The current trading zone is interesting to the point that investors should pay attention to the stock and anticipate a return of the underlying upward trend.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
Strengths
● Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
● The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
● 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.
● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses
● The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
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IBIDEN CO., LTD. is primarily engaged in the manufacture of electronic and ceramic products. It operates in two business segments. The Electronics segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of printed circuit boards (PCBs) and package substrates, as well as the design of PCB patterns. The Ceramics segment offers environment related ceramic products, special carbon products, fine ceramic products and ceramic fibers. The others business engages in provision of housing equipment and melamine decorative laminated sheets, design and construction of slopes, garden landscape and various facilities, synthetic plastic processing, agricultural seafood processing, information service business, automobile transportation, oil marketing, business support, investment, financing, and land ownership and management business.