Company name Trinity Industries Inc
Stock ticker TRN
Live stock price [stckqut]TRN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $40.72
Target stock price (averages with growth) $41.59
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $18.19
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $34.55

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

Trinity Industries, Inc. is a diversified industrial company that owns businesses providing products and services to the energy, transportation, chemical and construction sectors. The Company’s products and services include railcars and railcar parts, the leasing, management, and maintenance of railcars, inland barges, highway products, aggregates, storage and distribution containers, structural wind towers, electric utility structures and parts and steel components. The Company operates under the following segments: the Rail Group, Construction Products Group, Inland Barge Group, Energy Equipment Group, Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, and All Other. The Company caters to concrete producers, which include commercial, residential, highway contractors, manufacturers of masonry products, and state and local municipalities. It also caters to commercial marine transportation companies, wind turbine producers, dealers and industrial users.

 

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

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How was this analysis of Trinity Industries 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: $26.37
  • Growth: 0.17
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.23
  • P/E: 6
  • Future EPS Calc: $9.27
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $55.64
  • Target stock price: $34.55

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