Company name | Lululemon Athletica inc. |
Stock ticker | LULU |
Live stock price | [stckqut]LULU[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Poor |
Sales growth | Good |
EPS growth | Good |
P/E growth | Poor |
EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $96.53 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $99.86 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $46.54 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $90.63 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=lulu
lululemon athletica inc. is a designer and retailer of technical athletic apparel. The Company offers a line of apparel and accessories for women, men and female youth. Its apparel assortment includes items, such as pants, shorts, tops and jackets designed for healthy lifestyle activities and athletic pursuits, such as yoga, running, general fitness and dance-inspired apparel for female youth. The Company conducts its business through two channels: corporate-owned stores and direct to consumer. The Company markets its athletic apparel under the lululemon athletica and ivivva athletica brand names. As of February 1, 2015, the Company’s retail footprint included 211 stores in the United States, 57 stores in Canada, 26 stores in Australia, five in New Zealand, two in the United Kingdom and one in Singapore. The Company’s retail stores are located primarily on street locations, in lifestyle centers and in malls.
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Lululemon Athletica inc. 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 Lululemon Athletica 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: $66.51
- Growth: 0.17
- Current EPS (TTM): $1.87
- P/E: 35.6
- Future EPS Calc: $4.09
- Future Stock Price Calc: $145.95
- Target stock price: $90.62
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