The return of higher trading volumes and volatility could reflect theoretically the starting point of the return of a new upward move for shares in HEXAOM. The upward movement can be expected to continue.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● The company is one of the most undervalued, with an "enterprise value to sales" ratio at 0.19 for the 2020 fiscal year.
● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 9.78 and 8.08 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2021 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
Weaknesses
● The company sustains low margins.
● Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.
● 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 few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.
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HEXAOM is France's No. 1 builder of individual homes in various areas (land purchased separately by the customer). Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- construction, renovation and sales of individual and collective housing (98.4%): notably under the national names of Maisons France Confort, Maisons Balency and Maisons de Manon and the regional names of Maisons de l'Avenir, OC Résidences, Maisons Berval, Maisons Horizon, Azur & Construction and Maisons Côte Atlantique. Moreover, the group offers small-plan sales operations (from 2 to 20 houses for which the transfer of ownership occurs gradually by accession as work advances);
- services (1.6%): moving, tele-surveillance, interior and exterior decorating, etc.
At the end of 2023, homes were being marketed through more than 500 commercial offices located in France.