The return of higher trading volumes and volatility could reflect theoretically the starting point of the return of a new upward move for shares in Imperial Brands PLC. The upward movement can be expected to continue.
Summary
● The company's Refinitiv ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.
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.
● With a P/E ratio at 9.19 for the current year and 8.4 for next year, earnings multiples are highly attractive compared with competitors.
● Given the positive cash flows generated by its business, the company's valuation level is an asset.
● The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
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.
● One of the major weak points of the company is its financial situation.
● The price targets of various analysts who make up the consensus differ significantly. This reflects different assessments and/or a difficulty in valuing the company.
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Imperial Brands PLC is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of tobacco products. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- manufacture and sale of traditional and new generation tobacco products (66.7%): cigarettes (brands Davidoff, JPS, Parker & Simpson, Fine, West, Lambert & Butler, Winston, News, Bastos, Kool, Gauloises, L&B, Knox, etc.), cigars (Backwoods and Dutch Masters brands), electronic cigarettes (Blu brand), heated tobaccos (Pulze brand), sucking tobaccos (Skruf brand), rolling papers (No. 1 worldwide; Rizla brand);
- distribution of tobacco products (33.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United Kingdom (12.1%), Germany (12.7%), the United States (11.3%), France (10.6%), and other (53.3%).