Summary

● From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental configuration.


Strengths

● According to sales estimates from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's, the company is among the best with regard to growth.

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

● Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.


Weaknesses

● As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.

● The company has insufficient levels of profitability.

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

● The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.

● 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 year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.

● For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.

● Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.