Ratings Macfarlane Group PLC

Equities

MACF

GB0005518872

Market Closed - London S.E. Other stock markets 11:35:07 2024-05-15 am EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
129 ^GBX	+4.03%		+2.38%	+10.26%

May. 07	FTSE 100 driven higher by US rates optimism	AN
May. 07	Macfarlane shares fall amid weak demand; 1st quarter sales down 9.5%	AN

Summary

The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.

Strengths

The company has attractive valuation levels with a low EV/sales ratio compared with its peers.
For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.

Weaknesses

With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
The company's earnings growth outlook lacks momentum and is a weakness.
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.
Revenue estimates are regularly revised downwards for the current and coming years.

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Sector: Non-Paper Containers & Packaging

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
MACFARLANE GROUP PLC	+10.26%	247M	C
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AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION	+12.05%	18.18B	A-
CROWN HOLDINGS, INC.	-8.45%	10.1B	B
CCL INDUSTRIES INC.	+20.00%	9.57B	C+
SEALED AIR CORPORATION	+6.27%	5.62B	B
SILGAN HOLDINGS INC.	+4.51%	5.08B	D+
VISCOFAN, S.A.	+14.74%	3.04B	B
GREIF, INC.	-2.13%	3.03B	B
PACTIV EVERGREEN INC.	-0.98%	2.42B	-

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