Ratings Smiths News plc

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GB00B17WCR61

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May. 02	Smiths News to Seek Potential Bolt-On Acquisitions	CI
May. 02	Transcript : Smiths News plc, H1 2024 Earnings Call, May 02, 2024

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.

Strengths

Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 6.41 and 6.11 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2025 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
The stock, which is currently worth 2024 to 0.15 times its sales, is clearly overvalued in comparison with peers.
This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.
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.
Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
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.
Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.

Weaknesses

As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The company's currently anticipated earnings per share (EPS) growth for the next few years is a notable weakness.
As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
The company sustains low margins.
In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.

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Sector: Consumer Publishing

	1st Jan change	Capi.	Investor Rating	ESG Refinitiv
SMITHS NEWS PLC	+14.23%	184M		B-
INNER MONGOLIA XINHUA DISTRIBUTION GROUP CO.,LTD.	-18.26%	618M	-	-

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