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Company name Symantec Corporation
Stock ticker SYMC
Live stock price [stckqut]SYMC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

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

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $25.7
Target stock price (averages with growth) $38.45
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $41.37
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $23.63

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

Symantec Corporation, is a security, backup and availability solutions. The Company’s products and services protect people and information in any digital environment from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems. The Company’s software and services protect against advanced threats independent of the device and environment in which information is used or stored. The Company operated in five segments: Consumer, Security and Compliance, Storage and Server Management, Services, and Other. Effective May 28, 2014, Symantec Corp acquired NitroDesk Inc, a Bellevue-based developer of email security software.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Symantec Corporation 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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How was this analysis of Symantec 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: $24.04
  • Growth: 0.1
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.39
  • P/E: 17
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.23
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $38.05
  • Target stock price: $23.63

I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]