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

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $92.08
Target stock price (averages with growth) $75.93
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $54.69
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $68.

 

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

Gilead Sciences, Inc., incorporated on June 22, 1987, is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes medicines in areas of unmet medical need. The Company’s portfolio of products and pipeline of investigational drugs includes treatments for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), liver diseases, cancer, inflammatory and respiratory diseases and cardiovascular conditions. Its products include AmBisome, Atripla, Cayston, Complera/Eviplera, Descovy, Emtriva, Epclusa, Genvoya, Harvoni, Hepsera, Letairis, Odefsey, Ranexa, Sovaldi, Stribild, Truvada, Tybost, Vemlidy, Viread, Vitekta, and Zydelig. The Company’s areas of focus include HIV; liver diseases, such as chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection; hematology/oncology; cardiovascular, and inflammation/respiratory diseases. The Company had operations in more than 30 countries, as of December 31, 2016. The Company, through its subsidiary Kite Pharma, Inc. (Kite), is engaged in the development of cancer immunotherapies. Kite is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system’s ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite’s pipeline includes axicabtagene ciloleucel, KTE-C19, Human anti-CD19 (2nd Gen), Humanized anti-CD19 Control CAR (3rd Gen), KITE-585 (anti-BCMA), KITE-796 (anti-CLL-1 Control CAR), MAGE A3/A6, KITE-718 (MAGE A3/A6), MAGE A3, HPV-16 E6 & E7, KITE-439 (HPV-16 E7), KRAS, SSX-2 and Neoantigens.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Gilead Sciences, 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 am removing Gilead from my Watch List as there are better investments in the market.

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How was this analysis of Gilead Sciences, 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: $68.02
  • Growth: 0.1
  • Current EPS (TTM): $6.8
  • P/E: 10
  • Future EPS Calc: $10.95
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $109.51
  • Target stock price: $68

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THRM Gentherm Inc 0.312%
TNET TriNet Group Inc 0.1815%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc -0.0909%
MCK McKesson Corporation -0.2207%
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. -0.2532%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc -0.2568%
COF Capital One Financial Corp. -0.286%
SCHW Charles Schwab Corp -0.4054%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. -0.4414%
IBP Installed Building Products Inc -0.6085%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. -0.6609%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. -0.6689%
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. -0.7553%
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) -0.7679%
MU Micron Technology, Inc. -0.8702%
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc -0.8911%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. -0.9377%
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp -0.9831%
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. -1.0149%
TMUS T-Mobile US Inc -1.0417%
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AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. -3.1338%
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LGIH LGI Homes Inc -5.7444%

Symbol Stock Price change today
GILD Gilead Sciences, Inc. 5.2593%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. 3.8054%
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation 3.5594%
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 3.474%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation 2.9532%
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2.513%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. 2.439%
ANET Arista Networks Inc 2.4353%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc 2.4198%
CEVA CEVA, Inc. 1.9814%
TNET TriNet Group Inc 1.9191%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated 1.9189%
THRM Gentherm Inc 1.9078%
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EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp 1.5209%
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MCK McKesson Corporation 0.8676%
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