Summary

● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.


Strengths

● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.

● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.

● 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.

● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.

● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.

● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.

● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.

● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 18.5 EUR


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at EUR 23.61.

● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at EUR 23.79.

● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.

● The firm trades with high earnings multiples: 25.12 times its 2017 earnings per share.

● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.