ABIOMED, Inc. ($ABMD) Possible Buy to $160 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name ABIOMED, Inc.
Stock ticker ABMD
Live stock price [stckqut]ABMD[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $237.
Target stock price (averages with growth) $262.38
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $119.66
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $47.28

 

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

ABIOMED, Inc. is a provider of temporary percutaneous mechanical circulatory support devices. The Company offers care to heart failure patients. The Company operates in the segment of the research, development and sale of medical devices to assist or replace the pumping function of the failing heart. The Company develops, manufactures and markets products that are designed to enable the heart to rest, heal and recover by improving blood flow to the coronary arteries and end-organs and/or temporarily performing the pumping function of the heart. The Company’s product portfolio includes the Impella 2.5, Impella CP, Impella RP, Impella LD, Impella 5.0 and AB5000. The Company’s products are used in the cardiac catheterization lab (cath lab), by interventional cardiologists, the electrophysiology lab, the hybrid lab and in the heart surgery suite by heart surgeons.

 

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

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How was this analysis of ABIOMED, 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: $152.98
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.7
  • P/E: 18
  • Future EPS Calc: $4.23
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $76.14
  • Target stock price: $47.27

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