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Stock ticker Stock name Last Close Recommendation
AAPL Apple Inc. $172.2300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $195.8200 Strong Buy or Hold
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $181.0400 Strong Buy or Hold
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation $260.0700 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $231.2000 Some Concerns, may need to wait
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $124.9500 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $53.9800 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $1204.2000 Strong Buy or Hold
ANET Arista Networks Inc $235.6000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. $177.6400 Strong Buy or Hold
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd $184.0000 Strong Buy or Hold
CBPO China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc. $79.0700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CEVA CEVA, Inc. $47.9500 Strong Buy or Hold
COF Capital One Financial Corp. $99.4400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CRTO Criteo SA (ADR) $25.8100 Some Concerns, may need to wait
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. $54.0200 Strong Buy or Hold
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. $153.6000 Strong Buy or Hold
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $191.6600 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp $111.5800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. $85.6800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
FB Facebook Inc $181.4200 Strong Buy or Hold
GILD Gilead Sciences, Inc. $74.1000 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
GOOGL Alphabet Inc $1073.2100 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $16.7000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc $80.3900 Strong Buy or Hold
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. $6.0300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
HSKA Heska Corp $78.0000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HZO MarineMax Inc $18.9000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
IBP Installed Building Products Inc $77.6000 Strong Buy or Hold
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $230.3200 Strong Buy or Hold
LGIH LGI Homes Inc $78.7700 Strong Buy or Hold
LRCX Lam Research Corporation $192.5000 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $78.5900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MCK McKesson Corporation $156.7600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. $40.3000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MIDD Middleby Corp $136.0600 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $203.6300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. $56.2200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MU Micron Technology, Inc. $43.6700 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $201.0700 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $199.3500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
PCLN Priceline Group Inc $1784.7500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc $382.6000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $57.6300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
SCHW Charles Schwab Corp $51.4400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. $226.5600 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
SUI Sun Communities Inc $91.7000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $98.4300 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) $22.9400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
THRM Gentherm Inc $32.0500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. $192.9800 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
TMUS T-Mobile US Inc $64.0400 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
TNET TriNet Group Inc $43.4400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $229.6300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon

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Symbol Stock Price change today
MU Micron Technology, Inc. 6.2014%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. 4.7458%
LGIH LGI Homes Inc 3.9868%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc 3.6651%
GILD Gilead Sciences, Inc. 3.4338%
CEVA CEVA, Inc. 3.2293%
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) 3.1939%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation 3.0233%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. 2.9294%
FB Facebook Inc 2.8108%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. 2.8077%
PCLN Priceline Group Inc 2.7052%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc 2.6692%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. 2.5249%
IBP Installed Building Products Inc 2.4422%
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. 2.2296%
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc 2.1085%
ANET Arista Networks Inc 1.9781%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc 1.8806%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated 1.8796%
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation 1.8564%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. 1.7722%
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.7661%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. 1.73%
LRCX Lam Research Corporation 1.7012%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 1.6326%
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. 1.4841%
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. 1.2775%
THRM Gentherm Inc 0.9449%
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. 0.9318%
TMUS T-Mobile US Inc 0.8345%
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.7255%
MIDD Middleby Corp 0.5766%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation 0.3483%
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.1906%
SCHW Charles Schwab Corp 0.1363%
AAPL Apple Inc. -0.0174%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. -0.0889%
COF Capital One Financial Corp. -0.1707%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. -0.2985%
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. -0.4938%
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. -0.8794%
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp -1.0026%
CRTO Criteo SA (ADR) -1.0732%
SUI Sun Communities Inc -1.164%
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. -1.2068%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. -1.3803%
MCK McKesson Corporation -1.4088%
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. -2.024%
TNET TriNet Group Inc -2.0298%
HSKA Heska Corp -2.1944%
HZO MarineMax Inc -2.5773%
CBPO China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc. -2.719%
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. -3.0547%

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Company name Lam Research Corporation
Stock ticker LRCX
Live stock price [stckqut]LRCX[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

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) $291.33
Target stock price (averages with growth) $428.89
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $291.33
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $304.53

 

The following company description is from Google Finance: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=lrcx

Lam Research Corporation is a supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry. The Company designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes and services semiconductor processing systems that are used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs). It operates through manufacturing and servicing of wafer processing semiconductor manufacturing equipment segment. Its products are designed to enable its customers build a range of devices that are used in a range of electronic products, including cell phones, tablets, computers, storage devices, and networking equipment. Its customer base includes semiconductor memory, foundry, and integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) that make products, such as dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), negative-AND (NAND) memory and logic devices. It offers a portfolio of products that are used in several areas of the semiconductor manufacturing process flow, including thin film deposition, plasma etch and single-wafer clean.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Lam Research Corporation as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. I am adding Lam Research to my Watch List.

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 Lam Research Corporation 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: $188.6
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $10.95
  • P/E: 18
  • Future EPS Calc: $27.24
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $490.44
  • Target stock price: $304.52

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Company name LGI Homes Inc
Stock ticker LGIH
Live stock price [stckqut]LGIH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $117.47
Target stock price (averages with growth) $172.93
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $117.47
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $119.87

 

The following company description is from Google Finance: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=lgih

LGI Homes, Inc. is a homebuilder and land developer. The Company is engaged in the design, construction, marketing and sale of new homes in markets in Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, South Carolina, North Carolina, Colorado, Washington and Tennessee. The Company operates through five segments: the Texas division, the Southwest division, the Southeast division, the Florida division and the Northwest division. The Texas division includes homebuilding operations in Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin locations. The Southwest division includes homebuilding operations in Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Denver and Colorado Springs locations. The Southeast division includes homebuilding operations in Atlanta, Charlotte and Nashville locations. The Florida division includes homebuilding operations in Tampa, Orlando, Fort Myers and Jacksonville locations. The Northwest division includes homebuilding operations in Seattle location.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in LGI Homes Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. I am adding LGI Homes to my Watch List.

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 LGI Homes 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: $75.97
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.31
  • P/E: 18
  • Future EPS Calc: $10.72
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $193.04
  • Target stock price: $119.86

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

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) $344.83
Target stock price (averages with growth) $451.51
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $306.69
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $303.03

 

The following company description is from Google Finance: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=ilmn

Illumina, Inc. (Illumina) is a provider of sequencing- and array-based solutions for genetic analysis. The Company operates through two segments: Core Illumina and the consolidated variable interest entities (VIEs), which include the activities of GRAIL, Inc. (GRAIL) and Helix Holdings I, LLC (Helix). Core Illumina consists of its core operations. Core Illumina’s products and services serve customers in the research, clinical and applied markets, and enable the adoption of a range of genomic solutions. The Company’s portfolio of integrated systems, consumables and analysis tools addresses the range of genomic complexity, price points, and throughput, enabling customers to select the solution for their research or clinical challenge. The Company provides reproductive-health solutions, including noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), preimplantation genetic screening and diagnosis, and neonatal and genetic health testing.

 

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

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 Illumina, 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: $223.37
  • Growth: 0.17
  • Current EPS (TTM): $5.3
  • P/E: 42
  • Future EPS Calc: $11.61
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $488.03
  • Target stock price: $303.03

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