Company name Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc
Stock ticker REGN
Live stock price [stckqut]REGN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

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) $903.84
Target stock price (averages with growth) $999.54
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $454.52
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $900.61

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=regn

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an integrated biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. The Company commercializes medicines for eye diseases, colorectal cancer, and a rare inflammatory condition and has product candidates under development in other areas, including hypercholesterolemia, oncology, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), asthma and atopic dermatitis. The Company’s marketed products include EYLEA (aflibercept) injection, ZALTRAP (ziv-aflibercept) injection for intravenous infusion and ARCALYST (rilonacept) injection for subcutaneous use. The Company has 17 product candidates in clinical development. Its product candidates consist of two trap-based clinical programs and 15 human monoclonal antibody product candidates. The Company has generated each of the antibodies using its VelocImmune technology.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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How was this analysis of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 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: $585.2
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.02
  • P/E: 145
  • Future EPS Calc: $10
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $1450.44
  • Target stock price: $900.61

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $48.22
Target stock price (averages with growth) $41.46
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $25.31
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $53.89

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=qcom

QUALCOMM Incorporated (Qualcomm) designs, manufactures and market digital communications products and services based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) and other technologies. The Company’s products consist of integrated circuits and system software used in mobile devices and in wireless networks. The Company operates in three segments, including Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL) and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI). QCT develops and supplies integrated circuits and system software based on CDMA, OFDMA and other technologies. QTL segment provides rights to use portions of its property portfolio. QSI segment is focused on opening new opportunities for its technologies.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in QUALCOMM, Inc. as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns and I currently think the stock is overpriced at this level. I will be removing the stock from my Watch List.

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How was this analysis of QUALCOMM, 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: $62.92
  • Growth: 0.07
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.64
  • P/E: 17
  • Future EPS Calc: $5.1
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $86.78
  • Target stock price: $53.88

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