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I haven’t done the analysis on i2 Technologies or JDA Software Group to find out if they are a Good, Fair or Poor company.  I don’t have to since they just merged and since the merger is great than 10% of both companies, they violate the Confident Investor first rule regarding mergers or divestitures – never invest in a company that changes its size more than 10% with a merger or divestiture.

While the merger may be logical and offer great value to the company and its customers, a merger of this size simply is too difficult to do well. A Confident Investor cannot confidently invest in the resulting company until things settle down a bit.

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Company name Jagged Peak Inc
Stock ticker JGPK
Live stock price [stckqut]JGPK[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable.

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Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the market being overpriced. This really doesn’t matter to a Confident Investor because we aren’t invested in the market, we are invested in individual companies and we watch them to make sure that the herd mentality of the market doesn’t move against us.

Even in bad economies, the Confident Investor Rating – Good companies should continue to be good companies to own. If they aren’t then they will quickly drop from the Good category to the Fair or Poor category!

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You cannot confidently buy a company that is not profitable. For this reason, companies like the Wendy’s Arby’s Group have traditionally not been available to a Confident Investor.  News that the company is now profitable means that we can start to look at it as another investment option.

http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2009/11/02/daily35.html

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Company name Intel Corporation
Stock ticker INTC
Live stock price [stckqut]INTC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Fair
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $15.39
Target stock price (averages with growth) $20.2
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $16.99
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $18.47

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.