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.

● The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.


Strengths

● The company is one of the most undervalued, with an "enterprise value to sales" ratio at 0.51 for the 2024 fiscal year.

● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.

● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.

● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.

● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.


Weaknesses

● The company's earnings growth outlook lacks momentum and is a weakness.

● As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.

● The company has insufficient levels of profitability.

● With a 2024 P/E ratio at 19.41 times the estimated earnings, the company operates at rather significant levels of earnings multiples.

● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.

● Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.

● 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.

● The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.