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Buy The Travelers Co (TRV) – Very Attractive Rating

HIDDEN GEMS: 1. About $29 million in non-operating expenses (after-tax) cause reported earnings to be understated. 2. Our dis¬counted cash flow analy¬sis shows that TRV’s cur¬rent val¬u¬a¬tion (stock price of $55.49) implies that the company’s profits will decline by 30% and never grow again. 3. The company grew its economic earn¬ings by $827mm during its last fiscal year.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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JDS Uniphase Cp (JDSU) — free report for Ask Matt, Dangerous Rating

RED FLAG: Our analy­sis of the Finan­cial Foot­notes reveals: the com­pany has writ­ten off over $60bn in assets over the last twelve years. That is a big num­ber com­pared to the company’s mar­ket cap of roughly $2.2bn and its net assets of about $1.3bn. This results in economic earnings of -$5,346mm compared to Net Income of -$866mm during the last fiscal year. For details on what causes the dif­fer­ence between Eco­nomic Ver­sus Account­ing Prof­its, see Appen­dix 3 on page 10 of our free report on JDSU.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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McDonalds Corp (MCD) – free report for Ask Matt, Very Attractive Rating

HIDDEN GEM: Our detailed val­u­a­tion model shows that MCD grew its “eco­nomic” prof­its more than it account­ing prof­its dur­ing its last fis­cal year. Eco­nomic prof­its rose by $272mm while account­ing prof­its rose by $238mm. For details on what causes the dif­fer­ence between Eco­nomic Ver­sus Account­ing Prof­its, see Appen­dix 3 on page 10 of our free report on MCD.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO