The technical chart pattern of Essity AB shares shows signs of a reversal that argue in favor of a return to a positive outlook over the medium term.
Strengths
● 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.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses
● The share is close to its long-term resistance in weekly data. Therefore, the potential should be limited. However, a further bullish movement when crossing this resistance will be a positive signal.
● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
● 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.
● The underlying tendency is negative on the weekly chart below the resistance at 284.1 SEK
Essity AB is one of the world's leading manufacturers of hygiene products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- human care products (40.3%): incontinence products (Tena), feminine protection products (Libresse, Bodyform, Nana, Nuvenia, Saba, Nosotras, Donnasept, etc.), diapers (Libero, Up & Go, Libero-Peaudouce, Drypers, Pequenin, etc.), compresses and bandages.
- paper hygiene products (32.6%): paper towels, toilet paper, handkerchiefs, wipes, etc. sold under Tempo, Colhogar, Cozy, Cushelle, Danke, Delica, Demak Up, Favorita, Flen, Lotus, Lovly, Okay, Plenty, Regio and Zewa brands;
- professional hygiene products (26.8%): including toilet paper, handkerchiefs, hand lotions and hand soaps, hand sanitizers, as well as cleaning and wiping products;
- other (0.3%).
At the end of 2023, the group operated around 70 production sites in the world.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Europe (60.3%), North America (17.4%), Latin America (17.1%), Asia (1.6%), and other (3.6%).