Shares in CIE Automotive, S.A. show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term. The timing to jump back on the rising trend seems good.
Summary
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● The tendency within the weekly time frame is positive above the technical support level at 16.1 EUR
Weaknesses
● The share is close to its long-term resistance in weekly data. Therefore, the potential should be limited. However, a further bullish movement when crossing this resistance will be a positive signal.
● The stock is currently in contact with a medium-term resistance that must be gotten rid of so as to resume the upward trend.
● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
● The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment
● For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
● For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
● The three month average target prices set by analysts do not offer high potential in comparison with the current prices.
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CIE Automotive SA is a Spain-based company engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the production of biofuels, as well as in the supply of components and subassemblies for the automotive industry. The Company is also involved in the Information Technology (IT) sector, with the provision of technological solutions for the healthcare, education, sustainability, transport and communications sectors. The Company is a parent of Grupo CIE Automotive, a group which comprises a number of controlled entities with operations established in Spain, Portugal, France, Lithuania, Morocco, Czech Republic, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, China, Russia, Guatemala and Mexico, among others. The Company has such subsidiaries as Global Dominion Access SA, CIE Inversiones e Inmuebles Sociedad Limitada and CIE Berriz Sociedad Limitada, among others. In February 2014, the Company acquired a 50% stake in RS Automotive NV owned by VEP Fund I Holding Cooperatief WA.
CIE AUTOMOTIVE, S.A. 
