Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
The company's Refinitiv ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.
Strengths
The company has attractive valuation levels with a low EV/sales ratio compared with its peers.
The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.
Weaknesses
As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The company's currently anticipated earnings per share (EPS) growth for the next few years is a notable weakness.
The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
The company does not generate enough profits, which is an alarming weak point.
The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
For the last four months, EPS estimates made by Standard & Poor's analysts have been revised downwards.
Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised downwards significantly.