Company name | BlackRock, Inc. |
Stock ticker | BLK |
Live stock price | [stckqut]BLK[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Good |
Sales growth | Good |
EPS growth | Fair |
P/E growth | Poor |
EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Good |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $459.86 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $551.39 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $275.93 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $457.02 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=blk
BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock) is an investment management firm. The Company provides a range of investment and risks management services. The Company’s clients include retail, high net worth (HNW) and institutional investors, consists of pension funds, official institutions, endowments, insurance companies, corporations, financial institutions, central banks and sovereign wealth funds. The Company’s product range includes single- and multi-asset class portfolios investing in equities, fixed income, alternatives and/or money market instruments. The Company offers the products directly and through intermediaries in a variety of vehicles, including open-end and closed-end mutual funds, iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other exchange-traded products, collective investment funds and separate accounts. The Company also offer the BlackRock Solutions (BRS) risk management and advisory services primarily to institutional investors.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in BlackRock, Inc.
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How was this analysis of BlackRock, 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: $372.84
- Growth: 0.15
- Current EPS (TTM): $19.26
- P/E: 19
- Future EPS Calc: $38.73
- Future Stock Price Calc: $736.03
- Target stock price: $457.02
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