The timing appears opportune to go long in shares of ExlService Holdings, Inc. 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.
● Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
Strengths
● The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
● 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.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 38.37 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
ExlService Holdings, Inc. is a data analytics and digital operations and solutions company. The Company partners with clients using a data and artificial intelligence (AI)-led approach. The Companyâs segments include Insurance, Healthcare, Analytics and Emerging Business. Insurance segment serves property and casualty insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, insurance brokers, reinsurers, annuity and retirement services and insurance technology companies. Healthcare segment primarily serves United States-based healthcare payers, providers and pharmacy benefit managers organizations. Emerging Business segment provides data and AI-led enterprise solutions in the areas of finance and accounting, customer experience management and revenue enhancement to clients primarily in the banking and capital markets, utilities, retail and consumer packaged goods, technology, media, and telecom, travel and leisure, manufacturing, transportation and logistics and business services industries.