Ratings Mpact Limited

Equities

MPT

ZAE000156501

End-of-day quote Johannesburg S.E. Other stock markets 06:00:00 2024-04-25 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
25.61 ^ZAR	-0.54%		-1.99%	-14.00%

Mar. 08	Mpact Limited Reports Earnings Results for the Full Year Ended December 31, 2023	CI
Mar. 08	Mpact Limited Declares Cash Dividend for the Year Ended 31 December 2023, Payable on April 8, 2024	CI

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

The equity is one of the most attractive in the market with regard to earnings multiple-based valuation.
The company is one of the most undervalued, with an "enterprise value to sales" ratio at 0.5 for the 2024 fiscal year.
The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
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.
Analyst opinion has improved significantly over the past four months.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.

Weaknesses

For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.
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 four months, analysts' average price target has been revised downwards significantly.

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Sector: Paper Packaging

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
MPACT LIMITED	-14.00%	201M	B-
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SIG GROUP AG	-2.74%	7.86B	A
DS SMITH PLC	+10.64%	5.84B	B+

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