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

● The current area is a good opportunity for investors interested in buying the stock in a mid or long-term perspective. Indeed, the share is moving closer to its lower bound at EUR 82.8 EUR in weekly data.

● The close medium term support offers good timing for purchasing the stock.

● The company returns high margins, thereby supporting business profitability.

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

● The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 0.63 times its sales.

● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 8.59 and 8.17 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2020 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.

● 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

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

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

● For the last four months, EPS estimates made by Thomson-Reuters analysts have been revised downwards.

● Below the resistance at 127.1 EUR, the stock shows a negative configuration when looking looking at the weekly chart.