Summary

● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.


Strengths

● According to sales estimates from analysts polled by Thomson-Reuters, the company is among the best with regard to growth.

● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.

● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.

● For the last 4 months, the company has been enjoying highly positive EPS revisions, which were frequently and significantly raised.

● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.

● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.

● Within the weekly time frame the stock shows a bullish technical configuration above the support level at 160 CHF


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at CHF 182.

● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at CHF 185.

● Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.

● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.

● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 358.07 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.

● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.

● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.