Summary

● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.


Strengths

● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.

● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Thomson-Reuters are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.

● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.

● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.

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

● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 35.76 EUR


Weaknesses

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

● The firm trades with high earnings multiples: 27.56 times its 2017 earnings per share.