The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
Strengths
With a P/E ratio at 11.02 for the current year and 8.88 for next year, earnings multiples are highly attractive compared with competitors.
The company has attractive valuation levels with a low EV/sales ratio compared with its peers.
The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
Weaknesses
According to Standard & Poor's' forecast, revenue growth prospects are expected to be very low for the next fiscal years.
As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
The company does not generate enough profits, which is an alarming weak point.
The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment
For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.