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Company name JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Stock ticker JPM
Live stock price [stckqut]JPM[/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) $215.16
Target stock price (averages with growth) $184.93
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $108.68
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $50.62

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

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) is a financial holding company. JPMorgan Chase’s principal bank subsidiaries are JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), a national bank with United States branches in 23 states, and Chase Bank USA, National Association (Chase Bank USA, N.A.), a national bank that is the Firm’s credit card-issuing bank. JPMorgan Chase’s principal nonbank subsidiary is J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (JPMorgan Securities), the Firm�s United States investment banking firm. The bank and nonbank subsidiaries of JPMorgan Chase operate nationally, as well as through overseas branches and subsidiaries, representative offices and subsidiary foreign banks. The Company’s activities are organized into six business segments: Investment Bank, Retail Financial Services (RFS), Card Services (CS), Commercial Banking (CB), Treasury & Securities Services (TSS) and Asset Management (AM).

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Company name Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Stock ticker ISRG
Live stock price [stckqut]ISRG[/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) $642.31
Target stock price (averages with growth) $874.32
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $614.33
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $644.1

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

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Intuitive Surgical) designs, manufactures and market da Vinci Surgical Systems, which are advanced surgical systems.The Company’s principal products include three models of da Vinci Surgical System: da Vinci Si Surgical System, da Vinci S Surgical System and standard da Vinci Surgical System, along with a variety of EndoWrist instruments and accessories. The da Vinci Surgical System is used to perform surgery across multiple surgical specialties, including urology, gynecology, cardiothoracic surgery, transoral surgery, and general surgery. As of December 31, 2010, the Company had an installed base of 1,752 da Vinci Surgical Systems. During the year ended December 31, 2010, the Company introduced da Vinci Si-e systems and da Vinci Si Surgical System. During 2010, it sold nine da Vinci Si-e systems. The da Vinci Surgical System consists of a surgeon�s console, or consoles, a patient-side cart and vision system.

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Company name Image Sensing Systems, Inc.
Stock ticker ISNS
Live stock price [stckqut]ISNS[/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) $10.48
Target stock price (averages with growth) $13.93
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $9.56
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $10.71

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

Image Sensing Systems, Inc. develops and markets video and radar image processing products for use in traffic applications, such as intersection control, highway, bridge and tunnel traffic management and traffic data collection. The Company provides software-based, computer-enabled detection (CED) products and solutions for the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) industry. Its family of products is marketed as Autoscope and RTMS. The Company’s technology analyzes signals from sensors and transmits the information to management systems and controllers or directly to users. In June 2010, the Company acquired CitySync Limited.

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Company name IBERIABANK Corporation
Stock ticker IBKC
Live stock price [stckqut]IBKC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Fair
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $78.57
Target stock price (averages with growth) $81.72
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $49.95
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $69.84

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

IBERIABANK Corporation (IBKC) is a financial holding company. The Company operates in three segment levels: IBERIABANK, IBERIABANK fsb, and Lenders Title Company (Lenders Title). As of December 31, 2010, the Company had 226 combined offices, including 145 bank branch offices in Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas, 27 title insurance offices in Arkansas and Louisiana, and mortgage representatives in 54 locations in 12 states. On July 23, 2010, IBERIABANK acquired certain assets of Sterling Bank, including its loan portfolio, and assumed deposits and other liabilities of Sterling Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), as receiver. On December 31, 2010, IBERIABANK fsb, its federal savings bank subsidiary was merged with and into IBERIABANK. On May 31, 2011, the Company acquired OMNI BANCSHARES, Inc. On May 31, 2011, the Company acquired Cameron Bancshares, Inc.

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Company name HMS Holdings Corp.
Stock ticker HMSY
Live stock price [stckqut]HMSY[/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) $41.35
Target stock price (averages with growth) $54.06
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $34.52
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $44.47

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

HMS Holdings Corp. (HMS) provides a variety of cost containment, coordination of benefits and program integrity services for government and private healthcare payors and sponsors. The Company’s clients are state Medicaid agencies, government-sponsored managed care plans, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), child support agencies, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), commercial plans, self-funded employer plans and other healthcare payors. In September 2010, the Company acquired Chapman Kelly, Inc. In June 2010, it acquired privately-held Allied Management Group, Special Investigation Unit (AMG-SIU). Coordination of benefits services route claims already paid by a government program to the liable third party, which then reimburses the government payer.

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