The timing appears opportune to go long in shares of Milbon Co., Ltd. as we anticipate another pick-up in the underlying trend.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
Strengths
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
● Analyst opinion has improved significantly over the past four months.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 45.42 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
● The company's enterprise value to sales, at 5.4 times its current sales, is high.
● In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.
● The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
● The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
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Milbon Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of hair cosmetics, as well as the provision of related services. The Company is involved in the provision of permanent wave lotions, including thioglycolic acid permanent wave lotion, cysteine permanent wave lotion and anti-frizz straightening lotion; hair care products, including shampoos, hair conditioners, hair treatment, hair tonics, hair creams, liquid and foamy hairdressing products, setting lotions and hair sprays; hair colorants, encompassing oxidation hair dyes, hair dyeing products and hair bleaches, as well as other products, including hair rods, rollers, flat irons and schedule books, among others.