Adobe Inc.: The technical configuration is positive
Published on 07/31/2017
at 01:35 pm BST
Share
BUY
Target price hit
Entry price
Target
Stop-loss
Potential
US$146.36
US$156
US$141.9
+6.59%
Shares in Adobe Systems show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term, which suggests that the rising trend should be followed.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
Strengths
● Analysts expect a sharply increasing business volume for the group, with high growth rates in the coming years.
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● Within the weekly time frame the stock shows a bullish technical configuration above the support level at 119.31 USD
Weaknesses
● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at USD 149.52.
● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at USD 149.94.
● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 46.92 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
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Adobe Inc. specializes in the development of software for content design, publication and visual distribution. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- digital media software (74.3%): primarily creation, illustration, viewing, conversion and digital contents broadcasting;
- online marketing and business process management software (24.7%): web publishing, information security, business resources planning, document production management, application automation software, etc.;
- other (1%): software for high-definition printing, online training, etc.
Net sales break down by source of income between sales of subscriptions (96.4%), sales of services (2.3%; consulting, training, maintenance and technical support services) and sales of products (1.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (52.7%), Americas (6.7%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (26.5%) and Asia/Pacific (14.1%).
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