Summary

● In view of fundamental criteria, the company is among low performers as far as mid or long-term investment strategy is concerned.

● The company has poor fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.


Strengths

● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.

● This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at EUR 22.46.

● The stock is close to a major daily resistance at EUR 22.21, which should be gotten rid of so as to gain new appreciation potential.

● According to Thomson-Reuters' forecast, revenue growth prospects are expected to be very low for the next fiscal years.

● The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment

● 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.

● With a 2016 P/E ratio at 26.59 times the estimated earnings, the company operates at rather significant levels of earnings multiples.

● For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.

● Analysts covering the stock have recently lowered their earnings forecast.

● For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.

● For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.

● The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.