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BLK
BlackRock Stock Forecast: Is BLK a Buy After GIP and HPS?
BlackRock's forward P/E is 17.2, well below its own five-year average, if a 49% earnings jump from two private-markets d…
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Airbnb’s Growth Sped Up. Its Profit Multiple Doubled Anyway.
Airbnb's latest quarter grew revenue 17%, nearly double the full-year pace, yet net income slipped and the stock trades …
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Booking Holdings: A Cash Machine at 15.6x Forward Earnings
Booking trades 24.7% below its high at 18.6 times earnings, but net income fell 8% while gross margin rose. I sort out w…
CMG
Chipotle Stock Forecast: Is CMG a Buy After the CEO Change?
Chipotle's same-store sales beat its own flat guidance in the first quarter under new CEO Scott Boatwright. I look at wh…
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Ten Questions Before Adding to a Stock That Already Ran
Ross Stores is up 59% from its 52-week low and trades at a 51% premium to peers. Before I add to a winner like that, I r…
PG
Procter & Gamble (PG): Cheaper Than Its Five-Year Average
PG trades near its 52-week low at 22 times earnings, well under its own five-year average, while its quant score just fe…
ITW
Illinois Tool Works (ITW): Five Analysts, One Hold Rating
Only five analysts cover this $77 billion industrial, and four of them say Hold. I look at why coverage is this thin and…
PEP
PepsiCo (PEP): What the Elliott Settlement Actually Changed
PepsiCo settled with activist investor Elliott Management in December, without giving up a board seat. Here is what the …
CB
Chubb (CB) at 12x Earnings: Why Analysts Are Split
Chubb trades right at its own five-year average multiple, yet only 39% of analysts rate it a buy. The wildfire quarter t…
IBM
IBM at 20 Times Earnings: Is Red Hat the New Growth Engine?
IBM trades at 20.3 times trailing earnings but 22.7 times forward, a gap that only closes if the consulting backlog behi…
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Earnings-Day Moves: What Seventeen Large-Cap Stocks Show
Microsoft jumped 15.5% on earnings day at 27.5 times earnings; Cintas moved 1.7% at over 40 times. Seventeen large caps …
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Texas Instruments: A 40x P/E That Drops to 28x Forward
TXN trades at 40 times trailing earnings but 28 times forward estimates. Revenue is already growing 23% a quarter. Here …