From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental configuration.
Strengths
According to sales estimates from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's, the company is among the best with regard to growth.
Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
Weaknesses
As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
Low profitability weakens the company.
The company's enterprise value to sales, at 4.42 times its current sales, is high.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
The sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.
For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised downwards significantly.
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.
The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.