Posts by rollock

Looks like we're finally getting the cold front we've been waiting for

Most recently the stock has been trading at $85. Now that its the end of January and people are giving up on new years resolutions. I would expect the stock to climb for the rest of the year.

Throughout life things are going to happen. One day you may just be running around and boom... You end up in the hospital. It would be best to have some type of healthcare coverage to help cover the cost of major accidents and even minor upkeep. Enter United Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare plan providers in the United States. Most recently famous from the public execution of their CEO by Luigi and no not that one from super mario bros.

Overview

Quote

nitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a health care company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. The UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; health care coverage, and health and well-being services to individuals age 50 and older; Medicaid plans, children's health insurance and health care programs; and health care benefits products and services to state programs caring for the economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and those without the benefit of employer-funded health care coverage.

Financials

Interesting enough... When I posted a note about doing a write up on United Healthcare, the stock was at all time highs but most recently within the past six months. There's been a huge drop in the stock price around April of Last year. Looks like the stock has been attempting to recover. This could have to do with the media coverage of the Luigi trial but more than likely this could have to do with the swift change of leadership as a result. The PE is 18.11 and EPS is 19.20 with a stable beta of .43 @TOP.

This stock appears to be undervalued at the time of post and has room to climb to $400. 2026. Investor sentiment is that the stock is a BUY but is the entry point too high right now for some people?

One can take as many notes as they want but without action on the notes... They're nothing more than scribbles on paper. Applied Materials, Inc is one of those scribbles on my wall and the price paid for inaction? 2x return since September.

Overview

Quote

Applied Materials, Inc. provides materials engineering solutions, equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor and related industries in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through Semiconductor Systems and Applied Global Services (AGS) segments. The Semiconductor Systems segment includes semiconductor capital equipment to enable materials engineering steps, including etch, rapid thermal processing, deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, metrology and inspection, wafer packaging, and ion implantation.

Applied Materials, Inc Year to date the stock is up 24.5% which is something I'm noticing with semiconductor infrastructure specific stocks. Over the past 5 years it appears the stock is 196% return really starting to provide actual return in 2023.

The beta is 1.67. PE 36.90 @top. EPS 8.67.

As AI infrastructure continues to be built, equipment suppliers like Applied Materials seem well positioned to receive contracts to support infrastructure projects.

4 Foreign banks are being destroyed.