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Company name MasTec, Inc.
Stock ticker MTZ
Live stock price [stckqut]MTZ[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $76.68
Target stock price (averages with growth) $61.55
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $61.55
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $64.09

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/mtz

MasTec, Inc., incorporated on April 8, 1998, is an infrastructure construction company. The Company operates primarily across North America through a range of industries. The Company operates through five segments: Communications, Oil and Gas, Electrical Transmission, Power Generation and Industrial, and Other. Its primary activities include the engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of communications, energy and utility infrastructure, such as wireless, wireline/fiber, satellite communications and customer fulfillment activities; petroleum and natural gas pipeline infrastructure; electrical utility transmission and distribution; conventional and renewable power generation, and industrial infrastructure. The Company offered its services primarily under the MasTec service mark and had operations across 510 locations as of December 31, 2016. It provides services under master service and other service agreements, which are generally multi-year agreements. It offers its service offerings in markets, including wireless services; wireline/fiber; customer fulfillment; natural gas and petroleum pipeline infrastructure; power generation, including renewables; and electrical transmission.

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

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  • Stock price at the time of the calculation: $49.65
  • Growth: 0.16
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.51
  • P/E: 14
  • Future EPS Calc: $7.37
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $103.21
  • Target stock price: $64.08

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Stock ticker Stock name Last Close Recommendation
AAPL Apple Inc. $190.1500 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $267.8700 Strong Buy or Hold
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $278.1600 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $307.6600 Some Concerns, may need to wait
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $118.4000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $41.5100 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
AMN AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. $51.4900 Strong Buy or Hold
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $1804.0300 Some Concerns, may need to wait
ANET Arista Networks Inc $246.4400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AVGO Broadcom Inc $274.8700 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd $154.2300 Some Concerns, may need to wait
BKNG Booking Holdings Inc $1778.2900 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
CBPO China Biologic Products Holdings Inc $88.7000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
COHR Coherent, Inc. $119.6600 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. $40.7100 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. $92.0000 Some Concerns, may need to wait
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $287.0000 Strong Buy or Hold
EA Electronic Arts Inc. $96.9900 Strong Buy or Hold
FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock $173.3500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A $1068.3700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $16.4700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HZO MarineMax Inc $16.5200 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $335.4900 Strong Buy or Hold
JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC $130.9700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc $30.1700 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
LGIH LGI Homes Inc $74.4300 Strong Buy or Hold
LRCX Lam Research Corporation $186.6800 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $172.4900 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
MA Mastercard Inc $265.8000 Strong Buy or Hold
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. $73.7600 Some Concerns, may need to wait
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $334.6100 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
MTZ MasTec, Inc. $49.6500 Strong Buy or Hold
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $360.8700 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
NSP Insperity Inc $119.4300 Strong Buy or Hold
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $145.5000 Some Concerns, may need to wait
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc $98.4700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. $43.8300 Some Concerns, may need to wait
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc $114.0200 Strong Buy or Hold
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc $306.7200 Some Concerns, may need to wait
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $82.4800 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A $188.4000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SUI Sun Communities Inc $129.7800 Strong Buy or Hold
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $70.1500 Some Concerns, may need to wait
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) $13.1600 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
THRM Gentherm Inc $39.7500 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc $77.0300 Strong Buy or Hold
TNET TriNet Group Inc $65.0500 Strong Buy or Hold
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $338.1600 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc $246.7700 Strong Buy or Hold
V Visa Inc $170.0500 Strong Buy or Hold
WCG WellCare Health Plans, Inc. $288.3300 Strong Buy or Hold

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One of the biggest challenges in investing in the stock market is picking the best stocks. In my book, “The Confident Investor” I teach my readers how to pick Good Companies. This page is designed to show the raw performance of these companies. It is not designed to show my personal portfolio, which may or may not exceed the performance stated here. Since I use the trading system described in my book, you can assume that I beat the performance recorded here.

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		 Current
price		 Year
ago		 Year ago
change		 Quarter
ago		 Quarter ago
change		 Month
ago		 Month ago
change		 Week
ago		 Week ago
change
AAPL Apple Inc. $190.15 $188.81 0.71% $172.24 10.40% $199.94 -4.90% $175.07 8.61%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $267.87 $409.77 -34.63% $314.21 -14.75% $261.94 2.26% $261.92 2.27%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $278.16 $251.21 10.73% $254.74 9.19% $275.79 0.86% $270.90 2.68%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $307.66 $346.67 -11.25% $230.84 33.28% $323.25 -4.82% $284.35 8.20%
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $118.40 $118.33 0.06% $128.68 -7.99% $131.77 -10.15% $113.68 4.15%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $41.51 $50.11 -17.16% $37.55 10.56% $40.73 1.92% $38.69 7.29%
AMN AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. $51.49 $56.45 -8.79% $46.26 11.31% $51.69 -0.39% $48.44 6.30%
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $1,804.03 $1,683.99 7.13% $1,620.80 11.30% $1,899.87 -5.04% $1,775.07 1.63%
ANET Arista Networks Inc $246.44 $273.75 -9.98% $274.55 -10.24% $267.43 -7.85% $244.59 0.76%
AVGO Broadcom Inc $274.87 $249.45 10.19% $261.81 4.99% $304.06 -9.60% $251.64 9.23%
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd $154.23 $205.07 -24.79% $175.03 -11.88% $179.04 -13.86% $149.26 3.33%
BKNG Booking Holdings Inc $1,778.29 $2,136.54 -16.77% $1,715.82 3.64% $1,736.03 2.43% $1,656.22 7.37%
CBPO China Biologic Products Holdings Inc $88.70 $84.36 5.14% $82.83 7.09% $92.70 -4.31% $89.81 -1.24%
COHR Coherent, Inc. $119.66 $170.52 -29.83% $133.86 -10.61% $136.27 -12.19% $110.03 8.75%
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. $40.71 $37.53 8.47% $40.07 1.60% $48.68 -16.37% $37.37 8.94%
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. $92.00 $84.23 9.23% $82.70 11.25% $95.77 -3.94% $87.45 5.20%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $287.00 $267.69 7.22% $249.86 14.86% $282.16 1.72% $279.50 2.68%
EA Electronic Arts Inc. $96.99 $137.87 -29.65% $98.36 -1.39% $93.32 3.93% $93.08 4.20%
FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock $173.35 $189.10 -8.33% $169.60 2.21% $188.65 -8.11% $177.47 -2.32%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A $1,068.37 $1,132.71 -5.68% $1,149.97 -7.10% $1,167.97 -8.53% $1,106.50 -3.45%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $16.47 $11.40 44.47% $21.64 -23.89% $20.11 -18.10% $17.23 -4.41%
HZO MarineMax Inc $16.52 $24.65 -32.98% $18.50 -10.70% $16.51 0.06% $15.58 6.03%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $335.49 $282.03 18.96% $294.53 13.91% $317.37 5.71% $306.91 9.31%
JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC $130.97 $176.79 -25.92% $132.52 -1.17% $139.88 -6.37% $125.55 4.32%
KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc $30.17 $40.21 -24.97% $32.39 -6.85% $31.27 -3.52% $27.64 9.15%
LGIH LGI Homes Inc $74.43 $62.28 19.51% $58.03 28.26% $69.35 7.33% $68.20 9.13%
LRCX Lam Research Corporation $186.68 $184.22 1.34% $167.80 11.25% $198.63 -6.02% $174.61 6.91%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $172.49 $122.02 41.36% $142.51 21.04% $173.71 -0.70% $165.59 4.17%
MA Mastercard Inc $265.80 $198.94 33.61% $221.56 19.97% $245.31 8.35% $251.49 5.69%
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. $25.57 $41.15 -37.86% $29.53 -13.41% $28.46 -10.15% $24.63 3.82%
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. $73.76 $102.13 -27.78% $78.24 -5.72% $84.50 -12.71% $71.46 3.22%
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $334.61 $213.10 57.02% $225.26 48.54% $278.00 20.36% $297.82 12.35%
MTZ MasTec, Inc. $49.65 $50.30 -1.29% $46.02 7.89% $51.06 -2.76% $46.49 6.80%
MU Micron Technology, Inc. $33.99 $61.39 -44.63% $38.65 -12.06% $39.27 -13.45% $32.61 4.23%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $360.87 $360.57 0.08% $349.60 3.22% $362.75 -0.52% $343.28 5.12%
NSP Insperity Inc $119.43 $96.56 23.69% $120.98 -1.28% $116.67 2.37% $113.61 5.12%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $145.50 $261.30 -44.32% $150.47 -3.30% $169.99 -14.41% $135.46 7.41%
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc $98.47 $69.27 42.15% $102.57 -4.00% $110.41 -10.81% $100.15 -1.68%
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. $43.83 $62.00 -29.31% $45.11 -2.84% $47.05 -6.84% $40.79 7.45%
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc $114.02 $84.34 35.19% $95.69 19.16% $109.73 3.91% $109.75 3.89%
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc $306.72 $308.10 -0.45% $402.64 -23.82% $324.17 -5.38% $301.72 1.66%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $82.48 $55.36 48.99% $69.04 19.46% $77.90 5.88% $76.06 8.44%
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A $188.40 $223.87 -15.84% $165.57 13.79% $201.89 -6.68% $176.45 6.77%
SUI Sun Communities Inc $129.78 $94.25 37.70% $115.25 12.61% $122.06 6.32% $126.27 2.78%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $70.15 $97.88 -28.33% $79.68 -11.97% $83.18 -15.66% $66.63 5.28%
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) $13.16 $14.99 -12.21% $12.62 4.25% $11.56 13.84% $13.09 0.53%
THRM Gentherm Inc $39.75 $37.15 7.00% $38.43 3.43% $40.74 -2.43% $37.38 6.34%
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc $77.03 $57.80 33.27% $70.65 9.03% $74.25 3.74% $73.44 4.89%
TNET TriNet Group Inc $65.05 $55.92 16.33% $59.76 8.85% $62.70 3.75% $63.38 2.63%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $338.16 $253.06 33.63% $306.39 10.37% $348.05 -2.84% $333.38 1.43%
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc $246.77 $247.24 -0.19% $237.29 4.00% $237.97 3.70% $241.80 2.06%
V Visa Inc $170.05 $133.87 27.03% $147.13 15.58% $159.57 6.57% $161.33 5.41%
WCG WellCare Health Plans, Inc. $288.33 $233.99 23.22% $239.71 20.28% $266.29 8.28% $276.19 4.40%

Over the last year, my Watch List returned -2.16%
Over the last quarter, my Watch List returned 4.92%
Over the last month, my Watch List returned -2.20%
Over the last week, my Watch List returned 3.92%

 

SHORT TERM WATCH LIST STOCK RESULTS

 

Stock
Ticker		 Company
name		 Current
price		 Year
ago		 Year ago
change		 Quarter
ago		 Quarter ago
change		 Month
ago		 Month ago
change		 Week
ago		 Week ago
change
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $278.16 $251.21 10.73% $254.74 9.19% $275.79 0.86% $270.90 2.68%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $307.66 $346.67 -11.25% $230.84 33.28% $323.25 -4.82% $284.35 8.20%
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $1,804.03 $1,683.99 7.13% $1,620.80 11.30% $1,899.87 -5.04% $1,775.07 1.63%
ANET Arista Networks Inc $246.44 $273.75 -9.98% $274.55 -10.24% $267.43 -7.85% $244.59 0.76%
AVGO Broadcom Inc $274.87 $249.45 10.19% $261.81 4.99% $304.06 -9.60% $251.64 9.23%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $16.47 $11.40 44.47% $21.64 -23.89% $20.11 -18.10% $17.23 -4.41%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $335.49 $282.03 18.96% $294.53 13.91% $317.37 5.71% $306.91 9.31%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $172.49 $122.02 41.36% $142.51 21.04% $173.71 -0.70% $165.59 4.17%
MA Mastercard Inc $265.80 $198.94 33.61% $221.56 19.97% $245.31 8.35% $251.49 5.69%
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $334.61 $213.10 57.02% $225.26 48.54% $278.00 20.36% $297.82 12.35%
NSP Insperity Inc $119.43 $96.56 23.69% $120.98 -1.28% $116.67 2.37% $113.61 5.12%
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc $98.47 $69.27 42.15% $102.57 -4.00% $110.41 -10.81% $100.15 -1.68%
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc $114.02 $84.34 35.19% $95.69 19.16% $109.73 3.91% $109.75 3.89%
TNET TriNet Group Inc $65.05 $55.92 16.33% $59.76 8.85% $62.70 3.75% $63.38 2.63%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $338.16 $253.06 33.63% $306.39 10.37% $348.05 -2.84% $333.38 1.43%

Over the last year, my Short Term Watch List returned 13.82%
Over the last quarter, my Short Term Watch List returned 12.70%
Over the last month, my Short Term Watch List returned -1.68%
Over the last week, my Short Term Watch List returned 4.04%

Short Term List returned 14%
High growth stock: MarketAxess Holdings Inc. ($MKTX) at 57%
Total Execution Time: 0.77072501182556 Sec

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Company name MarketAxess Holdings Inc.
Stock ticker MKTX
Live stock price [stckqut]MKTX[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

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) $517.1
Target stock price (averages with growth) $445.77
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $445.77
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $434.27

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/mktx

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., incorporated on April 11, 2000, operates an electronic trading platform that enables fixed-income market participants to trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments using its trading technology. Institutional investor and broker-dealer firms are the users of its trading platform, accessing global liquidity in the United States corporate bonds, emerging markets and high-yield bonds, European bonds, the United States agency bonds, municipal bonds, credit default swaps and other fixed-income securities. Through its Open Trading protocols, the Company executes trades in certain bonds between and among institutional investor and broker-dealer clients in an all-to-all trading environment on a matched principal basis. The Company also offers trading-related products and services, including market data to assist clients with trading decisions; connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing; technology services to optimize trading environments, and execution services for exchange-traded fund managers and other clients. Through its Trax division, the Company also offers a range of pre- and post-trade services, including trade matching, regulatory transaction reporting, and market and reference data across a range of fixed-income and other products.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in MarketAxess Holdings 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 MarketAxess Holdings 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: $334.61
  • Growth: 0.16
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.69
  • P/E: 71
  • Future EPS Calc: $9.85
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $699.39
  • Target stock price: $434.26

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Company name MKS Instruments, Inc.
Stock ticker MKSI
Live stock price [stckqut]MKSI[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $113.89
Target stock price (averages with growth) $82.07
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $82.07
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $88.65

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/mksi

MKS Instruments, Inc., incorporated on June 14, 1961, is a global provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions that measures, controls, powers, delivers, monitors and analyzes critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes. The Company operates through two segments, including the Vacuum & Analysis segment and the Light & Motion segment. The Vacuum & Analysis segment provides a range of instruments, components, subsystems and software, which are derived from its core competencies in pressure measurement and control, flow measurement and control, gas and vapor delivery, gas composition analysis, residual gas analysis, leak detection, control and information technology, ozone generation and delivery, radio frequency (RF) and direct current (DC) power, reactive gas generation and vacuum technology. The Light & Motion segment provides a range of instruments, components and subsystems, which are derived from its core competencies in lasers, photonics and optics.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in MKS Instruments, 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 MKS Instruments, 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: $73.76
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $5.46
  • P/E: 13
  • Future EPS Calc: $10.98
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $142.76
  • Target stock price: $88.64

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