ANSYS, Inc. ($ANSS) Cautious Buy or Hold to $86 Confident Investor Rating: Fair

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $86.01
Target stock price (averages with growth) $76.33
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $41.77
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $159.07

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

ANSYS, Inc. (ANSYS) develops and markets engineering simulation software and services used by engineers, designers, researchers and students across a spectrum of industries and academia. The Company’s product portfolio consists of ANSYS Workbench, Structures, Fluids, Electronics, Systems and Academic. ANSYS Workbench is the framework upon which the Company’s suite of advanced engineering simulation technologies is built. Its structures product suite offers simulation tools for product design and optimization. The Company’s fluids product suite enables modeling of fluid flow and other related physical phenomena. Its electronics product suite provides field simulation software for designing electronic and electromechanical products. The Company delivers system simulation capability that is used for the design of automated products. The Company’s academic product suite provides portfolio of academic products.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in ANSYS, Inc. as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I am removing ANSYS from my Watch List.

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How was this analysis of ANSYS, 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: $85.58
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.71
  • P/E: 47
  • Future EPS Calc: $5.45
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $256.18
  • Target stock price: $159.07

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