RPC Group PLC shares are trading close to a major technical resistance, which, if broken, could yield new upside potential and an increase in volatility. This scenario can be anticipated.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● The prospective high growth for the next fiscal years is among the main assets of the company
● Growth remains a strong point in this company. In their sales forecast, analysts sound optimistic with regard to sales prospects.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the last 4 months, the company has been enjoying highly positive EPS revisions, which were frequently and significantly raised.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● The tendency within the weekly time frame is positive above the technical support level at 825 GBp
Weaknesses
● The share is close to its long-term resistance in weekly data. Therefore, the potential should be limited. However, a further bullish movement when crossing this resistance will be a positive signal.
● The stock is currently in contact with a medium-term resistance that must be gotten rid of so as to resume the upward trend.
● The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
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RPC Group is specialized in the design, production and marketing of plastic packaging products intended for the agri-food, automobile and pharmaceutical industries. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- plastic packaging products (84.3%): injection-moulded products, pressure-moulded products (bottles, flasks, etc.) and thermoformed products (packaging used for packaging of frozen foods, dairy products, margarines, etc.);
- other (15.7%).
At the end of March 2018, the group possessed 189 production sites throughout the world.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: the United Kingdom (23.6%), Germany (15.5%), France (10.3%), Europe (28.4%), North America (13.1%) and other (9.1%).