I think Keysight Technologies Inc ($KEYS) is a Possible Buy. It currently should be $122. Confident Investor Rating: Good
| Company name | Keysight Technologies Inc |
| Stock ticker | KEYS |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]KEYS[/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 |
| Market Capitalization 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) | $151.47 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $226.48 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $130.04 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $140.84 |
The following company description is from Stockrow: https://stockrow.com/KEYS
Keysight Technologies, Inc. provides electronic design and test solutions to commercial communications, networking, aerospace, defense and government, automotive, energy, semiconductor, electronic, and education industries in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions. Its Communications Solutions Group segment provides electronic design automation (EDA) software; and radio frequency and microwave test instruments; oscilloscopes, logic and serial protocol analyzers, logic-signal sources, arbitrary waveform generators, and bit error rate testers; optical modulation analyzers, optical component analyzers, optical power meters, and optical laser source solutions; and repair, calibration, and consulting services, as well as resells refurbished used Keysight equipment. The company’s Electronic Industrial Solutions Group segment offers design tools; design verification solutions; digital multi-meters, function generators, frequency counters, data acquisition systems, audio analyzers, LCR meters, thermal imagers, precision source measure units, ultra-high precision device current analyzers, and test executive software platforms, as well as various power supplies comprising AC/DC modular supplies and electronically programmable loads. This segment also provides printed-circuit-board-assembly testers, integrated circuit parametric testers, and sub-nano-meter positioning sub-assemblies; test and measurement products and software; and repair, calibration, and consulting services, as well as resells refurbished used Keysight equipment. Its Ixia Solutions Group segment offers software applications and services, including warranty and maintenance offerings, and hardware platforms. The company sells its products through direct sales force, distributors, resellers, and manufacturer’s representatives. It has partnership with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Rosa, California.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Keysight Technologies 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 Keysight Technologies 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: $98.13
- Growth: 0.151413882105943
- Current EPS (TTM): $3.59667
- P/E: 31.162655699453
- Future EPS Calc: $7.27
- Future Stock Price Calc: $226.82
- Target stock price: $140.84
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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.
