Iberdrola, S.A.: The underlying trend is to the upside
Published on 02/27/2019
at 01:46 pm GMT
Share
BUY
Target price hit
Entry price
Target
Stop-loss
Potential
€7.33
€7.8
€7.09
+6.35%
Shares in Iberdrola show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term, which suggests that the rising trend should be followed.
Summary
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● The company returns high margins, thereby supporting business profitability.
● 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 company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 6.53 EUR
Weaknesses
● The share is close to its long-term resistance in weekly data. Therefore, the potential should be limited. However, a further bullish movement when crossing this resistance will be a positive signal.
● The stock is currently in contact with a medium-term resistance that must be gotten rid of so as to resume the upward trend.
● The company is in a hindered financial situation with significant debt and rather low EBITDA levels.
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Surperformance is Buy on IBERDROLA, S.A. since 21/03/2025
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Iberdrola, S.A. is one of the leading Spanish electricity producers and distributors. The group is also the world's No. 1 producer of wind energy. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- distribution of electricity and natural gas (41.5%);
- transmission and distribution of electricity and natural gas (39.2%): 255,976 GWh of electricity sold in 2025 and distributed by country between Spain (91,641 GWh), Brazil (80,182 GWh), the United Kingdom (46,490 GWh), and the United States (37,663 GWh), and 66,282 GWh of gas sold in the United States;
- production of electricity and renewable energies (19.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Spain (36.2%), Brazil (19.9%), the United States (18.7%), the United Kingdom (16.3%), Mexico (3%) and other (5.9%).
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