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Company name Fossil, Inc.
Stock ticker FOSL
Live stock price [stckqut]FOSL[/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) $108.07
Target stock price (averages with growth) $147.9
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $109.03
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $106.64

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

Fossil, Inc. a global designer, marketer and distributer company that specializes in consumer fashion accessories. The Company’s offerings include a line of men’s and women’s fashion watches and jewelry, handbags, small leather goods, belts, sunglasses, shoes, soft accessories and clothing. Its products are distributed globally through a range of distribution channels, including wholesale in countries where it has a physical presence, direct to the consumer through its retail stores and commercial Websites and through third-party distributors in countries, where it does not maintain a physical presence. The Company operates in four segments: the North America Wholesale segment, the Europe Wholesale segment, Asia Pacific Wholesale segment and the Direct to Consumer segment. Effective April 2, 2012, it acquired Skagen Designs, Ltd. and certain of its international affiliates.

 

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Company name First Financial Bancorp
Stock ticker FFBC
Live stock price [stckqut]FFBC[/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) $25.25
Target stock price (averages with growth) $25.78
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $18.35
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $17.77

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

First Financial Bancorp (First Financial) is a bank holding company. First Financial is engaged in the business of commercial banking and other banking and banking-related activities through its wholly owned subsidiary, First Financial Bank, National Association (Bank). The range of banking services provided by First Financial to individuals and businesses includes commercial lending, real estate lending, and consumer financing. Effective September 1, 2011, First Financial’s wholly owned subsidiary, First Financial Capital Advisors LLC (FFCA) was dissolved. Its another subsidiary, First Financial (OH) Statutory Trust II (Statutory Trust II), was also dissolved during the year ended December 31,2011. On September 23, 2011, the Bank completed the purchase of 16 Ohio banking centers from Liberty Savings Bank. On December 2, 2011, First Financial Bank completed the purchase of 22 Indiana-based retail banking branches from Flagstar Bank.

 

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Company name Ebix Inc
Stock ticker EBIX
Live stock price [stckqut]EBIX[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $36.33
Target stock price (averages with growth) $49.87
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $34.25
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $36.99

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

Ebix, Inc. (Ebix) is an international supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry. Ebix provides a series of application software products for the insurance industry ranging from carrier systems, agency systems and exchanges to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance and financial industries. As of December 31, 2011, approximately 77% of Ebix revenues came from on-demand insurance Exchanges. On February 7, 2011 Ebix merged with ADAM, Inc. (ADAM) with a wholly owned subsidiary of Ebix. On November 15, 2011, Ebix acquired Health Connect Systems, Inc. (Health Connect). On June 8, 2012, the Company acquired PlanetSoft, Inc. In June 2012, the Company acquired Fintechnix. In August 2012, the Company acquired TriSystems Ltd., a online insurance trading hub that facilitates commercial insurance and reinsurance transactions between London intermediaries and insurance companies.

 

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Company name eBay Inc
Stock ticker EBAY
Live stock price [stckqut]EBAY[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $74.46
Target stock price (averages with growth) $109.25
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $96.04
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $65.96

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

eBay Inc. (eBay) is a global commerce platform. The Company enables commerce through three reportable segments: Marketplaces, Payments and GSI Commerce (GSI). These segments provide online platform, services and tools to help individuals and small, medium and large merchants globally to establish online and mobile commerce and payments. In addition, through X.commerce, it has created an open source platform, which provides software developers and merchants access to its applications programming interfaces (APIs), to develop software and solutions for commerce. As of December 31, 2011, it had more than 100 million active users transacting on its sites, millions of merchants using one or more of its platforms, and a developer community with more than 800,000 members using its APIs. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company acquired Brands4friends and GittiGidiyor. In May 2012, PRIMEDIA announced that it completed the acquisition of eBay’s Rent.com subsidiary.

 

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Company name Deckers Outdoor Corp
Stock ticker DECK
Live stock price [stckqut]DECK[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $30.52
Target stock price (averages with growth) $45.49
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $48.26
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $32.48

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

Deckers Outdoor Corporation (Deckers) is a designer, producer, marketer, and brand manager of footwear, apparel, and accessories. Deckers markets its products under three brands: UGG, Teva and Sanuk. The Company sells its products, including accessories, such as handbags and outerwear, through domestic and international retailers, international distributors, and directly to consumers both domestically and internationally, through its Websites, call centers, retail concept stores and retail outlet stores. In addition to the Company’s primary brands, Deckers’ other brands include TSUBO, a line of casual footwear that incorporates style, function, and maximum comfort; Ahnu, a line of outdoor performance and lifestyle footwear, and MOZO, a line of footwear that combines running shoe technology with work shoe toughness for individuals that spend long hours working on their feet. On July 1, 2011, it completed the acquisition of the purchased assets of the Sanuk brand.

 

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.