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MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

ANALYSIS

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

Genesee & Wyoming Inc., incorporated on September 1, 1977, owns and operates freight railroads across the world. As of December 31, 2016, the Company owned or leased 122 freight railroads worldwide that are organized in 10 operating regions. The Company operates through three segments, which include North American Operations, Australian Operations, and U.K./European Operations. In North America, the Company has operations in eight regions, such as Central, Coastal (which includes industrial switching and port operations), Midwest, Mountain West (which includes industrial switching operations), Northeast, Pacific, Southern, and Canada. Outside the United States, the Company has operations in two regions: Australia and the United Kingdom/Europe (which consists of operations in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland, as well as the provision of management and technical support through Freightliner to Saudi Arabia Railway Company).

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Genesee & Wyoming Inc as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I am removing Genessee & Wyoming from my Watch List as I think there are better investments on the market.

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How was this analysis of Genesee & Wyoming 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: $77.8
• Growth: 0.12
• Current EPS (TTM): $3.61
• P/E: 21
• Future EPS Calc: $6.36
• Future Stock Price Calc: $133.6
• Target stock price: $82.95

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MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

ANALYSIS

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

Gray Television, Inc., incorporated on January 25, 1897, is a television broadcast company. The Company owns and operates television stations and digital assets in various markets across the United States. As of February 21, 2017, the Company owned and/or operated television stations in 54 television markets broadcasting over 200 separate programming streams, including 37 affiliates of the CBS Network (CBS), 29 affiliates of the NBC Network (NBC), 20 affiliates of the ABC Network (ABC) and 15 affiliates of the FOX Network (FOX). In addition to a primary broadcast channel, each of its stations can also broadcast additional secondary digital channels within a market by utilizing the same bandwidth, but with different programming from the primary channel.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Gray Television, 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 Gray Television, 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: $11
• Growth: 0.12
• Current EPS (TTM): $1.66
• P/E: 6
• Future EPS Calc: $2.92
• Future Stock Price Calc: $17.55
• Target stock price: $10.89

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MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

ANALYSIS

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

Alphabet Inc., incorporated on July 23, 2015, is a holding company. The Company’s businesses include Google Inc. (Google) and its Internet products, such as Access, Calico, CapitalG, GV, Nest, Verily, Waymo and X. The Company’s segments include Google and Other Bets. The Google segment includes its Internet products, such as Search, Ads, Commerce, Maps, YouTube, Google Cloud, Android, Chrome and Google Play, as well as its hardware initiatives. The Google segment is engaged in advertising, sales of digital content, applications and cloud offerings, and sales of hardware products. The Other Bets segment is engaged in the sales of Internet and television services through Google Fiber, sales of Nest products and services, and licensing and research and development (R&D) services through Verily.

Google is engaged in investing in infrastructure, data management, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). The Company offers Google Assistant, which allows users to type or talk with Google in a natural conversational way to help them get things done; Google Maps, which helps users navigate to a store while showing them current traffic conditions, and Google Photos, which helps users store and organize all of their photos. The Company invests in platforms, such as Chrome browser, Android mobile operating system, Chrome operating system and Daydream virtual reality platform, as well as its hardware devices, such as the Pixel phone and Google Home.

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Alphabet 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 Alphabet 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: $1068.07
• Growth: 0.13
• Current EPS (TTM): $37.7
• P/E: 28
• Future EPS Calc: $69.45
• Future Stock Price Calc: $1944.87
• Target stock price: $1207.61

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