| Company name | Adobe Systems Incorporated |
| Stock ticker | ADBE |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]ADBE[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Good |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Good |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $271.16 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $362.76 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $246.41 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $267.12 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=adbe
Adobe Systems Incorporated is a software company. The Company offers products and services used by professionals, marketers, knowledge workers, application developers, enterprises and consumers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing and engaging with compelling content and experiences. It operates through three segments: Digital Media, Digital Marketing, and Print and Publishing. Its Digital Media segment provides tools and solutions that enable individuals, small and medium businesses and enterprises to create, publish, promote and monetize their digital content. Its Digital Marketing segment provides solutions and services for how digital advertising and marketing are created, managed, executed, measured and optimized. Its Print and Publishing segment addresses market opportunities ranging from the diverse authoring and publishing needs of technical and business publishing to its legacy type and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) printing businesses.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Adobe Systems Incorporated as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. I am adding Adobe Systems to my Watch List.
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How was this analysis of Adobe Systems Incorporated 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: $175.24
- Growth: 0.2
- Current EPS (TTM): $3.39
- P/E: 51
- Future EPS Calc: $8.43
- Future Stock Price Calc: $430.2
- Target stock price: $267.12
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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.