Ratings West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.

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WST

US9553061055

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360.4 USD -2.10% Intraday chart for West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. -3.12% +2.36%

Summary

  • The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
  • From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental configuration.
  • The company's Refinitiv ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.

Strengths

  • Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
  • The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
  • Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
  • Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
  • The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
  • Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
  • There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
  • The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.

Weaknesses

  • With an expected P/E ratio at 47.25 and 40.34 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.
  • Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
  • The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
  • The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
  • The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
  • For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
  • The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.
  • For the last four months, EPS estimates made by Standard & Poor's analysts have been revised downwards.

Ratings chart - Surperformance

Chart ESG Refinitiv

Sector: Medical Equipment, Supplies & Distribution

1st Jan change Capi. Investor Rating ESG Refinitiv
+2.36% 26.25B
A-
-2.31% 187B
C+
-3.20% 106B
C
-5.04% 66.9B
A
+0.20% 49.45B
B-
+17.29% 48B
B-
+4.06% 40.84B
B+
+2.07% 26.48B
B
+12.96% 24.62B
A-
-1.93% 24.52B
B
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Financials

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Consensus

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Business Predictability

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Divergence of analysts' opinions
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