The timing appears opportune to go long in shares of Compañía de Distribución Integral Logista Holdings, S.A. as we anticipate another pick-up in the underlying trend.
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.
Strengths
● The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
● The group's high margin levels account for strong profits.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 0.58 times its sales.
● This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● 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.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● For the last 4 months, the company has been enjoying highly positive EPS revisions, which were frequently and significantly raised.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
● The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
Weaknesses
● In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.
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Compañía de Distribución Integral Logista Holdings, S.A. specializes in the distribution, transportation and logistical services. The group's activity is primarily organized into five sectors:
- distribution of tobacco products;
- distribution of consumer goods: foods, beverages, stamps, phone cards, etc.;
- transportation services: primarily transportation of documents and merchandise;
- distribution of books, newspapers and magazines.
At the end of September 2023, the group served more than 200,000 points of sale (tobacco shops, pharmacies, perfume stores, bookstores, convenience stores, etc.) located in Europe through a fleet of vehicles, both company-owned and subcontracted.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Spain and Portugal (35.8%), Italy (34.1%) and France (30.1%).