Summary

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

● Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.


Strengths

● Growth progress expectations are rather promising. Indeed, sales are expected to rise sharply in the coming years.

● The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.

● 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.

● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.

● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.

● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.

● For the past twelve months, EPS forecast has been revised upwards.

● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.

● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.

● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.


Weaknesses

● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 33.44 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.

● The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.

● 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.