Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
Strengths
With a P/E ratio at 10.73 for the current year and 8.65 for next year, earnings multiples are highly attractive compared with competitors.
With regards to fundamentals, the enterprise value to sales ratio is at 0.69 for the current period. Therefore, the company is undervalued.
This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
Weaknesses
According to Standard & Poor's' forecast, revenue growth prospects are expected to be very low for the next fiscal years.
As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
The company sustains low margins.
The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
For the last four months, EPS estimates made by Standard & Poor's analysts have been revised downwards.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.