Strengths

● The group's high margin levels account for strong profits.

● This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at EUR 59.4.

● The stock is close to a major daily resistance at EUR 60.96, which should be gotten rid of so as to gain new appreciation potential.

● According to Thomson-Reuters' forecast, revenue growth prospects are expected to be very low for the next fiscal years.

● The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.

● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.

● Analysts covering the stock have recently lowered their earnings forecast.

● For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.

● For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.

● The technical configuration over the long term remains negative on the weekly chart below the resistance level at 59.4 EUR