Summary

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

● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.


Strengths

● 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.

● 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.

● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.

● Within the weekly time frame the stock shows a bullish technical configuration above the support level at 507.07 EUR


Weaknesses

● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at EUR 612.4.

● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.

● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 43.65 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.

● The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.

● Most analysts agree on a negative opinion with regard to the stock. Indeed, the average consensus issues recommendations to underperform or sell.

● The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.