● The company has poor fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● With a P/E ratio at 14.07 for the current year and 14.05 for next year, earnings multiples are highly attractive compared with competitors.
● The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
Weaknesses
● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
● The company is in a hindered financial situation with significant debt and rather low EBITDA levels.
● Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.
● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
● For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.
● Below the resistance at 38.5 EUR, the stock shows a negative configuration when looking looking at the weekly chart.