Summary

● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.


Strengths

● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.

● The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.

● For the last 4 months, the company has been enjoying highly positive EPS revisions, which were frequently and significantly raised.

● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.

● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.

● The tendency within the weekly time frame is positive above the technical support level at 375.2 EUR


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at EUR 493.7.

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

● The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.

● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.

● With a 2018 P/E ratio at 24.71 times the estimated earnings, the company operates at rather significant levels of earnings multiples.

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

● 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.