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Company name Lululemon Athletica Inc
Stock ticker LULU
Live stock price [stckqut]LULU[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBITDA growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Poor
Income growth Good
Assets growth Good
Return on Assets growth Poor
Income / Rev growth Poor
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $457.4
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1106.33
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $1015.61
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $584.12

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/lulu/profile?p=lulu

lululemon athletica inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, distributes, and retails athletic apparel and accessories for women, men, and female youth. It operates through two segments, Company-Operated Stores and Direct to Consumer. The company offers pants, shorts, tops, and jackets for healthy lifestyle and athletic activities, such as yoga, running, and training, as well as other sweaty pursuits; and athletic wear for female youth. It also provides fitness-related accessories. The company sells its products through a chain of company-operated stores; outlets and warehouse sales; a network of wholesale accounts, such as yoga studios, health clubs, and fitness centers; temporary locations, including seasonal stores; and license and supply arrangements, as well as directly to consumer through mobile apps, and lululemon.com e-commerce site. As of February 2, 2020, it operated 491 company-operated stores under the lululemon and ivivva brands in the United States, Canada, the People’s Republic of China, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, France, Malaysia, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland. lululemon athletica inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Lululemon Athletica 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: $296.36
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.56278207584682
  • P/E: 57.6067306901619
  • Future EPS Calc: $16.33
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $940.73
  • Target stock price: $584.12

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Company name Lam Research Corporation
Stock ticker LRCX
Live stock price [stckqut]LRCX[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBITDA growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Fair
Income growth Good
Assets growth Good
Return on Assets growth Good
Income / Rev growth Good
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $439.4
Target stock price (averages with growth) $2616.54
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $1332.94
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $463.52

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/lrcx/profile?p=lrcx

Lam Research Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes, and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits worldwide. The company offers ALTUS systems to deposit conformal films for tungsten metallization applications; SABRE electrochemical deposition product for copper damascene manufacturing; SOLA ultraviolet thermal processing products for film treatment; SPEED gapfill high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) products; Striker single-wafer atomic layer deposition (ALD) products; and VECTOR plasma-enhanced CVD ALD products. It also provides Flex for dielectric etch applications; Kiyo for conductor etch applications; Syndion for through-silicon via etch applications; and Versys metal products for metal etch processes. In addition, the company offers Coronus bevel clean products to enhance die yield; Da Vinci, DV-Prime, EOS, and SP to address a range of wafer cleaning appplications; and Metryx mass metrology systems for high precision in-line mass measurement in semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Lam Research Corporation 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: $284.52
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $15
  • P/E: 20
  • Future EPS Calc: $37.32
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $746.49
  • Target stock price: $463.51

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Company name LGI Homes Inc
Stock ticker LGIH
Live stock price [stckqut]LGIH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBITDA growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Poor
Income growth Good
Assets growth Good
Return on Assets growth Poor
Income / Rev growth Poor
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $131.39
Target stock price (averages with growth) $299.19
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $273.87
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $191.85

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/lgih/profile?p=lgih

LGI Homes, Inc. designs, constructs, and sells homes in the United States. It offers entry-level homes, such as detached and attached homes, and move-up homes under the LGI Homes brand name; and luxury series homes under the Terrata Homes brand name. As of March 31, 2020, it owned 113 communities. The company serves in Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Colorado, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Tennessee, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Alabama, California, Oregon, Nevada, West Virginia, and Virginia. LGI Homes, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

 

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

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How was this analysis of LGI Homes 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: $85.05
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $13.6804103344674
  • P/E: 9.07638521659333
  • Future EPS Calc: $34.04
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $308.97
  • Target stock price: $191.84

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

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBITDA growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Fair
Income growth Good
Assets growth Good
Return on Assets growth Good
Income / Rev growth Good
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $527.79
Target stock price (averages with growth) $2001.95
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $1465.81
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $1104.05

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ilmn/profile?p=ilmn

Illumina, Inc. provides sequencing and array-based solutions for genetic and genomic analysis. Its products and services serve customers in a range of markets enabling the adoption of genomic solutions in research and clinical settings for applications in the life sciences, oncology, reproductive health, agriculture and other emerging segments. The company provides instruments and consumables used in genetic analysis; and genotyping and sequencing services, instrument service contracts, and development and licensing agreements. Its customers include genomic research centers, academic institutions, government laboratories, and hospitals, as well as pharmaceutical, biotechnology, commercial molecular diagnostic laboratories, and consumer genomics companies. The company markets and distributes its products directly to customers in North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as sells through life-science distributors in certain markets within Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Illumina, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

 

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

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How was this analysis of Illumina, 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: $341.61
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $13.8519184294722
  • P/E: 51.5864995015237
  • Future EPS Calc: $34.46
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $1778.08
  • Target stock price: $1104.05

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Company name Fortinet Inc
Stock ticker FTNT
Live stock price [stckqut]FTNT[/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
Price growth Good
R&D growth Good
Income growth Good
Assets growth Good
Return on Assets growth Good
Income / Rev growth Good
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $212.86
Target stock price (averages with growth) $78.93
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $148.48
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $133.51

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ftnt/profile?p=ftnt

Fortinet, Inc. provides broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions worldwide. It offers FortiGate hardware and software licenses that provide various security and networking functions, including firewall, intrusion prevention, anti-malware, virtual private network, application control, Web filtering, anti-spam, and wide area network (WAN) acceleration. The company also provides FortiSwitch product family that offers secure switching solutions for connecting customers end devices; FortiAP product family, which provides secure wireless networking solutions; FortiExtender appliance provides a WAN connection to its FortiGate products; FortiAnalyzer product family, which offers centralized network logging, analyzing, and reporting solutions; and FortiManager product family that provides central and scalable management solution for its FortiGate products. It offers FortiWeb product family provides web application firewall solutions; FortiMail product family that secure email gateway solutions; FortiSandbox technology that delivers proactive detection and mitigation services; and FortiSIEM family of software solutions, which offers a cloud-ready security information and event management solutions, as well as FortiToken and FortiAuthenticator product families for multi-factor authentication to safeguard systems, assets, and data; and FortiNAC product family to implement zero trust network access strategies. The company provides security subscription, technical support, professional, and training services. It sells its security solutions to channel partners and directly to various customers in telecommunications, technology, government, financial services, education, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare industries. Fortinet, Inc. provides its products and services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

 

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

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 Fortinet 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: $137.51
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.74
  • P/E: 49.6634203942172
  • Future EPS Calc: $4.32
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $215.02
  • Target stock price: $133.51

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