Asahi Kasei Corporation shares are reaching an interesting resistance zone. The current technical chart pattern suggests that a breach of this level could lead to new upside potential.
Summary
● The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
● The company's MSCI ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.
Strengths
● With a P/E ratio at 12.39 for the current year and 10.14 for next year, earnings multiples are highly attractive compared with competitors.
● With regards to fundamentals, the enterprise value to sales ratio is at 0.79 for the current period. Therefore, the company is undervalued.
● The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
● Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
Weaknesses
● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
● The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.
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Asahi Kasei Corp is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the materials business, housing business and healthcare business. The Company operates through three business segments. The Materials segment provides styrene monomer, acrylonitrile, polyethylene, automotive-related fibers, electronic materials, mixed signal large scale integrated circuits (LSI), hall elements, deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs), pharmaceutical and food additives and others. The Housing segment provides construction contracting, renovation and other housing-related business, as well as lightweight aerated concrete (ALC), insulation materials and others. The Healthcare segment provides medical drugs, hemodialysis and apheresis related equipment, virus removal filters, cardiopulmonary resuscitation-related products and others. The Company also provides plant engineering, environmental engineering, various research and information provision businesses, and personnel dispatch and introduction services.
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Investor
Investor
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Global
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