The price of Alten shares is range-bound. This phase will end sooner or later when volatility comes back.
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.
● The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.
Strengths
● 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 last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
● The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
Weaknesses
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
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Alten is European's No. 1 high-technology consulting and engineering group. The group's services are supplied to technical departments and IT system departments at large industrial, telecom, and utility companies. The activity is organized into 3 areas:
- technology engineering and consulting services: studies, design, and execution of research and development projects for new products/systems, consulting services, project management assistance, etc.;
- development of network architectures: design of terminals and network equipment, deployment and operation of networks;
- development of information systems: implementation or redesign of information systems and development of specific applications.
Net sales break down by market into automotive and rail (20.9%), trade/services/media/public sector (18.4%), aeronautics and space (14.8%), industries (9.4%), banking/finance/insurance (9.1%), life sciences (8.3%), energy (7.3%), defense/security/maritime (6.5%) and telecoms (5.4%),
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (31.9%), North America (11.9%), Germany (9%), Spain (9.1%), Asia-Pacific (7.9%), United Kingdom (7.7%) , Italy (7.7%), Benelux (5.6%), Scandinavia (4.4%), Eastern Europe (2.8%), Switzerland (1.5%) and others (0.5%).