inc $301.4000 Strong Buy or Hold
MEOH Methanex Corporation $17.6400 Strong Buy or Hold
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. $104.1900 Strong Buy or Hold
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $519.7800 Strong Buy or Hold
MTZ MasTec, Inc. $40.7500 Strong Buy or Hold
MTCH Match Group Inc $91.7300 Strong Buy or Hold
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $425.9200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
NSP Insperity Inc $53.3700 Strong Buy or Hold
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $352.2500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc $85.9400 Strong Buy or Hold
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. $52.2500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc $154.5300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $78.3200 Strong Buy or Hold
SINA SINA Corp $31.9300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SIVB SVB Financial Group $212.8100 Strong Buy or Hold
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A $173.2500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SUI Sun Communities Inc $140.8000 Strong Buy or Hold
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $119.1000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) $5.6000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
THRM Gentherm Inc $40.5600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc $99.7000 Strong Buy or Hold
TNET TriNet Group Inc $54.4700 Strong Buy or Hold
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $239.0900 Strong Buy or Hold
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc $305.9300 Strong Buy or Hold
V Visa Inc $194.3500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon