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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $78.53
Target stock price (averages with growth) $105.64
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $71.76
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $79.72

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

MasTec, Inc., incorporated on April 8, 1998, is an infrastructure construction company. The Company operates primarily across North America through a range of industries. The Company operates through five segments: Communications, Oil and Gas, Electrical Transmission, Power Generation and Industrial, and Other. Its primary activities include the engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of communications, energy and utility infrastructure, such as wireless, wireline/fiber, satellite communications and customer fulfillment activities; petroleum and natural gas pipeline infrastructure; electrical utility transmission and distribution; conventional and renewable power generation, and industrial infrastructure. The Company offered its services primarily under the MasTec service mark and had operations across 510 locations as of December 31, 2016. It provides services under master service and other service agreements, which are generally multi-year agreements. It offers its service offerings in markets, including wireless services; wireline/fiber; customer fulfillment; natural gas and petroleum pipeline infrastructure; power generation, including renewables; and electrical transmission.

 

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

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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: $50.85
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.58
  • P/E: 20
  • Future EPS Calc: $6.41
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $128.39
  • Target stock price: $79.72

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Company name Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc
Stock ticker KNX
Live stock price [stckqut]KNX[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $59.19
Target stock price (averages with growth) $87.14
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $59.19
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $56.24

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

Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. is a publicly traded, American, truckload motor shipping carrier based in Phoenix, Arizona. Knight began transporting general commodities from Phoenix, Arizona, to Los Angeles, California. Starting with just a handful of trucks and one service center in Phoenix, Arizona, the company now runs a fleet of over 4,000 tractors and more than 8,700 trailers (dry, refrigerated, and brokerage). Revenues have grown from over 13 million in 1991 to over $866 million in 2011, with operating ratios at or near 80% year after year. They have grown from a few associates to more than 4,000, and from a family-owned business to a publicly held company trading on the New York Stock Exchange (KNX) in 1994.

Knight engages in the transportation of general commodities in the United States. It provides asset-based dry van truckload and temperature controlled truckload carrier services primarily to short to medium lengths of haul. The company also offers non-asset-based brokerage services. As of September 24, 2007, the company operates 27 regional dry van service centers, 6 regional temperature controlled service centers, 12 brokerage service centers, and 13 truck and trailer sales locations.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. I am adding Knight Swift to my Watch List.

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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: $38.29
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.55
  • P/E: 8
  • Future EPS Calc: $11.32
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $90.57
  • Target stock price: $56.23

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Company name Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC
Stock ticker JAZZ
Live stock price [stckqut]JAZZ[/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) $267.2
Target stock price (averages with growth) $365.5
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $248.27
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $259.41

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

Jazz Pharmaceuticals Public Limited Company, incorporated on March 15, 2005, is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on developing and commercializing products that address unmet medical needs. The Company has a diverse portfolio of products and product candidates with a focus in the areas of sleep and hematology/oncology. The Company’s lead marketed products include Xyrem (sodium oxybate oral solution) for the treatment of both cataplexy and excessive daytime sleepiness in patients with narcolepsy; Erwinaze for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and Defitelio (defibrotide) for the treatment of severe hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD).

 

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

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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: $172.94
  • Growth: 0.2
  • Current EPS (TTM): $7.3
  • P/E: 23
  • Future EPS Calc: $18.16
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $417.78
  • Target stock price: $259.41

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Company name Insperity Inc
Stock ticker NSP
Live stock price [stckqut]NSP[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $139.48
Target stock price (averages with growth) $197.55
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $138.03
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $136.94

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

Insperity, Inc. (Insperity), incorporated on August 9, 1995, provides a range of human resources (HR) and business solutions. The Company’s HR services offerings are provided through its Workforce Optimization and Workforce Synchronization solutions (together, its professional employer organization (PEO) HR Outsourcing solutions), which encompass a range of human resources functions, including payroll and employment administration, employee benefits, workers’ compensation, government compliance, performance management, and training and development services, along with its cloud-based human capital management platform, the Employee Service Center (ESC). In addition to its PEO HR Outsourcing solutions, the Company offers various other business performance solutions, including Human Capital Management, Payroll Services, Time and Attendance, Performance Management, Organizational Planning, Recruiting Services, Employment Screening, Financial and Expense Management Services, Retirement Services and Insurance Services, which are offered through desktop applications and cloud-based delivery models. These other products and services are offered separately, along with its PEO HR Outsourcing solutions or as a bundle, such as its Workforce Administration solution that provides a human capital management and payroll service solution.

The Company serves small and medium-sized businesses by providing its PEO HR Outsourcing solutions, which encompass a range of services. Both of its PEO HR Outsourcing solutions offer benefits and payroll administration; health and workers’ compensation insurance programs; personnel records management; employer liability management; assistance with government compliance; general HR advice, and access to the ESC for employees, managers and client owners. Its Workforce Optimization solution also provides additional services, including employee recruiting and support; employee performance management, and training and development services. The Company’s administrative functions encompass a range of processing and recordkeeping tasks, related to payroll administration and regulatory compliance, which include payroll processing, payroll tax deposits, quarterly payroll tax reporting, employee file maintenance, unemployment claims processing, and workers’ compensation claims reporting and monitoring.

 

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

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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: $96.25
  • Growth: 0.18
  • Current EPS (TTM): $2.41
  • P/E: 40
  • Future EPS Calc: $5.51
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $220.53
  • Target stock price: $136.93

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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $235.45
Target stock price (averages with growth) $328.94
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $223.44
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $227.48

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

Coherent, Inc., incorporated on January 11, 1989, is a photonics manufacturer. The Company is engaged in designing, manufacturing, servicing, and marketing of lasers and related accessories for a range of scientific, commercial and industrial applications. The Company operates through two segments: Specialty Lasers and Systems (SLS) and Commercial Lasers and Components (CLC). The Specialty Lasers and Systems segment develops and manufactures configurable products serving the microelectronics, scientific research and government programs, and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) components and instrumentation markets. The Commercial Lasers and Components segment focuses on higher volume products that are offered in set configurations. The product architectures are designed for exchange at the point of use such that substantially all product service and repairs are based upon advanced replacement and depot (that is factory) repair. CLC’s primary markets include materials processing, OEM components, and instrumentation and microelectronics.

The Company offers a portfolio of carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) lasers, diode laser systems and fiber lasers, laser cutting and machining tools, continuous wave (CW) solid state, diode lasers, diode-pumped solid-state lasers (DPSS), excimer lasers and ultraviolet (UV) beam delivery, ion lasers, three dimensional (3D) profiling lasers, tunable lasers, industrial short-pulse lasers and ultrafast lasers for science. These products address a range of applications, which are grouped into various markets, including microelectronics, materials processing, OEM components and instrumentation, and scientific research and government programs. The markets in the microelectronics industry that are supported by the Company include flat panel display (FPD) manufacturing, advanced packaging and interconnects (API) and semiconductor front-end (SEMI). It manufactures a range of DPSS lasers for different applications, including semiconductor inspection; advanced packaging and interconnects; laser pumping; spectroscopy; bio-agent detection; Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing; drug discovery; flow cytometry; forensics; computer-to-plate printing; entertainment lighting (display); medical; rapid prototyping and marking, welding and engraving.

 

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

 

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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: $152.44
  • Growth: 0.19
  • Current EPS (TTM): $8.08
  • P/E: 19
  • Future EPS Calc: $19.28
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $366.35
  • Target stock price: $227.47

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