Ratings Korea Gas Corporation

Equities

A036460

KR7036460004

End-of-day quote Korea S.E. 06:00:00 2024-04-17 pm EDT 5-day change 1st Jan Change
25,450 KRW +1.80% Intraday chart for Korea Gas Corporation -1.36% +3.04%

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

Strengths

  • The equity is one of the most attractive in the market with regard to earnings multiple-based valuation.
  • The company appears to be poorly valued given its net asset value.
  • The company has a low valuation given the cash flows generated by its activity.
  • The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
  • 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.
  • Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.

Weaknesses

  • According to Standard & Poor's' forecast, revenue growth prospects are expected to be very low for the next fiscal years.
  • The company's currently anticipated earnings per share (EPS) growth for the next few years is a notable weakness.
  • 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.
  • One of the major weak points of the company is its financial situation.
  • For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
  • The sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.
  • 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.
  • For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
  • The overall consensus opinion of analysts has deteriorated sharply over the past four months.
  • Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.
  • The price targets of various analysts who make up the consensus differ significantly. This reflects different assessments and/or a difficulty in valuing the company.
  • Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.

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Sector: Natural Gas Utilities

1st Jan change Capi. Investor Rating ESG Refinitiv
+3.04% 1.59B
B+
-1.15% 17.28B
C+
+24.98% 16.02B
C-
-7.61% 12.11B -
C+
+16.12% 9.88B
A-
+9.68% 8.55B
B-
+4.02% 7.49B
B+
-2.34% 6.92B
C
+5.93% 6.34B
B-
-10.77% 4.87B
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