Company name | EMC Corporation |
Stock ticker | EMC |
Live stock price | [stckqut]EMC[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Good |
Sales growth | Poor |
EPS growth | Good |
P/E growth | Poor |
EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $25.15 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $33.92 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $31.55 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $26.58 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=emc
EMC Corporation (EMC), and its subsidiaries develop, deliver and support the Information Technology (IT) industry’s range of information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions and services. The Company manages its business in two broad categories: EMC Information Infrastructure and VMware Virtual Infrastructure. EMC Information Infrastructure provides a foundation for organizations to store, manage, protect, analyze and secure ever-increasing quantities of information, improve business agility, lower cost of ownership and enhance their competitive advantage within traditional data centers, virtual data centers and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Its EMC Information Infrastructure business consists of three segments: Information Storage, Information Intelligence and RSA Information Security. In July 2014, EMC acquired TwinStrata Inc, a Natick-based developer of cloud-integrated storage solutions.
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in EMC Corporation as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.
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How was this analysis of EMC 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: $26.95
- Growth: 0.101
- Current EPS (TTM): $1.26
- P/E: 21
- Future EPS Calc: $2.03
- Future Stock Price Calc: $42.8
- Target stock price: $26.58
I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]