Ratings Smart Metering Systems plc

Equities

SMS

GB00B4X1RC86

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Strengths

  • Growth progress expectations are rather promising. Indeed, sales are expected to rise sharply in the coming years.
  • Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
  • Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
  • Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
  • The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
  • 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.

Weaknesses

  • The company is in a hindered financial situation with significant debt and rather low EBITDA levels.
  • The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 74.38 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
  • The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
  • Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been revised negatively.
  • The price targets of analysts who cover the stock differ significantly. This implies difficulties in evaluating the company and its business.
  • Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.

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1st Jan change Capi. Investor Rating ESG Refinitiv
+1.28% 1.63B
C+
+10.38% 103B
C
+0.91% 30.28B
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+10.77% 21.76B
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-6.66% 17.71B
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+7.02% 14.26B
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-5.78% 12B
A
-4.64% 10.39B
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-11.34% 8.86B
B
-5.68% 7.97B
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Business Predictability

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