Ratings LANXESS AG

Equities

LXS

DE0005470405

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Summary

  • Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
  • From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental configuration.
  • The company's Refinitiv ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.

Strengths

  • The company has attractive valuation levels with a low EV/sales ratio compared with its peers.
  • The company appears to be poorly valued given its net asset value.

Weaknesses

  • As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
  • The company's currently anticipated earnings per share (EPS) growth for the next few years is a notable weakness.
  • The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
  • Low profitability weakens the company.
  • The group shows a rather high level of debt in proportion to its EBITDA.
  • The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
  • For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
  • The sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.
  • For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
  • For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
  • Over the past twelve months, analysts' consensus has been significantly revised downwards.
  • Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.
  • The price targets of various analysts who make up the consensus differ significantly. This reflects different assessments and/or a difficulty in valuing the company.
  • Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.

Ratings chart - Surperformance

Chart ESG Refinitiv

Sector: Diversified Chemicals

1st Jan change Capi. Investor Rating ESG Refinitiv
-7.40% 2.42B
A
+4.92% 78.85B
B
+4.20% 48.55B
A-
-3.93% 30.9B
C
+7.26% 17.68B
B
-10.43% 11.46B
B
+8.06% 11.41B
A-
+5.77% 9.93B
A-
-6.94% 9.77B -
+5.56% 9.12B
C-
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Financials

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Valuation

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Momentum

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Consensus

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Business Predictability

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Divergence of analysts' opinions
Divergence of Target Price
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Environment

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Technical analysis

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