Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
The company's Refinitiv ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.
Strengths
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
As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The company's earnings growth outlook lacks momentum and is a weakness.
The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
The company sustains low margins.
The group shows a rather high level of debt in proportion to its EBITDA.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
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 four months, EPS estimates made by Standard & Poor's analysts have been revised downwards.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.