From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental situation
Strengths
Analysts expect a sharply increasing business volume for the group, with high growth rates in the coming years.
The company's earnings per share (EPS) are expected to grow significantly over the next few years according to the consensus of analysts covering the stock.
The company returns high margins, thereby supporting business profitability.
Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.
The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.
Weaknesses
The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been revised negatively.
Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.