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Company name Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc
Stock ticker REGN
Live stock price [stckqut]REGN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $903.84
Target stock price (averages with growth) $999.54
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $454.52
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $900.61

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

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an integrated biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. The Company commercializes medicines for eye diseases, colorectal cancer, and a rare inflammatory condition and has product candidates under development in other areas, including hypercholesterolemia, oncology, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), asthma and atopic dermatitis. The Company’s marketed products include EYLEA (aflibercept) injection, ZALTRAP (ziv-aflibercept) injection for intravenous infusion and ARCALYST (rilonacept) injection for subcutaneous use. The Company has 17 product candidates in clinical development. Its product candidates consist of two trap-based clinical programs and 15 human monoclonal antibody product candidates. The Company has generated each of the antibodies using its VelocImmune technology.

 

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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: $585.2
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.02
  • P/E: 145
  • Future EPS Calc: $10
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $1450.44
  • Target stock price: $900.61

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Company name Priceline Group Inc
Stock ticker PCLN
Live stock price [stckqut]PCLN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $1884.84
Target stock price (averages with growth) $2031.84
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $922.78
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $1764.84

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

The Priceline Group Inc. is a provider of online travel and travel related reservation and search services. The Company, through its online travel agent (OTA) services, connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. The Company’s brands include Booking.com, KAYAK, agoda.com, rentalcars.com and OpenTable. The Company offers consumers accommodation reservations, including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties, through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands. Its priceline.com brand also offers consumers reservations for rental cars, airline tickets, vacation packages and cruises. The Company offers rental car reservations through its Website rentalcars.com. The Company also provides an online price comparison service from various travel Websites through KAYAK. OpenTable provides its services to consumers and reservation management services to restaurants.

 

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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: $1219.97
  • Growth: 0.19
  • Current EPS (TTM): $45.81
  • P/E: 26
  • Future EPS Calc: $109.31
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $2842.29
  • Target stock price: $1764.83

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $164.06
Target stock price (averages with growth) $181.69
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $82.92
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $163.84

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

Netflix, Inc. is a provider of Internet television network. The Company has over 57 million streaming members in over 50 countries. Its members can watch more than two billion hours of television (TV) shows and movies per month, including original series, documentaries and feature films on Internet-connected screen. The Company has three operating segments: Domestic streaming, International streaming and Domestic DVD. The Domestic and International streaming segments derive revenues from monthly membership fees for services consisting of streaming content. The Domestic DVD segment derives revenues from monthly membership fees for services consisting of DVD-by-mail. Its members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. Additionally, in the United States, its members can receive DVDs to their homes. The Company offers streaming service both domestically and internationally.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Netflix, Inc.

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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: $107.34
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.44
  • P/E: 241
  • Future EPS Calc: $1.09
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $263.86
  • Target stock price: $163.83

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $90.67
Target stock price (averages with growth) $76.6
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $36.24
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $72.61

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

Merck & Co., Inc. is a global health care company. The Company offers health solutions through its prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products, which it markets directly and through its joint ventures. The Company’s Pharmaceutical segment includes human health pharmaceutical and vaccine products marketed either directly by the Company or through joint ventures. Human health pharmaceutical products consist of therapeutic and preventive agents, generally sold by prescription, for the treatment of human disorders. The Company sells these human health pharmaceutical products primarily to drug wholesalers and retailers, hospitals, government agencies and managed health care providers. The Animal Health segment discovers, develops, manufactures and markets animal health products, including vaccines. The Company’s animal health products are sold to veterinarians, distributors and animal producers.

 

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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: $58.63
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.42
  • P/E: 17
  • Future EPS Calc: $6.87
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $116.94
  • Target stock price: $72.61

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Company name Monster Beverage 1990 Corp
Stock ticker MNST
Live stock price [stckqut]MNST[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $189.95
Target stock price (averages with growth) $216.72
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $102.08
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $188.57

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

Monster Beverage Corporation is a holding company. The Company develops, markets, sells and distributes alternative beverage category beverages under the brand names, which include Monster Energy, Hansen’s, Monster Rehab, Hansen’s Natural Cane Soda, Monster Energy Extra Strength Nitrous Technology, Junior Juice, Peace Tea and Juice Monster, among others. The Company operates through two segments: Direct Store Delivery (DSD) and Warehouse. The DSD segment develops, markets and sells products through a distributor network. The Company’s DSD segment consists of energy drinks, which include Monster Energy Brand Energy Drinks, Java Monster Coffee + Energy Drinks, Muscle Monster Energy Shakes, Monster Energy Extra Strength Nitrous Technology Energy Drinks, Monster Rehab Tea + Energy Drinks and Peace Tea Iced Teas and Juice Drinks. The Warehouse segment develops, markets and sells products directly to retailers. The Company’s Warehouse segment consists of juice-based and soda beverages.

 

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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: $133.53
  • Growth: 0.18
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.25
  • P/E: 59
  • Future EPS Calc: $5.14
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $303.69
  • Target stock price: $188.57

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