Ratings Safaricom PLC

Equities

SCOM

KE1000001402

End-of-day quote Nairobi S.E. Other stock markets 06:00:00 2024-04-25 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
16.3 ^KES	-0.31%		+1.88%	+17.27%

Jan. 25	Transcript : Safaricom PLC - Special Call
Jan. 18	Ethiopia opens up to foreign investment firms ahead of capital markets launch	RE

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 company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
The company returns high margins, thereby supporting business profitability.
The company's attractive earnings multiples are brought to light by a P/E ratio at 9.91 for the current year.
This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
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.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.

Weaknesses

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

Ratings chart - Surperformance

Chart ESG Refinitiv

Sector: Wireless Telecommunications Services

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
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MTN GROUP LIMITED	-25.24%	8.29B	B-

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Financials

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