September 13, 2018 at 03:13 am EDT
By Jordan Dufee
Share
BUY
Stop-loss triggered
Entry price
Target
Stop-loss
Potential
€42.58
€44.7
€41.4
+4.98%
Accor shares are closing back in on major support levels around 41.76 EUR based on daily price data, which could offer attractive entry points.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
Strengths
● The share is getting closer to its long-term support in weekly data, at EUR 41.4, which offers good timing for buyers.
● Graphically speaking, the timing seems perfect for purchasing the stock close to the EUR 41.76 support.
● Analysts expect a sharply increasing business volume for the group, with high growth rates in the coming years.
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
Weaknesses
● Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.
● Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.
● The company's enterprise value to sales, at 3.56 times its current sales, is high.
● With an expected P/E ratio at 32.32 and 25.22 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.
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Accor is the No. 1 European hotel group. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- operating hotels under management contract (74.7%; HotelServices);
- owned and leased hotel management (25.3%). In addition, the group offers a business of renting luxury private residences, as well as providing digital services to independent hoteliers, concierge services, etc.
At the end of 2023, the group operates a network of 5,584 hotels (821,518 rooms) distributed primerly between luxury and top-range hotels (978 hotels; Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Swissotel, Grand Mercure, Mövenpick, The Sebel and Rixos names), mid-range hotels (1,732; Novotel, Novotel Suites, Mercure, adagio, Mama Shlter and Tribe), and economy hotels (2,826; ibis, ibis Styles, ibis budget, adagio access, hotelF1, Formule 1, Jo&Joe, Breakfree and Greet).