Hennes & Mauritz shares are closing near attractive entry levels for a medium term horizon. Investors could regard the decline over the past weeks as a buying opportunity.
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 share is getting closer to its long-term support in weekly data, at SEK 172.75, which offers good timing for buyers.
● Share prices are approaching a strong support area in daily data, which offers good timing for investors.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the last 4 months, the company has been enjoying highly positive EPS revisions, which were frequently and significantly raised.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 172.75 SEK
Weaknesses
● Most analysts agree on a negative opinion with regard to the stock. Indeed, the average consensus issues recommendations to underperform or sell.
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Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) specializes in designing and distributing clothes, accessories and cosmetics for men, women and children. The products are sold primarily under the H&M, H&M Home, COS, Monki, Weekday, Afound, & Other Stories and ARKET brands. Products are manufactured by subcontractors.
At the end of November 2023, products are marketed through a network of 4,369 points of sale (of which 282 franchises) located mainly in Sweden (91), the United States (508), Germany (420), the United Kingdom (238), France (197), Italy (160) and the Netherlands (107).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Germany (14.9%), the United States (14%), the United Kingdom (7.4%), France (4.8%), Sweden (3.7%), Italy (3.2%), the Netherlands (3.1%), Poland (3.1%), Switzerland (2.9%), Canada (2.9%) and other (40%).