Ratings Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.

Equities

PACB

US69404D1081

Market Closed - Nasdaq Other stock markets 21:00:00 26/04/2024 BST			5-day change	1st Jan Change
1.47 ^USD	+6.52%		-5.16%	-85.02%

04-22	JPMorgan Downgrades Pacific Biosciences of California to Neutral From Overweight	MT
04-18	Scotiabank Adjusts Pacific Biosciences of California's Price Target to $8 From $15, Maintains Sector Outperform Rating	MT

Summary

Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental situation

Strengths

Analysts expect a sharply increasing business volume for the group, with high growth rates in the coming years.
The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.

Weaknesses

As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
The company has insufficient levels of profitability.
One of the major weak points of the company is its financial situation.
The company's enterprise value to sales, at 4.31 times its current sales, is high.
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 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.
The overall consensus opinion of analysts has deteriorated sharply over the past four months.
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.
The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.

Ratings chart - Surperformance

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Sector: Advanced Medical Equipment & Technology

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