Summary

● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.

● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.


Strengths

● Its core activity has a significant growth potential and sales are expected to surge, according to Thomson Reuters' forecast. Indeed, those may increase by 59% by 2019.

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

● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.

● 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.

● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.

● For the last week, the earnings per share forecast has been revised upwards. According to recent estimates, analysts give a positive overview of the stock

● For several months, analysts have been revising their EPS estimates roughly upwards.

● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.

● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.

● Within the weekly time frame the stock shows a bullish technical configuration above the support level at 62.27 USD


Weaknesses

● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at USD 84.72.

● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 80.5 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.

● The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.