Shares in ACS, Actividades de Construccion y Servicios, S.A. show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term. The timing to jump back on the rising trend seems good.
Summary
● In view of fundamental criteria, the company is among low performers as far as mid or long-term investment strategy is concerned.
● For a short-term investment strategy, the company has poor fundamentals.
Strengths
● The share is getting closer to its long-term support in weekly data, at EUR 33, which offers good timing for buyers.
● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 10.67 and 10.21 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2020 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
● This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.
ACS, Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A. is one of Spain's leading construction groups. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- construction of infrastructures and buildings (93.3%): civil engineering infrastructures (primarily highways, hydraulic constructions and railroads), non-residential and residential buildings;
- services (5.4%): cleaning, waste collection and treatment. Moreover, the group offers maintenance services of urban and industrial infrastructures, port and logistical services, and also social services and personal assistance services.
- industrial services (0.5%): development, construction, installation and maintenance of distribution networks of electricity, gas and water, industrial production systems, telecommunication networks, road traffic control systems, etc.;
- other (0.8%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Spain (9.4%), the United States (56.3%), Australia (20.2%), Canada (5.3%), Germany (2.4%) and others (6.4%).