From a horizontal accumulation phase, the timing seems good to buy shares in Alten and to get ahead of a break-out on the upside of the congestion area.
Strengths
● The close medium term support offers good timing for purchasing the stock.
● The company has attractive valuation levels with a low EV/sales ratio compared with its peers.
Weaknesses
● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
● For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
● Analysts covering the stock have recently lowered their earnings forecast.
● For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
● For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
● Below the resistance at 83.65 EUR, the stock shows a negative configuration when looking looking at the weekly chart.
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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%).