Cerner Corporation ($CERN) Possible Buy to $89 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Cerner Corporation
Stock ticker CERN
Live stock price [stckqut]CERN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $110.36
Target stock price (averages with growth) $123.74
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $56.77
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $91.79

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

Cerner Corporation (Cerner) is a healthcare information technology company. The Company offers a range of software, professional services, medical device integration, remote hosting and employer health and wellness services. It designs, develops, markets, installs, hosts and supports healthcare information technology, health care devices, hardware and content solutions for healthcare organizations and consumers. The Company also provides range of value-added services, including implementation and training, remote hosting, operational management services, revenue cycle services, support and maintenance, healthcare data analysis, clinical process optimization, transaction processing, employer health centers, employee wellness programs and third-party administrator services for employer-based health plans. Cerner’s systems are used by individual consumers, single-doctor practices, hospitals, employers and entire countries.

 

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

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How was this analysis of Cerner 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: $73.4
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.5
  • P/E: 49
  • Future EPS Calc: $3.01
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $147.83
  • Target stock price: $91.79

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