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AMAT Applied Materials Inc. -0.14%
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ALGN Align Technology Inc. -0.22%
AMZN Amazon.com Inc. -0.24%
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FB Facebook Inc. -0.44%
MNST Monster Beverage Corporation -0.45%
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HOG Harley-Davidson Inc. -0.52%
AYI Acuity Brands Inc (Holding Comp -0.63%
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BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. -0.83%
MRK Merck & Company Inc. (new) -0.83%
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Limited A -0.84%
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc. (The) -0.86%
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EXR Extra Space Storage Inc -1.12%
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AZPN Aspen Technology Inc. -1.21%
CRUS Cirrus Logic Inc. -1.36%
THRM Gentherm Inc -1.44%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation -1.55%
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Company name Acuity Brands, Inc.
Stock ticker AYI
Live stock price [stckqut]AYI[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $195.07
Target stock price (averages with growth) $214.62
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $118.05
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $193.32

 

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

Acuity Brands, Inc. is a provider of lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure and residential applications throughout North America and other international markets. The Company operates through North American segment. The Company offers a portfolio of indoor and outdoor lighting and building management solutions for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure and residential applications. The portfolio of lighting solutions include lighting products utilizing fluorescent, light emitting diode (LED), organic LED (OLED), high intensity discharge, metal halide, and incandescent light sources to illuminate a number of applications. The solutions portfolio of the Company also includes modular wiring, LED drivers, sensors, glass and inverters sold primarily to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Its lighting and building management solutions are marketed under various brand names, including Lithonia Lighting and Holophane.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Acuity Brands, 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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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: $197.76
  • Growth: 0.1
  • Current EPS (TTM): $7.16
  • P/E: 27
  • Future EPS Calc: $11.53
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $311.34
  • Target stock price: $193.32

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Company name Amazon.com, Inc.
Stock ticker AMZN
Live stock price [stckqut]AMZN[/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) $1531.86
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1690.92
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $765.17
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $1529.6

 

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

Amazon.com, Inc. offers a range of products and services through its Websites. The Company operates through three segments: North America, International and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The North America segment consists of retail sales of consumer products (including from sellers) and subscriptions through North America-focused Websites, such as www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca and www.amazon.com.mx. The International segment primarily consists of retail sales of consumer products (including from sellers) and subscriptions through internationally-focused Websites, such as www.amazon.com.au, www.amazon.nl, www.amazon.es and www.amazon.co.uk. The AWS segment consists of sales of compute, storage, database, and other service offerings for start-ups, enterprises, government agencies and academic institutions. The Company’s products include merchandise and content that it purchases for resale from vendors and those offered by third-party sellers. It manufactures and sells electronic devices.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Amazon.com, Inc. as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of Amazon.com, 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: $992.27
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.96
  • P/E: 250
  • Future EPS Calc: $9.85
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $2463.43
  • Target stock price: $1529.6

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Company name Applied Materials, Inc.
Stock ticker AMAT
Live stock price [stckqut]AMAT[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $67.79
Target stock price (averages with growth) $75.67
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $35.26
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $67.3

 

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

Applied Materials, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment, services and software to the global semiconductor, display and related industries. The Company’s segments are Semiconductor Systems, which includes semiconductor capital equipment for etch, rapid thermal processing, deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, metrology and inspection, wafer packaging, and ion implantation; Applied Global Services, which provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity; Display and Adjacent Markets, which includes products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diodes, upgrades and roll-to-roll Web coating systems and other display technologies for televisions, personal computers, smart phones and other consumer-oriented devices, and Corporate and Other segment, which includes revenues from products, as well as costs of products sold for fabricating solar photovoltaic cells and modules, and certain operating expenses.

 

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

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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: $43.96
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.42
  • P/E: 18
  • Future EPS Calc: $6.02
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $108.39
  • Target stock price: $67.3

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AAPL Apple Inc. $158.5900 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $153.3500 Strong Buy or Hold
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $174.0100 Strong Buy or Hold
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $138.3300 Strong Buy or Hold
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $43.9600 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $992.2700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. $197.7600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AZPN Aspen Technology, Inc. $57.8500 Strong Buy or Hold
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd $158.8400 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings $114.7500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CBPO China Biologic Products Inc $95.7800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
COF Capital One Financial Corp. $85.1500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. $57.5500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. $138.0500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $195.4300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp $116.4800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. $77.8700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
FB Facebook Inc $171.9800 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
GOOGL Alphabet Inc $945.7500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $13.6500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc $67.0900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. $7.9400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HOG Harley-Davidson Inc $48.0600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HSKA Heska Corp $100.3900 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
HZO MarineMax Inc $15.5000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. $155.4900 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Inc $34.9000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $62.5100 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MCK McKesson Corporation $155.6800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. $39.0000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MET Metlife Inc $48.5300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MIDD Middleby Corp $129.9500 Strong Buy or Hold
MNST Monster Beverage Corporation $52.8700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. $62.8400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $181.3300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $172.3500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
PCLN Priceline Group Inc $2042.6400 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc $470.1000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc $150.7500 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $55.6300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. $194.9700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SUI Sun Communities Inc $88.1300 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $104.5000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
THRM Gentherm Inc $31.3500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. $177.3500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TRN Trinity Industries Inc $28.6900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
UA Under Armour Inc $16.6300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $248.8100 Very Concerned, may need to wait