Summary

● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.

● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.


Strengths

● Analysts expect a sharply increasing business volume for the group, with high growth rates in the coming years.

● 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.

● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.

● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.

● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.

● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 174.7 EUR


Weaknesses

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

● With an expected P/E ratio at 63.22 and 54.28 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.

● The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.

● Most analysts agree on a negative opinion with regard to the stock. Indeed, the average consensus issues recommendations to underperform or sell.

● The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.