The selling pressure regarding Voestalpine AG shares could subside shortly. In fact, the support area that is currently being tested around 28.82 EUR has come into play and could, at least in the short term, keep the downside pressure at bay.
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 is one of the most undervalued, with an "enterprise value to sales" ratio at 0.41 for the 2024 fiscal year.
● The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● 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.
● For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● According to Standard & Poor's' forecast, revenue growth prospects are expected to be very low for the next fiscal years.
● The company's currently anticipated earnings per share (EPS) growth for the next few years is a notable weakness.
● The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.
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Voestalpine AG is one of the European largest steel makers. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- flat steel (32.6%): hot and cold laminated steel, galvanized steel, sheet metal, etc.;
- long steel (21%): steering systems, rods, non-welded tubes, etc.;
- special steel (18.9%);
- steel components (18.6%);
- other (8.9%).
Net sales break down by market into automotive (31.6%), oil industry (15.4%), rail transportation (10.3%), construction (10.1%), civil and mechanical engineering (10%), household appliances (4.4%), aerospace (2.2%) and other (16%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Austria (7.5%), Europe (54.5%), North America (17.2%), Asia (6.9%), South America (4.6%) and others (9.3%).