Fnac Darty shares stand out with an interesting technical chart pattern displaying horizontal consolidation. One would assume that the current accumulation phase will cede eventually to an acceleration to the upside.
Summary
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● The stock, which is currently worth 2020 to 0.31 times its sales, is clearly overvalued in comparison with peers.
● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.
● 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.
Weaknesses
● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
● Low profitability weakens the company.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
● For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
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Fnac Darty is No. 1 in France for distribution of cultural and leisure products. The group's activity is organized into 4 divisions:
- distribution of cultural and IT products and consumer electronics: books, toys, gaming consoles, music CDs, telephones, IT products (computers, tablets, peripherals, software, etc.), hi-fi products (televisions, stereo systems, DVD readers and recorders), cameras and video recorders, MP3 players, DVD films, household appliances, etc. The company operates through a network of stores (owned nearly 1,000 points of sale as of the end of 2023 worldwide) and via the Internet;
- sales of photo developing services;
- distribution of event tickets: concerts, theater productions, operas, expositions, circuses, museums, etc.;
- travel sales (Fnac Voyages).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France and Switzerland (82.7%), Iberian Peninsula (9.3%), Belgium and Luxembourg (8%).