Ratings Champion Iron Limited

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Market Closed - Australian S.E. Other stock markets 07:10:05 26/06/2024 BST			5-day change	1st Jan Change
6.4 ^AUD	+0.16%		-2.14%	-23.72%

06-13	Macquarie Upgrades Champion Iron to Outperform From Neutral; Price Target is AU$7.90	MT
06-05	Champion Iron Brief: B.Riley Says DRPF Project "Advancing As Planned" with an expected completion in Second Half 2025; Estimates Payback of 5 years	MT

Summary

The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.

Strengths

Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
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.
Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 8.05 and 8.6 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2026 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
The company has a low valuation given the cash flows generated by its activity.
Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
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.
The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.

Weaknesses

For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
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.
The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.

Ratings chart - Surperformance

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Sector: Iron & Steel

	1st Jan change	Capi.	Investor Rating	ESG Refinitiv
CHAMPION IRON LIMITED	-23.72%	2.2B		B+
NUCOR CORPORATION	-12.96%	36.32B		B-
TATA STEEL LIMITED	+23.80%	26.29B		C+
POSCO HOLDINGS INC.	-26.73%	19.99B		B
STEEL DYNAMICS, INC.	+4.65%	19.42B		B
NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION	+4.80%	19.82B		B
ARCELORMITTAL	-15.37%	19.19B		C+
JFE HOLDINGS, INC.	+5.39%	9.24B		B
UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION	-27.63%	7.92B		B
SEVERSTAL	-.--%	7.87B	-	B

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