Lam Research Corporation ($LRCX) Possible Buy to $245 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Lam Research Corporation
Stock ticker LRCX
Live stock price [stckqut]LRCX[/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) $264.96
Target stock price (averages with growth) $390.07
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $264.96
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $271.99

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

Lam Research Corporation, incorporated on October 8, 1989, is a supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry. The Company designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes, and services semiconductor processing systems that are used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs). The Company operates through manufacturing and servicing of wafer processing semiconductor manufacturing equipment segment. The Company’s products are designed to enable its customers to build a range of devices that are used in a range of electronic products, including cell phones, tablets, computers, storage devices and networking equipment. The Company’s customer base includes semiconductor memory, foundry and integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) that make products, such as dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), negative-AND (NAND) memory and logic devices. The Company offers a portfolio of products that are used in several areas of the semiconductor manufacturing process flow, including thin film deposition, plasma etch and single-wafer clean. The Company also offers a range of services, including customer service, spares, upgrades, and refurbishment of its deposition, etch and clean products. The Company also provides refurbished legacy products.

 

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

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How was this analysis of Lam Research 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: $171.8
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $14.67
  • P/E: 12
  • Future EPS Calc: $36.5
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $438.04
  • Target stock price: $271.99

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