The recent downward movement has sent Kering shares back to attractive levels situated around 227.25 EUR. This zone could put an end to the downward movement and offers a good timing for new long positions.
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 configuration.
● The company's MSCI ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.
Strengths
● The company's earnings per share (EPS) are expected to grow significantly over the next few years according to the consensus of analysts covering the stock.
● Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
● Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
Weaknesses
● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
● The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 44.35 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
● The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
● For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
● For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.
● The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.
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A global Luxury group, Kering manages the development of a series of renowned Houses in Fashion, Leather Goods, and Jewelry: Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, Dodo, Qeelin, Ginori 1735, as well as Kering Eyewear and Kering Beauté.
By placing creativity at the heart of its strategy, Kering enables its Houses to set new limits in terms of their creative expression while crafting tomorrow's Luxury in a sustainable and responsible way. It captures these beliefs in its signature: Empowering Imagination.
In 2025, Kering had 43,731 employees and restated revenue of EUR 14.7 billion.
At the end of 2025, the Group had a network of 1,719 stores under its own management, located primarily in Western Europe (361), Japan (225), Asia-Pacific (666) and North America (308).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (5.6%), Western Europe (24.5%), Japan (7.9%), Asia/Pacific (28.6%), North America (24.2%) and other (9.2%).
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Investor
Investor
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Global
Global
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ESG MSCI
ESG MSCI
The MSCI ESG score assesses a company’s environmental, social, and governance practices relative to its industry peers. Companies are rated from CCC (laggard) to AAA (leader). This rating helps investors incorporate sustainability risks and opportunities into their investment decisions.
