Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
The company's Refinitiv ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.
Strengths
The company's attractive earnings multiples are brought to light by a P/E ratio at 11.6 for the current year.
The company has attractive valuation levels with a low EV/sales ratio compared with its peers.
This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
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.
Weaknesses
As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
The company sustains low margins.
The group shows a rather high level of debt in proportion to its EBITDA.
For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
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, EPS estimates made by Standard & Poor's analysts have been revised downwards.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.