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Company name Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Stock ticker AMD
Live stock price [stckqut]AMD[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $11.75
Target stock price (averages with growth) $9.01
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $2.31
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $7.09

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=amd
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a global semiconductor company. The Company designs and sells microprocessors, chipsets and graphics processors. It offers x86 microprocessors, for the commercial and consumer markets, embedded microprocessors for commercial, commercial client and consumer markets and chipsets for desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), professional workstations and servers. The Company operates in three business segments: the Computing Solutions segment, which includes microprocessors, chipsets and embedded processors and related revenue; the Graphics segment, which includes graphics, video and multimedia products and related revenue, as well as revenue received in connection with the development and sale of game console systems that incorporate its graphics technology, and the Foundry segment, which includes operating results attributable to front end wafer manufacturing operations and related activities.


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 Barrick Gold Corporation (USA)
Stock ticker ABX
Live stock price [stckqut]ABX[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $0.58
Target stock price (averages with growth) $5.55
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $15.4
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $41.8

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=abx
Barrick Gold Corporation (Barrick) is engaged the production and sale of gold, as well as related activities, such as exploration and mine development. Barrick also produces copper, and hold interests in oil and gas properties located in Canada. Its producing mines are concentrated in four regional business units: North America, South America, Africa and Australia Pacific. In addition, it has a Capital Projects segment, distinct from its regional business units, to focus on managing projects. On September 17, 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of 50% interest in the Valhalla oil and gas field. On April 22, 2009, it completed the acquisition of the remaining 50% interest in the Williams and David Bell gold mines (Hemlo) in Canada from Teck Resources Ltd., thereby increasing its interest to 100%.


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. Jim Cramer interviewed the CEO of this company yesterday and Mr. Cramer seems rather bullish. While this company isn’t a terrible play in gold, this analysis shows that they aren’t incredibly well run and you may want to just stick with the gold ETF [stckqut]GLD[/stckqut] for your precious metal play. I cannot echo Mr. Cramer’s enthusiasm for this company.

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Company name Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
Stock ticker VAR
Live stock price [stckqut]VAR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $64.98
Target stock price (averages with growth) $86.97
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $73.19
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $68.31

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=var
Varian Medical Systems, Inc. is engaged in he design, manufacture, sale and service of equipment and software products for treating cancer with radiotherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery and brachytherapy. It also design, manufacture, sell and service x-ray tubes for original equipment manufacturers; replacement x-ray tubes, and flat panel digital image detectors for filmless x-ray imaging in medical, dental, veterinary, scientific and industrial applications. It designs, manufactures, sells and services linear accelerators, digital image detectors, image processing software and image detection products for security and inspection purposes. It also develops, designs, manufactures, sells and services proton therapy products and systems for cancer treatment. The Company?s products include Oncology Systems and X-ray Products. The Company has two other businesses and its Ginzton Technology Center (GTC) that it reports together under the Other category.


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 Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.
Stock ticker BBBY
Live stock price [stckqut]BBBY[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
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) $50.63
Target stock price (averages with growth) $67.91
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $58.25
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $50.16

“Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., along with its subsidiaries, is a chain of retail
stores, operating under the names Bed Bath & Beyond (BBB), Christmas Tree
Shops (CTS), Harmon and Harmon Face Values (Harmon) and buybuy BABY. In
addition, the Company is a partner in a joint venture, which operates two
stores in the Mexico City market under the name Home & More. The Company
sells an assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings, which
include food, giftware, health and beauty care items, and infant and toddler
merchandise. As of February 27, 2010, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. operated 1,100
stores located in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and
Canada, including 965 BBB stores operating in 49 states, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada; 61 CTS stores operating in 15 states; 45
Harmon stores operating in three states, and 29 buybuy BABY stores operating
in 14 states. ”

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 Deere & Company
Stock ticker DE
Live stock price [stckqut]DE[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $55.94
Target stock price (averages with growth) $63.14
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $53.64
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $59.53

“Deere & Company, together with its subsidiaries (John Deere) operates in
three business segments: agriculture and turf, construction and forestry and
credit. The agriculture and turf segment manufactures and distributes a line
of farm and turf equipment and related service parts including large, medium
and utility tractors; loaders; combines, cotton and sugarcane harvesters and
related front-end equipment and sugarcane loaders; tillage, seeding and
application equipment. The construction and forestry segment manufactures,
distributes to dealers and sells at retail a range of machines and service
parts used in construction, earthmoving, material handling and timber
harvesting. The credit segment primarily finances sales and leases by John
Deere dealers of new and used agriculture and turf equipment and
construction and forestry equipment. ”


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.