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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $62.84
Target stock price (averages with growth) $79.24
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $57.95
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $62.08

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

Atwood Oceanics, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the international offshore drilling contractor engaged in the drilling and completion of exploratory and developmental oil and gas wells. As of September 30, 2011, the Company owned a fleet of 10 mobile offshore drilling units located in the United States Gulf of Mexico, South America, the Mediterranean Sea, West Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011 (fiscal 2011), it had a utilization rate of 95%. Its offshore drilling equipments include semisubmersible rigs, jack-up drilling rigs, semisubmersible tender assist rigs and submersible drilling rigs. It obtains the contracts, under which it operates its units either through individual negotiation with the customer or by submitting proposals in competition with other contractors. In October 2010, it entered into turnkey construction agreements with PPL Shipyard PTE LTD to construct two Pacific Class 400 jack-up drilling units.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I am taking the stock off of my Watch List although I may continue to hold a position in the stock as long as the price holds.

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Company name Baker Hughes Incorporated
Stock ticker BHI
Live stock price [stckqut]BHI[/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 Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $74.46
Target stock price (averages with growth) $123.99
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $107.51
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $68.13

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

Baker Hughes Incorporated (Baker Hughes) is engaged in the oilfield services industry. Baker Hughes is a supplier of oilfield services, products, technology and systems to the worldwide oil and natural gas industry. It also provides industrial and other products and services to the downstream refining, and the process and pipeline industries. The Company may conduct its operations through subsidiaries, affiliates, ventures and alliances. It operates in more than 80 countries worldwide. The Company operates in five segments. Four of these segments represent its oilfield operations and their geographic organization: North America (U.S. Land, Gulf of Mexico and Canada), Latin America, Europe/Africa/Russia Caspian and Middle East/Asia Pacific. Its Industrial Services and Other segment includes downstream chemicals, process and pipeline services, and the reservoir development services group.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I would not be surprised that if I analyze this company in 9 months, it would rate as Good.  It was really close to making it.

 

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Company name Ingram Micro Inc.
Stock ticker IM
Live stock price [stckqut]IM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $7.86
Target stock price (averages with growth) $15.78
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $21.55
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $11.62

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

Ingram Micro Inc. (Ingram Micro) is a global information technology (IT) wholesale distributor, providing sales, marketing and logistics services for the IT industry worldwide. Ingram Micro distributes and markets technology products worldwide from the industry’s computer hardware suppliers, networking equipment suppliers, software publishers, and other suppliers of computer peripherals, consumer electronics (CE), physical security, automatic identification and data capture (AIDC)/point-of-sale (POS) and mobility hardware worldwide. It offers a variety of systems, such as rack, tower and blade servers, desktops, portable personal computers, and personal digital assistants (PDAs). During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company acquired assets and liabilities of Arete Sistemas S.A. (Arete).

 

Confident Investor comments: I may be a little generous on the $17 target but at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock 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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Company name Fastenal Company
Stock ticker FAST
Live stock price [stckqut]FAST[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $47.18
Target stock price (averages with growth) $64.29
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $50.51
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $46.92

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

Fastenal Company is engaged in selling industrial and construction supplies in a wholesale and retail fashion. The industrial and construction supplies are grouped into eleven product lines. The Company distributes the supplies through a network of approximately 2,600 company owned stores. Most of its customers are in the manufacturing and non-residential construction markets. The manufacturing market includes both original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and maintenance and repair operations (MRO). The non-residential construction market includes general, electrical, plumbing, sheet metal, and road contractors. Other users of its product include farmers, truckers, railroads, mining companies, federal, state, and local governmental entities, schools, and certain retail trades. Geographically, its stores and customers are primarily located in North America. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had 2,585 store locations.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock 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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Company name National Research Corporation
Stock ticker NRCI
Live stock price [stckqut]NRCI[/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 Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $63.23
Target stock price (averages with growth) $71.96
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $51.31
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $57.73

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

National Research Corporation (NRC) is a provider of performance measurement and improvement services, healthcare analytics and governance education to the healthcare industry in the United States and Canada. The Company’s portfolio of services addresses the needs of healthcare organizations to measure and improve satisfaction, outcomes relative to the services that they provide. The Company’s services include data collection, healthcare analytics, practice identification and delivery of value-added business intelligence that enables its clients to improve performance across key business metrics. NRC also provides healthcare information services to organizations across a range of service delivery segments. The Company has seven operating segments aggregated into one. These include NRC Picker U.S., NRC Picker Canada, Ticker, Payer Solutions, the Governance Institute (TGI), My InnerView (MIV) and Illuminate.

 

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