McKesson Corporation ($MCK) Cautious Buy or Hold to $153 Confident Investor Rating: Fair

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $213.15
Target stock price (averages with growth) $164.65
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $77.51
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $163.44

 

The following company description is from Google Finance: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=mck

McKesson Corporation is a healthcare supply chain management solutions, retail pharmacy, community oncology and specialty care, and healthcare information technology company. The Company provides medicines, medical products and healthcare services by partnering with pharmaceutical manufacturers, providers, pharmacies, governments and other organizations in healthcare. It operates through two segments: McKesson Distribution Solutions and McKesson Technology Solutions. The distribution solutions segment distributes branded and generic pharmaceutical drugs and other healthcare-related products internationally and provides practice management, technology, clinical support and business solutions to community-based oncology and other specialty practices. Technology Solutions segment provides software and analytics, network solutions and technology-enabled services.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in McKesson Corporation as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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How was this analysis of McKesson 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: $155.95
  • Growth: 0.11
  • Current EPS (TTM): $21.11
  • P/E: 7.4
  • Future EPS Calc: $35.57
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $263.22
  • Target stock price: $163.44

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