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 group's high margin levels account for strong profits.

● The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.

● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.

● 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.

● 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.

● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.


Weaknesses

● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 32.38 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.

● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.

● The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.

● The valuation of the company is particularly high given the cash flows generated by its activity.

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

● The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.

● The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.