Ratings MRC Global Inc.

Equities

MRC

US55345K1034

Market Closed - Nyse Other stock markets 21:00:02 29/04/2024 BST			5-day change	1st Jan Change
11.59 ^USD	-0.09%		-1.95%	+5.27%

04-08	Susquehanna Raises Price Target on MRC Global to $15 From $13, Maintains Positive Rating	MT
04-02	MRC Global Inc Enters into Cooperation Agreement with Engine Capital	CI

Summary

The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.

Strengths

The company's attractive earnings multiples are brought to light by a P/E ratio at 11.25 for the current year.
The company is one of the most undervalued, with an "enterprise value to sales" ratio at 0.31 for the 2024 fiscal year.
Given the positive cash flows generated by its business, the company's valuation level is an asset.
Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.

Weaknesses

With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
The company's earnings growth outlook lacks momentum and is a weakness.
As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
The company does not generate enough profits, which is an alarming weak point.
For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.
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.

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Sector: Industrial Machinery & Equipment

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