From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental configuration.
Strengths
According to sales estimates from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's, the company is among the best with regard to growth.
The company's profit outlook over the next few years is a strong asset.
The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.
Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
Weaknesses
The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 3.3 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
The valuation of the company is particularly high given the cash flows generated by its activity.
The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.
The price targets of various analysts who make up the consensus differ significantly. This reflects different assessments and/or a difficulty in valuing the company.