Company name Calavo Growers, Inc.
Stock ticker CVGW
Live stock price [stckqut]CVGW[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $142.33
Target stock price (averages with growth) $108.96
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $108.96
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $115.7

 

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

Calavo Growers, Inc., incorporated on January 5, 2001, operates in the avocado industry. The Company provides value-added fresh food. The Company distributes its products both domestically and internationally. It operates in three business segments: Fresh products, Calavo Foods and Renaissance Food Group, LLC (RFG). The Company is engaged in marketing and distributing avocados, prepared avocados and other perishable foods, which allows it to deliver an array of fresh and prepared food products to food distributors, produce wholesalers, supermarkets, convenience stores, and restaurants on a worldwide basis. The Company procures avocados principally from California and Mexico. Through its various operating facilities, the Company sorts, packs, and/or ripens avocados, tomatoes and/or Hawaiian grown papayas; processes and packages fresh cut fruit and vegetables, salads, wraps, sandwiches, fresh snacking products and a range of behind-the-glass deli items, and produces and packages guacamole and salsa.

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Calavo Growers, Inc. as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. 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 Calavo Growers, 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: $92.32
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.93
  • P/E: 48
  • Future EPS Calc: $3.88
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $186.33
  • Target stock price: $115.69

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $41.38
Target stock price (averages with growth) $44.41
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $44.41
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $41.54

 

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

Cirrus Logic, Inc., incorporated on August 26, 1998, is engaged in providing integrated circuits (ICs) for audio and voice signal processing applications. The Company develops analog and mixed-signal ICs for a range of customers. The Company offers two product lines: Portable Audio, and Non-Portable Audio and Other. The Company’s products span the entire audio signal chain, from capture to playback, providing products for a range of smartphones, tablets, digital headsets, wearables and smart home applications. The Company’s primary facility housing engineering, sales and marketing, and administration functions is located in Austin, Texas. The Company offers products through both direct and indirect sales channels across the world.

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Cirrus Logic, Inc. as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. 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 Cirrus Logic, 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: $38.05
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.46
  • P/E: 26
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.57
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $66.89
  • Target stock price: $41.53

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Company name Criteo SA
Stock ticker CRTO
Live stock price [stckqut]CRTO[/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) $29.65
Target stock price (averages with growth) $17.16
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $17.16
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $20.56

 

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

Criteo S.A., incorporated on October 19, 2005, is a global technology company specializing in digital performance marketing. The Company’s solution consists of the Criteo Engine, the Company’s data assets, access to inventory, and its advertiser and publisher platforms. The Criteo Engine consists of various machine learning algorithms, such as prediction, recommendation, bidding and creative algorithms and the global hardware and software infrastructure. The Company operates in approximately 90 countries through a network of over 30 international offices located in Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region. The Criteo Engine delivers advertisements through multiple marketing channels and formats, including display advertising banners, native advertising banners and marketing messages delivered to opt-in e-mail addresses. Advertisements are delivered on all devices and screens, including Web browsers on desktops and laptops, mobile Web browsers on smartphones and tablets, as well as mobile applications.

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Criteo SA as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I am removing Criteo from my Watch List as there are better companies for me to invest in.

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 Criteo SA 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: $19.17
  • Growth: 0.11
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.31
  • P/E: 15
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.2
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $33.11
  • Target stock price: $20.55

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Company name Amazon.com, Inc.
Stock ticker AMZN
Live stock price [stckqut]AMZN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

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) $2837.24
Target stock price (averages with growth) $2837.24
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $2837.24
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $2851.69

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

Amazon.com, Inc., incorporated on May 28, 1996, offers a range of products and services through its Websites. The Company operates through three segments: North America, International and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Company’s products include merchandise and content that it purchases for resale from vendors and those offered by third-party sellers. It also manufactures and sells electronic devices. The Company, through its subsidiary, Whole Foods Market, Inc., offers healthy and organic food and staples across its stores. The Company also offers a range of products like whole trade bananas, organic avocados, organic large brown eggs, organic responsibly-farmed salmon and tilapia, organic baby kale and baby lettuce, animal-welfare-rated 85% lean ground beef, creamy and crunchy almond butter, organic gala and fuji apples, organic rotisserie chicken.

The Company’s Whole Foods Market healthy and private label products include 365 Everyday Value, Whole Foods Market, Whole Paws and Whole Catch available through Amazon.com, AmazonFresh, Prime Pantry and Prime Now. The Company also offers Amazon Lockers that is available in select Whole Foods Market stores. Customers can have products shipped from www.Amazon.com to their local Whole Foods Market store for pick up or send returns back to Amazon during a trip to the store.

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Amazon.com, Inc. as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. 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 Amazon.com, 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: $1836.43
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $23.97
  • P/E: 77
  • Future EPS Calc: $59.64
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $4592.66
  • Target stock price: $2851.68

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Company name AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.
Stock ticker AMN
Live stock price [stckqut]AMN[/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) $67.84
Target stock price (averages with growth) $53.51
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $53.51
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $67.63

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

AMN Healthcare Services, Inc., incorporated on November 10, 1997, provides healthcare workforce solutions and staffing services at acute and sub-acute care hospitals and other healthcare facilities throughout the United States. The Company’s segments include nurse and allied solutions, locum tenens solutions and other workforce solutions. Through its suite of solutions, the Company provides technology, analytics and services to build and manage all or a portion of its clients’ healthcare workforce needs, from nurses, doctors and allied health professionals to healthcare leaders and executives, both on a temporary and permanent basis. It offers managed services programs (MSP), vendor management systems (VMS), predictive analytics, workforce optimization consulting, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), interim and executive leadership, and remote medical coding. It offers various services, including travel nurse staffing; rapid response nurse staffing and labor disruption services; local, or per diem, staffing; locum tenens staffing; allied staffing; physician permanent placement services, and health information management.

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. 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 AMN Healthcare Services, 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.
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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: $49.62
  • Growth: 0.17
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.76
  • P/E: 18
  • Future EPS Calc: $6.05
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $108.92
  • Target stock price: $67.63

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