Daily Stock Analysis: NetApp
A new portfolio of stocks I started building September 8, at a one stock per week pace for the next year, is named Vista. I will select its seventh stock this coming weekend. Vista is the sixth portfolio I've built (at a one dividend dog per-week pace) since 2014. Six portfolios = VI for Vista!
Vista is planned to Look Ahead for Outstanding, Proven, Dividend Winners. (Like Aristocrats)
Today we'll review the fourth of five technology sector stock candidates vying to be that seventh selection for the Vista portfolio.
My subject today is a large-cap computer hardware company, NetApp Inc. Its trading ticker symbol is NTAP. This is my first report on NetApp Inc for this Vista dog of the week portfolio. Previously I reviewed it for the Volio portfolio.
NetApp is a leading provider of enterprise data management and storage solutions.
The company's three operating business units are products, software maintenance, and hardware maintenance.
NetApp transitioned from a data center storage firm to a company with software data management solutions for multi-cloud environments.
The California-headquartered company sells globally and has approximately 10,000 employees.
It serves the energy, financial services, government, high technology, internet, life sciences, healthcare services, manufacturing, media, entertainment, animation, video postproduction, and telecommunications through a direct sales force and an ecosystem of partners.
NetApp has a strategic partnership with Fujitsu for data management infrastructure.
NetApp, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
I use three key data points to gauge dividend equities or funds like NetApp Inc:
(1) Price
(2) Dividends
(3) Returns
Those three basic keys best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money.
NTAP Price
NetApp's price per share closed at $46.80 yesterday. A year ago its price was $55.18. Price fell $8.38 or just about 15.2% last year.
If NetApp's stock trades in the range of $30 to $55 this next year, its recent $46.80 price might rise by $3.20 to reach $50.00 by October 22, 2021.
NTAP Dividends
NetApp's most recently declared quarterly dividend was $0.48 payable October 28th. Dividends are estimated to total $1.92 per share annually and yield 4.10% at yesterday's $46.80 closing price.
NTAP Gains?
Adding the $1.92 annual anticipated dividend to my $3.20 optimistic estimate of NetApp's price upside shows a $5.12 potential gross gain, per share, to be reduced by any costs to trade the shares.
Put little under $1,000.00 today in NetApp Inc at $46.80, and we would buy 20 shares of NTAP stock.
A $10 broker fee paid half at purchase and half at sale would cost us $0.50 per share.
Subtract that $0.50 brokerage cost from my estimated $5.12 gross gain per share results in a net gain of $4.62 X 20 shares = $92.40 for a 9.25% net gain on a $936.00 investment.
So it goes that NetApp Inc shows a possible 9.25% net gain including a 4.10% dividend yield. It could be more, it could be less.
All of the estimates above are speculation based on the past history of NetApp Inc. Only time and money invested in this stock will determine its worth.
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