Trimble Navigation Limited ($TRMB) Confident Investor Rating: Poor

Company name Trimble Navigation Limited
Stock ticker TRMB
Live stock price [stckqut]TRMB[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $8.65
Target stock price (averages with growth) $8.18
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $6.07
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $14.37

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

Trimble Navigation Limited is a provider of technology solutions for professionals and field mobile workers. The Company operates through four segments: Engineering and Construction, Field Solutions, Mobile Solutions and Advanced Devices. The Engineering and Construction segment provides heavy civil construction, building construction and geospatial solutions. The Field Solutions segment offers positioning systems, automated application systems, and data collection and integration systems to the agriculture and geographic information systems (GIS) markets. The Mobile Solutions segment includes its Transportation and Logistics, and Field Service Management businesses. The Advanced Devices segment includes its Embedded Technologies, Timing, Applanix, Trimble Outdoors, Military and Advanced Systems (MAS), and ThingMagic businesses. The Company’s brands include Trimble, PeopleNet, GEOTrac, TMW and ALK Technologies. In addition, the Company offers the TILOS software.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Trimble Navigation Limited. I am removing the company from my Watch List.

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How was this analysis of Trimble Navigation Limited 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: $18.19
  • Growth: 0.05
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.49
  • P/E: 37
  • Future EPS Calc: $0.62
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $23.13
  • Target stock price: $14.36

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