Ratings Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. Shanghai S.E.

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End-of-day quote Shanghai S.E. Other stock markets 06:00:00 2024-04-25 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
3.34 ^CNY	+0.91%		-3.75%	+9.15%

Apr. 15	MCC Logs Nearly 3% Decline in Newly Signed Contracts in Q1	MT
Apr. 15	Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd Signs Contracts from January to March 2024	CI

Strengths

Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 3.2 and 2.95 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2025 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 0.03 times its sales.
The company appears to be poorly valued given its net asset value.
Given the positive cash flows generated by its business, the company's valuation level is an asset.
The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
Analysts' price targets are all relatively close, reflecting good visibility on the company's valuation.

Weaknesses

The company's earnings growth outlook lacks momentum and is a weakness.
The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
Low profitability weakens the company.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
The sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.
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.
Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised downwards significantly.

Ratings chart - Surperformance

Sector: Construction & Engineering

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
METALLURGICAL CORPORATION OF CHINA LTD.	+9.15%	8.81B	-
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CHINA RAILWAY GROUP LIMITED	+22.89%	22.01B	B-
WSP GLOBAL INC.	+15.06%	19.47B	A
CHINA COMMUNICATIONS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED	+22.99%	17.6B	B+
EMCOR GROUP, INC.	+64.33%	16.64B	B

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