Shares in ACS, Actividades de Construccion y Servicios, S.A. have recently benefitted from a regain of interest by market participants. The technical chart pattern suggests a continuation of the upward movement.
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 company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 0.22 times its sales.
● This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
● Over the last seven days, analysts have been revising upwards their EPS estimates for the company.
● 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.
Weaknesses
● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
● The company does not generate enough profits, which is an alarming weak point.
● For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
● For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
● For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
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ACS, Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A. is one of Spain's leading construction groups. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- construction of infrastructures and buildings (93.3%): civil engineering infrastructures (primarily highways, hydraulic constructions and railroads), non-residential and residential buildings;
- services (5.4%): cleaning, waste collection and treatment. Moreover, the group offers maintenance services of urban and industrial infrastructures, port and logistical services, and also social services and personal assistance services.
- industrial services (0.5%): development, construction, installation and maintenance of distribution networks of electricity, gas and water, industrial production systems, telecommunication networks, road traffic control systems, etc.;
- other (0.8%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Spain (9.4%), the United States (56.3%), Australia (20.2%), Canada (5.3%), Germany (2.4%) and others (6.4%).