Shares in ACS, Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A. 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 companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
● According to Refinitiv, the company's ESG score for its industry is good.
Strengths
● The stock, which is currently worth 2024 to 0.31 times its sales, is clearly overvalued in comparison with peers.
● Given the positive cash flows generated by its business, the company's valuation level is an asset.
● The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.
● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
● The potential for earnings per share (EPS) growth in the coming years appears limited according to current analyst estimates.
● 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.
● The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.
● The overall consensus opinion of analysts has deteriorated sharply over the past four months.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been revised negatively.
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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%).
ACS, ACTIVIDADES DE CONSTRUCCIÓN Y SERVICIOS, S.A. 
