AutoCanada Inc. shares are trading close to a major resistance level. Given the share's technical chart pattern, investors could anticipate that this resistance zone will be broken which could lead to new upside potential.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● The stock, which is currently worth 2021 to 0.38 times its sales, is clearly overvalued in comparison with peers.
● Over the last 4 months, analysts have significantly revised upwards the company's estimated sales.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the past twelve months, EPS forecast has been revised upwards.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
● Within the weekly time frame the stock shows a bullish technical configuration above the support level at 22.34 CAD
Weaknesses
● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at CAD 49.23.
● The stock is close to a major daily resistance at CAD 50.02, which should be gotten rid of so as to gain new appreciation potential.
● The company has insufficient levels of profitability.
● Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.
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AutoCanada Inc. is a Canada-based multi-location franchised automobile dealership company. The Company offers a diversified range of automotive products and services, including new vehicles, used vehicles, vehicle leasing, vehicle parts, vehicle maintenance and collision repair services, extended service contracts, vehicle protection products, after-market products and auction services. The Company also arranges financing and insurance for vehicles purchased by its customers through third-party finance and insurance sources. Its segments include Canadian Operations and U.S. Operations. It operates 83 franchised dealerships, comprising of 28 brands, in eight provinces in Canada as well as a group in Illinois, United States of America. It sells Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, FIAT, Alfa Romeo, Chevrolet, GMC, Buick, Cadillac, Ford, Infiniti, Nissan, Hyundai, Subaru, Audi, Volkswagen, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, MINI, Volvo, Toyota, Lincoln, Acura, and Honda brands.