Shares in Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. do not show any sign of a slowdown in the ascending dynamic. Investors could bet on a continuation of the underlying trend.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
Strengths
● The equity is one of the most attractive in the market with regard to earnings multiple-based valuation.
● The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 0.71 times its sales.
● The company appears to be poorly valued given its net asset value.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● Over the last 4 months, analysts have significantly revised upwards the company's estimated sales.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● For several months, analysts have been revising their EPS estimates roughly upwards.
● 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.
Weaknesses
● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
● The company's earnings growth outlook lacks momentum and is a weakness.
● The valuation of the company is particularly high given the cash flows generated by its activity.
● The price targets of analysts who cover the stock differ significantly. This implies difficulties in evaluating the company and its business.
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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. specializes in the manufacture and marketing of chemicals products. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- basic chemicals and fine chemicals products (48.8%): polypropylene, polyethylene, phenols, polyolefins, polyurethane, etc.;
- performance chemicals products (25.5%): elastomers, urethane, polymers, etc. intended in particular for the automotive industry;
- coating materials, films and agrochemicals (14.6%): resins, adhesives, polypropylene films, polyethylene films, industrial films, agrochemicals (insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, etc.) for the food and packaging sectors;
- specialty materials (10.2%): ophthalmic lens materials, photochromic materials, non-woven fibers, dental products, etc. dedicated to the medical and healthcare industry;
- other (0.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (52.2%), China (14.5%), Asia (13.6%), America (11.8%), Europe (7.3%) and other (0.6%).
MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC. 
