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.
Strengths
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
● Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.
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.
● The price targets of various analysts who make up the consensus differ significantly. This reflects different assessments and/or a difficulty in valuing the company.
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Raymond James Financial, Inc. specializes in financial services. Revenues (including intragroup) by activity break down as follows:
- investment services (76.9%): securities brokerage, stock exchange intermediation, intervention on equity, interest rate and foreign exchange markets, derivatives, trading services, etc. for private and institutional clients;
- retail banking and merchant banking (15.7%);
- asset management (6.9%): USD 196.4 billion in assets under management at the end of September 2023;
- other (0.5%).
Revenues are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (91.3%), Canada (4.9%) and Europe (3.8%).