Ratings Cascades Inc.

Equities

CAS

CA1469001053

Delayed Toronto S.E. Other stock markets 12:56:10 2024-05-14 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
10.25 ^CAD	+1.89%		+7.11%	-19.48%

May. 10	Declaration of Voting Results by Cascades Inc	CI
May. 09	Transcript : Cascades Inc. - Shareholder/Analyst Call

Summary

The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.

Strengths

The company is one of the most undervalued, with an "enterprise value to sales" ratio at 0.6 for the 2024 fiscal year.
The company appears to be poorly valued given its net asset value.
The company has a low valuation given the cash flows generated by its activity.
The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.

Weaknesses

As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
The company has insufficient levels of profitability.
The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment
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 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.
Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.

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