Strengths

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

● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.

● 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.

● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.

● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.

● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.

● The tendency within the weekly time frame is positive above the technical support level at 190.08 USD


Weaknesses

● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.

● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 33.05 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.

● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.

● For the past seven days, analysts have been lowering their EPS expectations for the company.

● 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.