Ratings Lotte Chemical Corporation

Equities

A011170

KR7011170008

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114,000 KRW +1.24% Intraday chart for Lotte Chemical Corporation +1.79% -25.59%

Summary

  • Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
  • From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental situation
  • The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.

Strengths

  • The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 229.99 times its sales.
  • The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
  • Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
  • Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
  • The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
  • Analyst opinion has improved significantly over the past four months.

Weaknesses

  • As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
  • The company has insufficient levels of profitability.
  • The group shows a rather high level of debt in proportion to its EBITDA.
  • For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
  • For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
  • The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
  • Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.
  • The price targets of analysts who cover the stock differ significantly. This implies difficulties in evaluating the company and its business.
  • Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.

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Chart ESG Refinitiv

Sector: Commodity Chemicals

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Financials

Sales growth
Earnings Growth
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EBITDA / Sales
Profitability
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Valuation

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Momentum

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Consensus

Analyst Opinion
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Business Predictability

Analyst Coverage
Divergence of Estimates
Divergence of analysts' opinions
Divergence of Target Price
Earnings quality

Environment

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Innovation
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Human Rights
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Governance

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Technical analysis

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