Summary

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


Strengths

● According to sales estimates from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's, the company is among the best with regard to growth.

● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.

● 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.

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

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

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

● The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.

● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 250 CHF


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at CHF 406.

● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.

● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 71.32 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.

● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.