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 Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $64.26
Target stock price (averages with growth) $83.08
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $86.44
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $97.45

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/ayi

Acuity Brands, Inc., incorporated on September 20, 2007, 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’s lighting and building management solutions vary from individual devices to intelligent network systems. Its individual devices include luminaires, lighting controls, lighting components, controllers for various building systems (including heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, shades and access control), power supplies and prismatic skylights. The Company’s lighting and building management solutions are marketed under various brand names, including Lithonia Lighting, Holophane, Peerless, Gotham, Mark Architectural Lighting, Winona Lighting, Juno, Indy, AccuLite, Aculux, Healthcare Lighting, Hydrel, American Electric Lighting, Carandini, Antique Street Lamps, Sunoptics, RELOC Wiring Solutions, eldoLED, Distech Controls and Acuity Controls. Through its subsidiary, IOTA Engineering, L.L.C., the Company provides emergency lighting products and power equipment.

 

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 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. I believe there are more deserving companies on the market, so I am deleting Acuity from my Watch List.

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 Acuity Brands, 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: $114.34
  • Growth: 0.06
  • Current EPS (TTM): $7.33
  • P/E: 16
  • Future EPS Calc: $9.8
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $156.94
  • Target stock price: $97.45

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Company name Arista Networks Inc
Stock ticker ANET
Live stock price [stckqut]ANET[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $401.44
Target stock price (averages with growth) $591.
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $401.44
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $403.72

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/anet

Arista Networks, Inc., incorporated on December 2, 2011, is a supplier of cloud networking solutions that use software innovations to address the needs of Internet companies, cloud service providers and data centers for enterprise support. The Company develops, markets and sells cloud networking solutions, which consist of its Gigabit Ethernet switches and related software. The Company’s cloud networking solutions consist of its Extensible Operating System (EOS), a set of network applications and its Ethernet switching and routing platforms. The programmability of EOS has allowed the Company to create a set of software applications that address the requirements of cloud networking, including workflow automation, network visibility, and analytics, and has also allowed it to integrate with a range of third-party applications for virtualization, management, automation, orchestration and network services. EOS supports cloud and virtualization solutions, including VMware NSX, Microsoft System Center, OpenStack and other cloud management frameworks.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Arista Networks Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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 Arista Networks 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: $259.91
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.7
  • P/E: 39
  • Future EPS Calc: $16.67
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $650.19
  • Target stock price: $403.72

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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) $2475.45
Target stock price (averages with growth) $3644.31
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $2475.45
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $2486.50

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/amzn

Amazon.com, Inc., incorporated on May 28, 1996, offers a range of products and services through its Web sites. The Company operates through three segments: North America, International and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Company’s products include merchandise and content that it purchases for resale from vendors and those offered by third-party sellers. It also manufactures and sells electronic devices. The Company, through its subsidiary, Whole Foods Market, Inc., offers healthy and organic food and staples across its stores. The Company also offers a range of products like whole trade bananas, organic avocados, organic large brown eggs, organic responsibly-farmed salmon and tilapia, organic baby kale and baby lettuce, animal-welfare-rated 85% lean ground beef, creamy and crunchy almond butter, organic gala and fuji apples, organic rotisserie chicken.

The Company’s Whole Foods Market healthy and private label products include 365 Everyday Value, Whole Foods Market, Whole Paws and Whole Catch available through Amazon.com, AmazonFresh, Prime Pantry and Prime Now. The Company also offers Amazon Lockers that is available in select Whole Foods Market stores. Customers can have products shipped from www.Amazon.com to their local Whole Foods Market store for pick up or send returns back to Amazon during a trip to the store.

 

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 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.

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: $1602.91
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.34
  • P/E: 44
  • Future EPS Calc: $12.75
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $561.08
  • Target stock price: $348.39

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Company name UnitedHealth Group Inc
Stock ticker UNH
Live stock price [stckqut]UNH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $270.04
Target stock price (averages with growth) $372.09
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $289.64
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $557.21

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/unh

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, incorporated on July 1, 2015, is a health and well-being company. The Company operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, OptumHealth, OptumInsight, and OptumRx. The Company conducts its operations through two business platforms: health benefits operating under UnitedHealthcare and health services operating under Optum. UnitedHealthcare provides healthcare benefits to an array of customers and markets, and includes UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, UnitedHealthcare Community & State, and UnitedHealthcare Global businesses. Optum is a health services business serving the healthcare marketplace, including payers, care providers, employers, governments, life sciences companies and consumers, through its OptumHealth, OptumInsight and OptumRx businesses.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in UnitedHealth Group Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. I will be adding UNH to my Watch List.

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 UnitedHealth Group 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: $238.28
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $10.14
  • P/E: 44
  • Future EPS Calc: $20.39
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $897.38
  • Target stock price: $557.2

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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 Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $84.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $122.05
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $82.9
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $197.28

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/amat

Applied Materials, Inc. (Applied), incorporated on March 18, 1987, provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the global semiconductor, display and related industries. The Company’s segments are Semiconductor Systems; Applied Global Services; Display and Adjacent Markets, and Corporate and Other. The Semiconductor Systems segment includes semiconductor capital equipment for etching, rapid thermal processing, deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, metrology and inspection, wafer packaging and ion implantation. Its Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity, including spares, upgrades, services, certain remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display and solar products. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment includes products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays (LCDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), upgrades and roll-to-roll Web coating systems and other display technologies for televisions, personal computers, smartphones and other consumer-oriented devices. The Corporate and Other segment 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. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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 Applied Materials, Inc. calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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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: $54.84
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.59
  • P/E: 44
  • Future EPS Calc: $7.22
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $317.71
  • Target stock price: $197.27

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