Pursuant to the correction that has taken place in recent weeks with respect to the shares in Werner Enterprises, Inc., further downside risk now appears limited by close and important technical support levels at 33.65 USD.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● The current area is a good opportunity for investors interested in buying the stock in a mid or long-term perspective. Indeed, the share is moving closer to its lower bound at USD 34.75 USD in weekly data.
● The close medium term support offers good timing for purchasing the stock.
● The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
● As regards fundamentals, the enterprise value to sales ratio is at 1.06 for the current period. Therefore, the company is undervalued.
● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For several months, analysts have been revising their EPS estimates roughly upwards.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● 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 34.75 USD
Weaknesses
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
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Werner Enterprises, Inc. is a transportation and logistics company, which is engaged primarily in transporting truckload shipments of general commodities in both interstate and intrastate commerce. The Company has two segments: Truckload Transportation Services (TTS) and Werner Logistics. TTS segment consists of Dedicated and One-Way Truckload. Dedicated has 5,265 trucks and provides truckload services dedicated to a specific customer, generally for a retail distribution center or manufacturing facility, utilizing either dry van or specialized trailers. One-Way Truckload has 2,735 trucks and includes various operating fleets, such as the medium-to-long-haul van (Van) fleet, the expedited (Expedited) fleet, the regional short-haul (Regional) fleet and the Temperature Controlled fleet. Werner Logistics segment is a non-asset-based transportation and logistics provider. The segment provides services throughout North America.