Ratings Touchstone Exploration Inc.

Equities

TXP

CA89156L1085

Market Closed - Toronto S.E. Other stock markets 03:43:17 2024-04-26 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
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Apr. 22	EARNINGS AND TRADING: Zenova's Kitemark award; Carnival's eyes savings	AN
Apr. 22	Touchstone Exploration Inc. Enters into the Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement	CI

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.
According to Refinitiv, the company's ESG score for its industry is poor.

Strengths

The prospective high growth for the next fiscal years is among the main assets of the company
The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.
Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 10.33 and 5.55 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2025 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
For the last 4 months, the company has been enjoying highly positive EPS revisions, which were frequently and significantly raised.
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.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.

Weaknesses

The potential for earnings per share (EPS) growth in the coming years appears limited according to current analyst estimates.
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.
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.

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