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Company name Community Health Systems
Stock ticker CYH
Live stock price [stckqut]CYH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

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) $61.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $75.55
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $55.15
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $39.9

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

Community Health Systems, Inc. is an operator of hospitals in the United States. The Company provides healthcare services through the hospitals that it owns and operates in non-urban and selected urban markets throughout the United States. As of December 31, 2011, the Company owned or leased 131 hospitals, including four stand-alone rehabilitation or psychiatric hospitals. These hospitals are located across 29 states, with an aggregate of 19,695 licensed beds. The Company generates revenues by providing a range of general and specialized hospital healthcare services to patients in the communities in which it is located. Services provided by the Company’s hospitals include general acute care, emergency room, general and specialty surgery, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics, diagnostic, psychiatric and rehabilitation services. In July 2012, the Company’s subsidiaries acquired all of the assets of Memorial Health Systems in York, Pennsylvania.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. My only concern is that sales growth is starting to slow and if the company doesn’t reverse this trend, it could be in trouble. When sales drops, it is much harder to keep the other metrics growing.

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Company name Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR)
Stock ticker TEVA
Live stock price [stckqut]TEVA[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $39.04
Target stock price (averages with growth) $48.75
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $44.89
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $38.78

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

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (Teva) is a global pharmaceutical and drug company. It develops, produces and markets generic drugs in all treatment categories. The Company has a pharmaceutical business, whose principal products include Copaxone and Azilect. Teva’s active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) business provides vertical integration to Teva’s own pharmaceutical production. The Company’s global operations are conducted from North and Latin America to Europe and Asia. As December 31, 2010, it had direct operations in approximately 60 countries, including 40 finished dosage pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in 19 countries, 28 pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) centers and 21 API manufacturing sites. On October 14, 2011, it acquired Cephalon, Inc.

 

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

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Company name Baytex Energy Corp (USA)
Stock ticker BTE
Live stock price [stckqut]BTE[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

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) $72.44
Target stock price (averages with growth) $54.19
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $27.45
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $63.98

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

Baytex Energy Corp. (Baytex), through its subsidiaries, are engaged in the business of acquiring, developing, exploiting and holding interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and related assets in Canada (in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan) and in the United States (in the states of North Dakota and Wyoming). On February 3, 2011, the Company acquired heavy oil assets located in the Reno area of northern Alberta and the Lloydminster area of western Saskatchewan. On August 9, 2011, the Company acquired natural gas assets located in the Brewster area of west central Alberta. During the year ended December 31, 2011, it completed two dispositions of undeveloped lands; in the Kaybob South area of west central Alberta, it sold six sections of leasehold, including five sections with Duvernay rights, and in the Dodsland area in southwest Saskatchewan, which it sold 32,600 net acres of leasehold in the halo of the field.

 

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

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Company name Five Star Quality Care, Inc.
Stock ticker FVE
Live stock price [stckqut]FVE[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $9
Target stock price (averages with growth) $5.61
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $1.56
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $7.34

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

Five Star Quality Care, Inc. (Five Star), operates senior living communities, including independent living communities, assisted living communities and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). As of December 31, 2011, the Company operated 245 senior living communities located in 30 states containing 27,159 living units, including 207 primarily independent and assisted living communities with 23,736 living units and 38 SNFs with 3,423 living units. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company discontinued its operations on two SNFs owned and operated by it containing 271 living units and one assisted living community leased from Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH) and operated by it containing 103 living units. In 2011, the Company acquired from unrelated parties seven assisted living communities containing 854 living units with one located in Arizona and the other six located in Indiana, or the Indiana Communities. In September 2012, it sold its pharmacy business to Omnicare, Inc.

 

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, in fact the company ranks as a Good company, but there are some concerns with the price of the stock most notably it’s top line revenue growth. Even though this stock ranks as Good, I will not be adding it to my Watch List because of some of my concerns.

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Company name Yum! Brands, Inc.
Stock ticker YUM
Live stock price [stckqut]YUM[/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) $63.65
Target stock price (averages with growth) $76.67
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $63.62
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $71.15

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

Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) is a quick service restaurant company based on number of system units, with approximately 37,000 units in more than 120 countries and territories. The Company through its three concepts of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (the Concepts), develops, operates, franchises and licenses a worldwide system of restaurants, which prepare, package and sell a menu of priced food items. Units are operated by a Concept or by independent franchisees or licensees under the terms of franchise or license agreements. In addition, YUM owns non-controlling interests in Chinese entities who operate in a manner similar to KFC franchisees, as well as a non-controlling interest in Little Sheep Group Limited (Little Sheep). It operates in five segments: YUM Restaurants China, YUM Restaurants International, Taco Bell U.S., KFC U.S. and Pizza Hut U.S. In December 2011, it sold the Long John Silver’s and A&W All-American Food Restaurants brands. On February 1, 2012, it acquired Little Sheep.

 

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

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