The selling pressure regarding Foot Locker shares could subside shortly. In fact, the support area that is currently being tested around 55.06 USD has come into play and could, at least in the short term, keep the downside pressure at bay.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● The share is getting closer to its long-term support in weekly data, at USD 53.45, which offers good timing for buyers.
● Share prices are approaching a strong support area in daily data, which offers good timing for investors.
● The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.
● The company is one of the most undervalued, with an "enterprise value to sales" ratio at 0.66 for the 2020 fiscal year.
● With a P/E ratio at 10.71 for the current year and 9.75 for next year, earnings multiples are highly attractive compared with competitors.
● Over the last 4 months, analysts have significantly revised upwards the company's estimated sales.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● 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.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 53.45 USD
Weaknesses
● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
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Foot Locker, Inc. is a retailer of shoes and apparel. The Company operates through three segments: North America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific. The Company's portfolio of brands includes Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, WSS, and atmos. It uses its omni-channel capabilities to bridge the digital world and physical stores, including order-in-store, buy online and pickup-in-store, and buy online and ship-from-store, as well as e-commerce. It operates websites and mobile apps aligned with the brand names of its store banners. The Company operates approximately 2,523 stores in 26 countries across North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, and a franchised store presence in the Middle East and Asia. The Kids Foot Locker offers athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories for children. Champs Sports is a primarily mall-based specialty athletic footwear and apparel retailer. atmos is a digitally led, brand featuring sneakers and apparel.