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Symbol Stock Price change today
FTNT Fortinet Inc 4.5059%
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc 3.5897%
AVGO Broadcom Inc 3.5572%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. 3.1561%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation 2.8668%
MA Mastercard Inc 2.6779%
AAPL Apple Inc. 2.6164%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated 2.4836%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. 2.4581%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. 2.3207%
LGIH LGI Homes Inc 2.2719%
FIVE Five Below Inc 2.1445%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A 1.8264%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. 1.6437%
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. 1.4508%
V Visa Inc 1.436%
MTZ MasTec, Inc. 1.4302%
SUI Sun Communities Inc 1.4119%
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc 1.2927%
THRM Gentherm Inc 1.1151%
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. 0.8294%
ETFC E*TRADE Financial Corp 0.8053%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. 0.525%
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.491%
NSP Insperity Inc 0.3825%
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. 0.2832%
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. 0.2305%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc 0.1806%
FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock 0.1801%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation 0%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. -0.1571%
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. -0.2326%
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc -0.2806%
EVR Evercore Inc -0.3117%
EPAM EPAM Systems Inc -0.4637%
ANET Arista Networks Inc -0.5229%
MTCH Match Group Inc -0.5432%
TNET TriNet Group Inc -0.6455%
MEOH Methanex Corporation -0.706%
LRCX Lam Research Corporation -0.9358%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. -0.9452%
JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC -1.0003%
KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc -1.5417%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. -2.248%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc -3.1575%
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) -4.7273%

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Stock ticker Stock name Last Close Recommendation
AAPL Apple Inc. $349.7200 Strong Buy or Hold
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $257.0900 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $428.0100 Strong Buy or Hold
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $260.9100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $60.9500 Strong Buy or Hold
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $2675.0100 Strong Buy or Hold
ANET Arista Networks Inc $218.0100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AVGO Broadcom Inc $302.7700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. $60.7500 Strong Buy or Hold
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $378.4100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ETFC E*TRADE Financial Corp $48.4300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
EPAM EPAM Systems Inc $252.3200 Strong Buy or Hold
EVR Evercore Inc $57.7500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock $238.7900 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
FIVE Five Below Inc $107.2500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
FTNT Fortinet Inc $136.7100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A $1424.6400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $14.2200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $368.7700 Strong Buy or Hold
JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC $113.9700 Some Concerns, may need to wait
KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc $42.1600 Strong Buy or Hold
LGIH LGI Homes Inc $87.5900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
LRCX Lam Research Corporation $315.2500 Strong Buy or Hold
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $297.3800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MA Mastercard Inc $296.5000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MEOH Methanex Corporation $19.8300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. $110.9300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $520.2800 Strong Buy or Hold
MTZ MasTec, Inc. $44.7500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MTCH Match Group Inc $95.7300 Strong Buy or Hold
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $453.7200 Strong Buy or Hold
NSP Insperity Inc $62.7500 Strong Buy or Hold
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $370.4500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc $86.2550 Very Concerned, may need to wait
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. $60.0200 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc $164.3600 Strong Buy or Hold
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $75.4000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SUI Sun Communities Inc $142.3600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $127.3500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) $5.5000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
THRM Gentherm Inc $39.4600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc $106.9000 Strong Buy or Hold
TNET TriNet Group Inc $58.8700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $212.1900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc $291.2400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
V Visa Inc $192.2000 Very Concerned, may need to wait

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I must caution you, I do not actually propose that you “buy and hold” any given stock, but rather you should “buy to hold” the stock. My investing technique teaches you to efficiently move your money to the stocks that are currently increasing in value the most. I use my Watch List for this work, these are Good Companies that I wait for great buying opportunities. This strategy is well described in my book, “The Confident Investor” and tends to be a very safe strategy in bear markets while typically still providing above market returns in a bull or flat market.

My Short Term Watch List are 15 companies that are hot right now. I select this list every quarter. I evenly divide a portion of my portfolio among these 15 companies. The next quarter, I add or delete companies as necessary and then re-balance the portfolio. This tends to be a more risky strategy because I don’t bail out on bad stock movement (at least until the end of the quarter). In a bull market or a flat market, these very well-run and high-performing companies tend to beat the general market by a significant margin.

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WATCH LIST STOCK RESULTS

 

Stock
Ticker		 Company
name		 Latest
price		 Year
ago		 Year ago
change		 Quarter
ago		 Quarter ago
change		 Month
ago		 Month ago
change		 Week
ago		 Week ago
change
AAPL Apple Inc. $349.72 $196.44 78.03% $228.64 52.96% $316.85 10.37% $338.80 3.22%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $257.09 $256.04 0.41% $130.51 96.99% $196.32 30.95% $241.68 6.38%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $428.01 $299.33 42.99% $295.34 44.92% $382.17 11.99% $406.54 5.28%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $260.91 $283.56 -7.99% $144.82 80.16% $235.96 10.57% $251.40 3.78%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $60.95 $42.32 44.03% $37.84 61.06% $55.02 10.78% $56.55 7.78%
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $2,675.01 $1,911.30 39.96% $1,846.09 44.90% $2,446.74 9.33% $2,545.02 5.11%
ANET Arista Networks Inc $218.01 $253.39 -13.96% $164.48 32.54% $223.08 -2.27% $222.78 -2.14%
AVGO Broadcom Inc $302.77 $261.45 15.81% $190.18 59.20% $271.88 11.36% $297.06 1.92%
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. $60.75 $97.65 -37.79% $53.17 14.26% $59.75 1.67% $57.57 5.52%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $378.41 $277.72 36.25% $299.33 26.42% $374.47 1.05% $378.15 0.07%
ETFC E*TRADE Financial Corp $48.43 $45.64 6.12% $28.88 67.71% $41.38 17.04% $47.68 1.57%
EPAM EPAM Systems Inc $252.32 $174.08 44.94% $168.07 50.13% $223.86 12.71% $235.00 7.37%
EVR Evercore Inc $57.75 $85.54 -32.49% $35.39 63.18% $51.71 11.67% $58.38 -1.08%
FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock $238.79 $191.14 24.93% $149.73 59.48% $231.39 3.20% $228.58 4.47%
FIVE Five Below Inc $107.25 $131.29 -18.31% $52.46 104.44% $97.30 10.23% $110.45 -2.90%
FTNT Fortinet Inc $136.71 $76.13 79.57% $84.91 61.01% $143.38 -4.65% $130.34 4.89%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A $1,424.64 $1,125.37 26.59% $1,068.21 33.37% $1,406.75 1.27% $1,412.92 0.83%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $14.22 $16.57 -14.18% $9.84 44.51% $13.53 5.10% $14.33 -0.77%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $368.77 $361.56 1.99% $242.00 52.38% $349.42 5.54% $341.61 7.95%
JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC $113.97 $134.37 -15.18% $96.13 18.56% $110.85 2.81% $104.68 8.87%
KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc $42.16 $31.64 33.23% $30.30 39.14% $38.48 9.55% $38.97 8.19%
LGIH LGI Homes Inc $87.59 $71.68 22.20% $43.39 101.87% $79.67 9.94% $85.05 2.99%
LRCX Lam Research Corporation $315.25 $179.77 75.36% $186.26 69.26% $259.72 21.38% $283.45 11.22%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $297.38 $181.87 63.51% $165.01 80.22% $267.53 11.16% $296.36 0.34%
MA Mastercard Inc $296.50 $263.09 12.70% $211.11 40.45% $294.26 0.76% $297.79 -0.43%
MEOH Methanex Corporation $19.83 $44.88 -55.82% $9.93 99.66% $17.26 14.90% $20.45 -3.04%
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. $110.93 $75.52 46.88% $74.60 48.70% $99.79 11.16% $104.00 6.66%
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $520.28 $331.12 57.13% $310.26 67.69% $472.93 10.01% $492.79 5.58%
MTZ MasTec, Inc. $44.75 $48.03 -6.83% $26.74 67.35% $36.98 21.01% $39.01 14.71%
MTCH Match Group Inc $95.73 $66.79 43.33% $47.35 102.18% $84.00 13.96% $87.25 9.72%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $453.72 $369.21 22.89% $332.83 36.32% $436.25 4.00% $418.07 8.53%
NSP Insperity Inc $62.75 $121.03 -48.15% $30.75 104.04% $48.15 30.31% $56.24 11.58%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $370.45 $151.33 144.79% $205.66 80.13% $350.85 5.59% $357.30 3.68%
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc $86.26 $99.59 -13.39% $49.67 73.67% $78.18 10.33% $83.30 3.55%
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. $60.02 $47.38 26.68% $19.27 211.52% $52.24 14.90% $55.06 9.01%
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc $164.36 $116.21 41.43% $86.68 89.62% $148.22 10.89% $155.26 5.86%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $75.40 $82.26 -8.34% $57.72 30.63% $78.05 -3.40% $76.38 -1.28%
SUI Sun Communities Inc $142.36 $126.97 12.12% $111.49 27.69% $133.28 6.81% $138.43 2.84%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $127.35 $73.88 72.37% $73.39 73.51% $114.13 11.58% $126.91 0.35%
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) $5.50 $14.16 -61.15% $4.06 35.47% $5.66 -2.83% $5.64 -2.48%
THRM Gentherm Inc $39.46 $41.10 -3.99% $28.31 39.39% $39.63 -0.43% $40.08 -1.55%
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc $106.90 $75.70 41.22% $74.55 43.39% $94.39 13.25% $102.31 4.49%
TNET TriNet Group Inc $58.87 $69.30 -15.05% $36.16 62.80% $49.07 19.97% $53.48 10.08%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $212.19 $355.81 -40.36% $148.06 43.31% $222.76 -4.75% $226.63 -6.37%
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc $291.24 $248.10 17.39% $205.71 41.58% $285.68 1.94% $283.93 2.57%
V Visa Inc $192.20 $172.36 11.51% $146.58 31.12% $190.62 0.83% $192.26 -0.03%

Over the last year, my Watch List returned 17.25%
Over the last quarter, my Watch List returned 61.06%
Over the last month, my Watch List returned 8.77%
Over the last week, my Watch List returned 3.80%

 

SHORT TERM WATCH LIST STOCK RESULTS

 

Stock
Ticker		 Company
name		 Latest
price		 Year
ago		 Year ago
change		 Quarter
ago		 Quarter ago
change		 Month
ago		 Month ago
change		 Week
ago		 Week ago
change
AAPL Apple Inc. $349.72 $196.44 78.03% $228.64 52.96% $316.85 10.37% $338.80 3.22%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $428.01 $299.33 42.99% $295.34 44.92% $382.17 11.99% $406.54 5.28%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $260.91 $283.56 -7.99% $144.82 80.16% $235.96 10.57% $251.40 3.78%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $60.95 $42.32 44.03% $37.84 61.06% $55.02 10.78% $56.55 7.78%
$0.00 $0.00 0.00% $0.00 0.00% $0.00 0.00% $0.00 0.00%
EPAM EPAM Systems Inc $252.32 $174.08 44.94% $168.07 50.13% $223.86 12.71% $235.00 7.37%
FTNT Fortinet Inc $136.71 $76.13 79.57% $84.91 61.01% $143.38 -4.65% $130.34 4.89%
LRCX Lam Research Corporation $315.25 $179.77 75.36% $186.26 69.26% $259.72 21.38% $283.45 11.22%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $297.38 $181.87 63.51% $165.01 80.22% $267.53 11.16% $296.36 0.34%
MA Mastercard Inc $296.50 $263.09 12.70% $211.11 40.45% $294.26 0.76% $297.79 -0.43%
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $520.28 $331.12 57.13% $310.26 67.69% $472.93 10.01% $492.79 5.58%
MTCH Match Group Inc $95.73 $66.79 43.33% $47.35 102.18% $84.00 13.96% $87.25 9.72%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $370.45 $151.33 144.79% $205.66 80.13% $350.85 5.59% $357.30 3.68%
SUI Sun Communities Inc $142.36 $126.97 12.12% $111.49 27.69% $133.28 6.81% $138.43 2.84%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $127.35 $73.88 72.37% $73.39 73.51% $114.13 11.58% $126.91 0.35%

Over the last year, my Short Term Watch List returned 50.86%
Over the last quarter, my Short Term Watch List returned 59.42%
Over the last month, my Short Term Watch List returned 8.87%
Over the last week, my Short Term Watch List returned 4.37%

Short Term List returned 51%
High growth stock: NVIDIA Corporation ($NVDA) at 145%
Total Execution Time: 5.7160458564758 Sec

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TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) 5.973%
MTZ MasTec, Inc. 4.288%
EPAM EPAM Systems Inc 4.187%
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. 3.8773%
TNET TriNet Group Inc 3.5532%
JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC 2.8332%
NSP Insperity Inc 2.8183%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated 1.7957%
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. 1.78%
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. 1.7116%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. 1.6119%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. 1.4722%
FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock 1.2079%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. 0.944%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. 0.8558%
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. 0.7924%
FTNT Fortinet Inc 0.7889%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. 0.7615%
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc 0.4794%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation 0.4692%
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.3465%
LRCX Lam Research Corporation 0.1429%
THRM Gentherm Inc -0.278%
KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc -0.5426%
AAPL Apple Inc. -0.5715%
ANET Arista Networks Inc -0.6562%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A -0.661%
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. -0.8487%
V Visa Inc -0.8819%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation -1.1925%
ETFC E*TRADE Financial Corp -1.2237%
LGIH LGI Homes Inc -1.3293%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc -1.3555%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. -1.3983%
SUI Sun Communities Inc -1.6239%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. -1.8483%
EVR Evercore Inc -2.185%
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc -2.1958%
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc -2.3933%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. -2.4022%
MTCH Match Group Inc -2.5153%
MA Mastercard Inc -2.7391%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc -3.0963%
MEOH Methanex Corporation -3.5975%
FIVE Five Below Inc -3.6128%
AVGO Broadcom Inc -3.9817%

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

 

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Fair
EBITDA growth Good
Price growth Good
R&D growth Poor
Income growth Good
Assets growth Fair
Return on Assets growth Good
Income / Rev growth Fair
TWCA Plus Good
Standard TWCA Good
Weighted ann. stock price increase Good

 

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $262.31
Target stock price (averages with growth) $224.65
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $180.68
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $199.15

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/v/profile?p=v

Visa Inc. operates as a payments technology company worldwide. The company facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among consumers, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, strategic partners, and government entities. It operates VisaNet, a processing network that enables authorization, clearing, and settlement of payment transactions. In addition, the company offers card products, as well as value-added services. It provides its services under the Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink, V PAY, and PLUS brands. Visa Inc. has a strategic partnership with NovoPayment to enable financial institutions and merchants to deploy Visa’s digital solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean; and a strategic agreement with Intuit Inc. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Visa Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of Visa Inc calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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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: $194.99
  • Growth: 0.122478914708533
  • Current EPS (TTM): $5.814509
  • P/E: 30.9549878231515
  • Future EPS Calc: $10.36
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $320.72
  • Target stock price: $199.14

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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.