Summary

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


Strengths

● Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.

● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.

● The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.

● 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.


Weaknesses

● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 35.56 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.

● 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.

● The valuation of the company is particularly high 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.

● For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.

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

● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised downwards significantly.

● The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.