Summary

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

● 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 EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.

● The group's high margin levels account for strong profits.

● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.

● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.

● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.

● 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.

● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.

● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.

● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.


Weaknesses

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

● The overall consensus opinion of analysts has deteriorated sharply over the past four months.