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Company name HCP, Inc.
Stock ticker HCP
Live stock price [stckqut]HCP[/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) $54.86
Target stock price (averages with growth) $65.59
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $57.21
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $39.3

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=hcp

HCP, Inc. (HCP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company invests primarily in real estate serving the healthcare industry in the United States. HCP acquires, develops, leases, manages and disposes of healthcare real estate and provides financing to healthcare providers. The Company’s portfolio consists of investments in the five healthcare segments: senior housing, life science, medical office, post-acute/skilled nursing and hospital. The Company makes investments within its healthcare segments using the five investment products: properties under lease, debt investments, developments and redevelopments, investment management and RIDEA, which represents investments in senior housing operations. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company sold three senior housing facilities. In October 2012, Emeritus Corp announced that HCP closed the acquisition of 127 of the 133 senior housing communities.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in HCP, Inc.

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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: $35.92

Growth: 0.12

Current EPS (TTM): $1.89

P/E: 19

Future EPS Calc: $3.33

Future Stock Price Calc: $63.28

Target stock price: $39.29

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Company name Hudson Technologies, Inc.
Stock ticker HDSN
Live stock price [stckqut]HDSN[/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) $9.28
Target stock price (averages with growth) $10.23
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $4.61
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $8.53

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=hdsn

Hudson Technologies, Inc. is a refrigerant services company. The Company’s products and services are primarily used in commercial air conditioning, industrial processing and refrigeration systems, and include refrigerant and industrial gas sales, refrigerant management services consisting primarily of reclamation of refrigerants and RefrigerantSide Services performed at a customer’s site, consisting of system decontamination to remove moisture, oils and other contaminants. In addition, the Company’s SmartEnergy OPS service is a Web-based real time continuous monitoring service applicable to a facility’s refrigeration systems and other energy systems. The Company’s Chiller Chemistry and Chill Smart services are also predictive and diagnostic service offerings. The Company sells reclaimed and virgin (new) refrigerants to a variety of customers in various segments of the air conditioning and refrigeration industry, and sells industrial gases to a variety of industry segments.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Hudson Technologies, Inc.

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How was this analysis of Hudson Technologies, 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: $6.07
  • Growth: 0.19
  • Current EPS (TTM): $0.32
  • P/E: 18
  • Future EPS Calc: $0.76
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $13.74
  • Target stock price: $8.53

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Company name Texas Roadhouse Inc
Stock ticker TXRH
Live stock price [stckqut]TXRH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $27.92
Target stock price (averages with growth) $39.61
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $36.51
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $27.69

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=txrh

Texas Roadhouse, Inc. (Texas Roadhouse) is a full-service restaurant chain. The Company offers an assortment of specially seasoned and aged steaks hand-cut daily on the premises and cooked to orders over open gas-fired grills. In addition to steaks, the Company also offers its guests a selection of ribs, fish, seafood, chicken, pork chops, pulled pork and vegetable plates, and an assortment of hamburgers, salads and sandwiches. As of December 25, 2012, the Company owned and operated 320 restaurants and franchised or licensed an additional 72 restaurants. Of the 320 restaurants the Company owned and operated at the end of 2012, 318 operated as Texas Roadhouse restaurants, while two operated under the name of Aspen Creek.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in this stock as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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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: $25.38

Growth: 0.12

Current EPS (TTM): $1.1

P/E: 23

Future EPS Calc: $1.93

Future Stock Price Calc: $44.58

Target stock price: $27.68

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