Ratings Southern Province Cement Company

Equities

3050

SA0007879501

End-of-day quote Saudi Arabian S.E. Other stock markets 06:00:00 2024-04-24 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
39.3 ^SAR	-0.88%		-3.68%	-7.64%

Mar. 24	Southern Province Cement Company Reports Earnings Results for the Full Year Ended December 31, 2023	CI
Mar. 17	Southern Province Cement Logs Lower FY23 Profit, Revenue	MT

Summary

Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental situation
The company has a poor ESG score according to Refinitiv, which ranks companies by sector.

Strengths

Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.

Weaknesses

As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The company's currently anticipated earnings per share (EPS) growth for the next few years is a notable weakness.
The firm trades with high earnings multiples: 26.11 times its 2024 earnings per share.
Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
The valuation of the company is particularly high given the cash flows generated by its activity.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
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 past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
Most analysts recommend that the stock should be sold or reduced.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.
Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.
The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.

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Sector: Construction Materials

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
SOUTHERN PROVINCE CEMENT COMPANY	-7.64%	1.47B	D-
HOLCIM LTD	+19.81%	48.58B	B
JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES PLC	-2.89%	15.52B	D+
SHREE CEMENT LIMITED	-15.75%	10.44B	B+
EAGLE MATERIALS INC.	+26.55%	8.84B	D
DANGOTE CEMENT PLC	+105.28%	8.27B	-
XINJIANGTIANSHAN CEMENT CO.,LTD	-0.30%	7.96B	C+
TAIWAN CEMENT CORP.	-8.75%	7.34B	B+
BUZZI S.P.A.	+23.60%	6.73B	B-
ACC LTD	+14.55%	5.7B	B

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