Gulfport Energy Corporation – $GPOR – Confident Investor Rating: Poor
| Company name | Gulfport Energy Corporation |
| Stock ticker | GPOR |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]GPOR[/stckqut] |
| Confident Investor Rating | Poor |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=gpor
Gulfport Energy Corporation (Gulfport) is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on the exploration, exploitation, acquisition and production of natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil in the United States. The Company has an oil and natural gas portfolio of proved reserves, as well as development and exploratory drilling opportunities on conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas prospects. The Company’s principal properties are located in the Utica Shale primarily in Eastern Ohio and along the Louisiana Gulf Coast in the West Cote Blanche Bay (WCBB), and Hackberry fields. In addition, the Company has interest in producing properties in the Niobrara Formation of Northwestern Colorado and the Bakken Formation. The Company also holds an acreage position in the Alberta oil sands in Canada through its interest in Grizzly Oil Sands ULC (Grizzly), and interests in an entity that operates in the Phu Horm gas field in Thailand.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Gulfport Energy Corporation. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable. I will be removing Gulfport from my Watch List.
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Alphabet Inc ($GOOGL) Possible Buy to $784 Confident Investor Rating: Good
| Company name | Alphabet Inc |
| Stock ticker | GOOGL |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]GOOGL[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Good |
| EPS growth | Fair |
| P/E growth | Fair |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $877.92 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $927.89 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $480.21 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $869.08 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=googl
Alphabet Inc. is a holding company. The Company holds interests in Google Inc. (Google). The Company’s segments include Google and Other Bets. Google segment includes Internet products, such as Search, Ads, Commerce, Maps, YouTube, Apps, Cloud, Android, Chrome, Google Play, and hardware products, including Chromecast, Chromebooks and Nexus, which are sold by the Company. Its technical infrastructure and Virtual Reality are also included in Google segment. Google segment is engaged in advertising, sales of digital content, applications and cloud services, as well as sale of Google branded hardware. The Other Bets segment consists of various operating segments and includes businesses, such as Access/Google Fiber, Calico, Nest, Verily, GV, Google Capital, X and other initiatives. Other Bets segment is engaged in the sale of Nest hardware products, Internet and television services through Google Fiber, and licensing and research and development (R&D) services through Verily.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Alphabet Inc.
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How was this analysis of Alphabet 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: $765.84
- Growth: 0.13
- Current EPS (TTM): $23.74
- P/E: 32
- Future EPS Calc: $43.73
- Future Stock Price Calc: $1399.66
- Target stock price: $869.07
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Fossil Group Inc ($FOSL) Confident Investor Rating: Poor
| Company name | Fossil Group Inc |
| Stock ticker | FOSL |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]FOSL[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Poor |
| Sales growth | Poor |
| EPS growth | Poor |
| P/E growth | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Poor |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Poor |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $4.79 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $4.21 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $4.62 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $360.61 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=fosl
Fossil Group, Inc. is a design, marketing and distribution company that specializes in consumer fashion accessories. The Company’s segments are Americas, Europe and Asia. Each segment includes sales to wholesale and distributor customers, and sales through the Company-owned retail stores and e-commerce activities based on the location of the selling entity. The Americas segment includes sales to customers based in Canada, Latin America and the United States. The Europe segment includes sales to customers based in European countries, the Middle East and Africa. The Asia segment includes sales to customers based in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The Company’s principal offerings include a line of men’s and women’s fashion watches and jewelry, handbags, small leather goods, belts, sunglasses and soft accessories. Its brand includes FOSSIL, MICHELE, RELIC, SKAGEN, ZODIAC, ADIDAS, BURBERRY, DIESEL and DKNY.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Fossil Group Inc. I am removing Fossil Group from 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 Fossil Group 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: $31.28
- Growth: 0.2
- Current EPS (TTM): $3.89
- P/E: 60
- Future EPS Calc: $9.67
- Future Stock Price Calc: $580.77
- Target stock price: $360.61
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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.