Shares in IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term. The timing to jump back on the rising trend seems good.
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
● Growth progress expectations are rather promising. Indeed, sales are expected to rise sharply in the coming years.
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
● 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.
● 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 past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 302.83 USD
Weaknesses
● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 83.16 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
● The three month average target prices set by analysts do not offer high potential in comparison with the current prices.
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IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. is a world leader in the design, development and marketing of diagnostic test instruments for animal health monitoring and analysis of dairy products and water. Net sales break down by area of application as follows:
- veterinary diagnoses for pets (91.6%);
- water quality analysis (4.6%);
- veterinary diagnoses for livestock and poultry (3.3%): solutions that help detect infectious diseases in ruminants, pigs, poultry and horses. The group also offers test solutions for dairy products;
- other (0.5%).
Net sales by source of income break down between product sales (57.1%) and services (42.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (65.3%), Canada (4.1%), Americas (2.3%), Germany (4.1%), the United Kingdom (3.3%), France (2.7%), Italy (1.5%), Spain (1.4%), Switzerland (0.9%), the Netherlands (0.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (4.8%), Australia (2.6%), Japan (2.1%), China (1.2%) and Asia/Pacific (2.9%).