Cerner Corporation ($CERN) Cautious Buy or Hold to $58 Confident Investor Rating: Fair

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $55.86
Target stock price (averages with growth) $58.18
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $32.57
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $58.1

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

Cerner Corporation is a supplier of healthcare information technology (HCIT). The Company offers a range of intelligent solutions and services that support the clinical, financial and operational needs of organizations. Its segments include Domestic and Global. The Domestic segment includes the business activity in the United States. The Global segment includes the business activity in Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Guam, India, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. It offers software, hardware, professional and managed services. Its solutions are offered on the unified Cerner Millennium architecture and on the HealtheIntent cloud-based platform. Its solutions include Cerner ITWorks, Cerner RevWorks, PowerWorks and CommunityWorks, among others.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Cerner Corporation as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns. I am removing Cerner from my Watch List.

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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: $58.8
  • Growth: 0.1
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.66
  • P/E: 35
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.67
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $93.57
  • Target stock price: $58.1

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