The timing appears opportune to go long in shares of Fuso Chemical Co.,Ltd. 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.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Growth remains a strong point in this company. In their sales forecast, analysts sound optimistic with regard to sales prospects.
● 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.
● 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 is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
● The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' consensus has been significantly revised downwards.
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FUSO CHEMICAL CO., LTD. is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the life science business and the electronic material business. It operates through two business segments. The Life Science segment manufactures and sells fruit acids, including apple acids, gluconic acid and citric acids, as well as application development products, which are used in quality improvers for noodle products, preservation for processed foods and laver cultivation, total sanitation of food manufacturers and the improving of metal processing. The Electronic Material and Functional Chemical segment provides electronic materials, including high-purity spherical silica; functional chemicals, including plastic, paint additives and resin additives, as well as fine chemicals. It is also involves in organic acid business.
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