Shares in NEXON Co., Ltd. show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term. The timing to jump back on the rising trend seems good.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● Its core activity has a significant growth potential and sales are expected to surge, according to Standard & Poor's' forecast. Indeed, those may increase by 38% by 2022.
● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Growth remains a strong point in this company. In their sales forecast, analysts sound optimistic with regard to sales prospects.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● For the past twelve months, EPS forecast has been revised upwards.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● 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.
● The tendency within the weekly time frame is positive above the technical support level at 1805 JPY
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.
● With an enterprise value anticipated at 5.91 times the sales for the current fiscal year, the company turns out to be overvalued.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
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NEXON Co, Ltd. is specialized in the development and publishing of interactive video games. The group offers games (MapleStory, Dungeon&Fighter, FIFA ONLINE 4, etc.) for PCs (70.9% of net sales) and mobile devices (28.4%; smartphones, tablets, etc.).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (1.8%), Korea (91.1%), North America (5.4%), China (1.1%) and others (0.6%).