Summary

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

● For a short-term investment strategy, the company has poor fundamentals.


Strengths

● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.

● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.

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


Weaknesses

● The stock is close to a major daily resistance at USD 153.38, which should be gotten rid of so as to gain new appreciation potential.

● Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.

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

● With a 2018 P/E ratio at 25.56 times the estimated earnings, the company operates at rather significant levels of earnings multiples.

● The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.

● 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 past seven days, analysts have been lowering their EPS expectations for the company.

● For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.

● Below the resistance at 159.82 USD, the stock shows a negative configuration when looking looking at the weekly chart.