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Company name Mercantile Bank Corp.
Stock ticker MBWM
Live stock price [stckqut]MBWM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $20.17
Target stock price (averages with growth) $22.85
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $19.06
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $19.89

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

Mercantile Bank Corporation is a bank holding company. The Company owns Mercantile Bank of Michigan (the Bank). The Bank is a state banking company. The bank, through its seven offices, provides commercial banking services primarily to small-to medium-sized businesses and retail banking services in and around the Grand Rapids, Holland and Lansing areas. The Bank makes secured and unsecured commercial, construction, mortgage and consumer loans, and accepts checking, savings and time deposits. The Bank owns seven automated teller machines (ATM). It also enables customers to conduct certain loan and deposit transactions by telephone and personal computer. Courier service is provided to certain commercial customers, and safe deposit facilities are available at each of its office locations. Effective June 1, 2014, Mercantile Bank Corporation and Firstbank Corp completed their merger and the combined company to operate as Mercantile Bank Corporation.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Mercantile Bank Corp. 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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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: $19.74
  • Growth: 0.1
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.53
  • P/E: 13
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.46
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $32.03
  • Target stock price: $19.89

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $36.05
Target stock price (averages with growth) $194.8
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $303.68
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $27.93

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

CA, Inc. (CA) is an independent enterprise information technology (IT) management software and solutions company. CA develops and delivers software and services. The Company operates in three segments: Mainframe Solutions, Enterprise Solutions and Services. The Company addresses components of the computing environment, including people, information, processes, systems, networks, applications and databases, across hardware and software platforms and programs. It offers a portfolio of software solutions, including mainframe; service assurance; security (identity and access management); service and portfolio management, and virtualization and service automation. It delivers its products on-premises or, for certain products, using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In June 2013, the Company announced it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Layer 7 Technologies.

 

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

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.

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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: $29.49
  • Growth: 0.09
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.72
  • P/E: 17
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.64
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $44.98
  • Target stock price: $27.93

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Company name Helen of Troy Limited
Stock ticker HELE
Live stock price [stckqut]HELE[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Fair

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $65.39
Target stock price (averages with growth) $54.41
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $36.77
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $59.71

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

Helen of Troy Limited is a global designer, developer, importer, and distributor of an expanding portfolio of brand-name consumer products. The Company operates in three segments: Personal Care, Housewares and Healthcare / Home Environment. Its Personal Care segment’s products include electric hair care, beauty care and wellness appliances; grooming tools and accessories; and liquid, solid- and powder-based personal care and grooming products. Its Housewares segment provides a broad range of consumer products for the home. Product offerings include food preparation and storage, cleaning, organization, and baby and toddler care products. The Healthcare / Home Environment segment focuses on health care devices. In July 2014, Helen of Troy Ltd acquired Healthy Directions, LLC and its subsidiaries (Healthy Directions), as well as other health products sold directly to consumers.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Helen of Troy Limited as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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 Helen of Troy Limited 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: $54.49
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.77
  • P/E: 19.7
  • Future EPS Calc: $4.88
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $96.16
  • Target stock price: $59.71

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Company name EMC Corporation
Stock ticker EMC
Live stock price [stckqut]EMC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $25.15
Target stock price (averages with growth) $33.92
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $31.55
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $26.58

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

EMC Corporation (EMC), and its subsidiaries develop, deliver and support the Information Technology (IT) industry’s range of information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions and services. The Company manages its business in two broad categories: EMC Information Infrastructure and VMware Virtual Infrastructure. EMC Information Infrastructure provides a foundation for organizations to store, manage, protect, analyze and secure ever-increasing quantities of information, improve business agility, lower cost of ownership and enhance their competitive advantage within traditional data centers, virtual data centers and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Its EMC Information Infrastructure business consists of three segments: Information Storage, Information Intelligence and RSA Information Security. In July 2014, EMC acquired TwinStrata Inc, a Natick-based developer of cloud-integrated storage solutions.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in EMC Corporation as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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 EMC Corporation 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: $26.95
  • Growth: 0.101
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.26
  • P/E: 21
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.03
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $42.8
  • Target stock price: $26.58

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Company name Southwest Airlines Co
Stock ticker LUV
Live stock price [stckqut]LUV[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $42.14
Target stock price (averages with growth) $63.74
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $49.44
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $42.64

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

Southwest Airlines Co. operates Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways, passenger airlines that provide scheduled air transportation in the United States and near-international markets. As of December 31, 2012, the total fleet operated by Southwest and AirTran combined consisted of 694 aircraft, including 606 Boeing 737s and 88 Boeing 717s. Southwest principally provides point-to-point, rather than hub-and-spoke, service. AirTran principally provides hub-and-spoke, rather than point-to-point, service, with approximately half of AirTran’s flights originating or terminating at its base of operation in Atlanta, Georgia. AirTran also serves a number of markets with non-stop service from smaller bases of operation in Baltimore, Maryland; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Orlando, Florida. In December 2013, Southwest Airlines Co acquired 12 takeoff and landing slots at New York’s LaGuardia Airport being divested by American Airlines as part of its merger with US Airways.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Southwest Airlines Co as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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 Southwest Airlines Co 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: $27.17
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.2
  • P/E: 23
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.98
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $68.67
  • Target stock price: $42.64

I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]