● In view of fundamental criteria, the company is among low performers as far as mid or long-term investment strategy is concerned.
Strengths
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 9.15 and 8.83 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2017 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
● The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.
Weaknesses
● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at EUR 136.25.
● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
● Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.
● The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.
● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
● Below the resistance at 141.9 EUR, the stock shows a negative configuration when looking looking at the weekly chart.