The underlying tendency is to the upside for shares in Gartner, Inc. and the timing is opportune to get back into the stock. A comeback of the upward dynamic can be anticipated.
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
● 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.
● For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● With an expected P/E ratio at 37.41 and 56.56 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.
● The company's enterprise value to sales, at 6.11 times its current sales, is high.
● The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
● The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.
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Gartner, Inc. specializes in analysis and consulting services in IT and communication technologies. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- research and analysis services (82.7%): conducting analyzes, market assessment, and publication of research to help clients gain market visibility and select suppliers of products or services best suited to their needs;
- consulting services (8.7%): consulting services in the selection and implementation of IT projects, digital marketing strategy, development and realization of information systems architectures, digital transformation projects, etc.;
- organization of congresses, conferences and exhibitions (8.6%).
At the end of 2023, the group had around 2,500 analysts and 950 consultants around the world.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States and Canada (66.2%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (22.6%) and other (11.2%).