I think MKS Instruments, Inc. ($MKSI) is a Possible Buy. It currently should be $169. Confident Investor Rating: Good
| Company name | MKS Instruments, Inc. |
| Stock ticker | MKSI |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]MKSI[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Fair |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Good |
| EBITDA growth | Fair |
| Price growth | Fair |
| R&D growth | Good |
| Income growth | Good |
| Assets growth | Good |
| Return on Assets growth | Good |
| Income / Rev growth | Fair |
| TWCA Plus | Good |
| Standard TWCA | Good |
| Weighted ann. stock price increase | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $169.89 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $1378.28 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $711.4 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $205.8 |
The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/mksi/profile?p=mksi
MKS Instruments, Inc. provides instruments, systems, subsystems, and process control solutions that measure, monitor, deliver, analyze, power, and control critical parameters of manufacturing processes worldwide. Its Vacuum & Analysis segment offers pressure and vacuum control solutions, including direct and indirect pressure measurement; materials delivery solutions comprising flow and valve technologies, as well as integrated pressure measurement and control subsystems, which provide customers with precise control capabilities; power delivery products, such as microwave, power delivery systems, radio frequency matching networks, and metrology products used in providing energy to etching, stripping, and deposition processes; and plasma and reactive gas products. The company’s Light & Motion segment offers lasers and laser-based systems, such as amplifiers, fiber lasers, diode-pumped solid-state lasers, high-energy pulsed lasers, and tunable lasers; and photonics products comprising optical components, lens assemblies, and vibration isolation solutions, as well as instruments and motion products, such as high-precision motion stages and controls, hexapods, photonics instruments for measurement and analysis, and production equipment for test and measurement. Its Equipment & Solutions segment provides laser-based systems for printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing, including flexible interconnect PCB processing systems and HDI solutions for rigid PCB manufacturing and substrate processing, as well as passive component MLCC testing. The company serves semiconductor, industrial technologies, life and health sciences, research, and defense markets. It markets and sells its products and services through its direct sales organization, independent distributors, and sales representatives, as well as through its websites and product catalogs. MKS Instruments, Inc. was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.
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.
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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: $109.66
- Growth: 0.2
- Current EPS (TTM): $4
- P/E: 33.2996222825497
- Future EPS Calc: $9.95
- Future Stock Price Calc: $331.44
- Target stock price: $205.79
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