Summary: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

  • Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
  • From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental configuration.
  • According to MSCI, the company's ESG score for its industry is good.

Highlights: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

  • The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
  • Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
  • Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
  • 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: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

  • According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
  • The potential for earnings per share (EPS) growth in the coming years appears limited according to current analyst estimates.
  • One of the major weak points of the company is its financial situation.
  • The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 196.45 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
  • The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
  • In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.
  • For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
  • 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.
  • The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.

Ratings Chart: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

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ESG chart: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

Source: MSCI

Fundamentals (Composite) Global Valuation (Composite) Financial estimates revisions (Composite) Capi.($)
63.79B
217B
15.93B
3.37B
- 2.98B
2.97B
- 2.17B
1.83B
Average 38.73B
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