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Company name Gentherm Inc
Stock ticker THRM
Live stock price [stckqut]THRM[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $61.28
Target stock price (averages with growth) $90.22
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $61.28
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $61.46

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

Gentherm Incorporated (Gentherm), incorporated on March 23, 2005, is a global technology company engaged in the design, development, and manufacturing of thermal management technologies. The Company has two segments: Automotive and Industrial. Its products provide solutions for automotive passenger comfort and convenience, battery thermal management, remote power generation, patient temperature management, environmental product testing and other consumer and industrial temperature control needs. Its automotive products can be found on the vehicles of nearly all major automotive manufacturers operating in North America, Europe, and Asia. It operates in locations aligned with its customers’ product strategies in order to provide locally enhanced design, integration, and production capabilities and to identify future thermal technology product opportunities in both automotive and other markets. Its expertise in thermal management is focused on two general areas: managing the thermal conditions of people and objects and managing the thermal energy conversion to electrical energy.

 

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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: $39.55
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.17
  • P/E: 34
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.91
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $98.98
  • Target stock price: $61.46

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Company name Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR)
Stock ticker TGS
Live stock price [stckqut]TGS[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $18.44
Target stock price (averages with growth) $27.15
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $18.44
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $18.17

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

Transportadora de Gas del Sur S.A., incorporated on December 1, 1992, is engaged in the transportation of natural gas and production and commercialization of natural gas liquids (Liquids). The Company operates through four segments: Natural Gas Transportation Services, Liquids Production and Commercialization, Other Services and Telecommunications. The Company’s pipeline system connects gas fields in southern and western Argentina with gas distributors and industries in those areas and in the greater Buenos Aires area. It also provides midstream services, which consist of gas treatment, removal of impurities from the natural gas stream, gas compression, wellhead gas gathering and pipeline construction, operation and maintenance services. The Company transports gas through approximately 5,675 miles of pipeline, of which it owns 4,745 miles. It operates the remaining 930 miles, which are owned by the Gas Trusts. The Company operates the General Cerri natural gas processing complex and the associated Galvan loading and storage facility in Bahia Blanca in the Buenos Aires Province where Liquids are separated from natural gas transported through its pipeline system and stored for delivery.

 

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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: $11.96
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.84
  • P/E: 14
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.09
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $29.26
  • Target stock price: $18.16

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Company name Skyworks Solutions Inc
Stock ticker SWKS
Live stock price [stckqut]SWKS[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $114.89
Target stock price (averages with growth) $153.87
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $117.57
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $122.09

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

Skyworks Solutions Inc., incorporated on June 10, 2002, designs, develops, manufactures and markets semiconductor products, including intellectual property. The Company’s analog semiconductors connect people, places, and things, spanning various unimagined applications within the automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet and wearable markets. The Company’s geographical segments include the United States, Other Americas, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Other Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. The Company operates throughout the world with engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. The Company is engaged with key original equipment manufacturers (OEM), smartphone providers and baseband reference design partners. The Company’s plants are located in Mexico, Singapore, the United States, Japan, and Rest of world. The Company offers its technology from the smartphones to the factory floor to hospitals and medical providers to the automated home, connected car, and wearables. Skyworks is enabling opportunities with solutions supporting a set of wireless protocols, including cellular long-term evolution (LTE), wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, Zigbee and emerging fifth generation (5G) standards.

The Company’s product portfolio consists of various solutions, including amplifiers, attenuators, circulators/isolators, direct current (DC/DC) converters, demodulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, diversity receive modules, filters, front-end modules, hybrid, light emitting diode (LED) drivers, low noise amplifiers, mixers, modulators, optocouplers/optoisolators, phase locked loops, phase shifters, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches, synthesizers, technical ceramics, voltage regulators and voltage controlled oscillators/synthesizers. Its Attenuators portfolio includes circuits that allow a known source of power to be reduced by a predetermined factor (usually expressed as decibels). Its Circulators/Isolators portfolio includes ferrite-based components found on the output of high-power amplifiers used to protect receivers in wireless transmission systems. Its DC/DC Converters portfolio includes an electronic circuit, which converts a source of direct current from one voltage level to another.

 

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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: $97.06
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.11
  • P/E: 16
  • Future EPS Calc: $12.28
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $196.63
  • Target stock price: $122.09

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Company name Sun Communities Inc
Stock ticker SUI
Live stock price [stckqut]SUI[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $150.8
Target stock price (averages with growth) $165.84
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $112.65
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $149.59

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

Sun Communities, Inc., incorporated on July 23, 1993, is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company is a fully integrated real estate company, which, together with its affiliates and predecessors, has been in the business of acquiring, operating, developing, and expanding manufactured housing (MH) and recreational vehicle (RV). As of December 31, 2016, it owned and operated or had an interest in a portfolio of properties located throughout the United States and Ontario, Canada, including 226 MH communities, 87 RV communities, and 28 properties containing both MH and RV sites. The Company operates through two segments: Real Property Operations and Home Sales and Rentals. The Real Property Operations segment owns, operates, or has an interest in a portfolio, and develops MH communities and RV communities throughout the United States and is in the business of acquiring, operating, and expanding MH and RV communities. The Home Sales and Rentals segment offers MH and RV park model sales and leasing services to tenants and prospective tenants of its communities.

As of December 31, 2016, the Company owned, operated or had an interest in a portfolio of 341 properties in 29 states and Ontario, Canada, including 226 MH communities, 87 RV communities, and 28 Properties containing both MH and RV sites. As of December 31, 2016, the Properties contained an aggregate of 117,376 developed sites consisted of 80,166 developed MH sites, 20,916 annual RV sites (inclusive of both annual and seasonal usage rights), and 16,294 transient RV sites. There are approximately 10,616 additional MH and RV sites suitable for development.

 

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

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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: $97.77
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.94
  • P/E: 103
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.33
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $240.91
  • Target stock price: $149.59

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Company name Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A
Stock ticker STZ
Live stock price [stckqut]STZ[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $333.56
Target stock price (averages with growth) $420.88
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $285.89
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $307.56

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

Constellation Brands, Inc., incorporated on December 4, 1972, is an international beverage alcohol company. The Company is a producer and marketer of beer, wine, and spirits with operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and Italy. The Company’s segments include Beer, Wine and Spirits, and Corporate Operations and Other. The Company’s wine portfolio is complemented by select spirits brands and other select beverage alcohol products. It is a multi-category supplier (beer, wine, and spirits) of beverage alcohol in the United States.

The Company owns principal facilities, including the Nava Brewery in Nava, Coahuila, Mexico; the glass production plant in Nava, Coahuila, Mexico; wineries in California, which include the Woodbridge Winery in Acampo and the Mission Bell winery in Madera; the Canandaigua winery in Canandaigua, New York, and the distillery in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. It operates over four facilities in the San Diego, California area that produce its Ballast Point brand, including Miramar, which serves as the primary production site for the brand. In the United States, the Company operates over 20 wineries using varieties of grapes grown in the Napa, Sonoma, Monterey and San Joaquin regions of California. It also operates over four wineries in New Zealand and approximately five wineries in Italy. The Company’s Canadian whisky requirements are produced and aged at its Canadian distillery in Lethbridge, Alberta.

 

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

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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: $215.91
  • Growth: 0.18
  • Current EPS (TTM): $10.31
  • P/E: 21
  • Future EPS Calc: $23.58
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $495.32
  • Target stock price: $307.55

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