Summary

● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.

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


Strengths

● Graphically speaking, the timing seems perfect for purchasing the stock close to the EUR 51.6 support.

● The group's high margin levels account for strong profits.

● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Thomson-Reuters are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.

● The equity is one of the most attractive in the market with regard to earnings multiple-based valuation.

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

● Over the last seven days, analysts have been revising upwards their EPS estimates for the company.

● For several months, analysts have been revising their EPS estimates roughly upwards.

● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.

● 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.


Weaknesses

● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.

● The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.

● The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.

● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.

● The underlying tendency is negative on the weekly chart below the resistance at 63.6 EUR