● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
Strengths
● The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
● 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.
● 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.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 33.79 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.
● In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.
● The valuation of the company is particularly high given the cash flows generated by its activity.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
● The overall consensus opinion of analysts has deteriorated sharply over the past four months.