Adobe Systems shares stand out with an interesting technical chart pattern displaying horizontal consolidation. One would assume that the current accumulation phase will cede eventually to an acceleration to the upside.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
Strengths
● According to sales estimates from analysts polled by Thomson-Reuters, the company is among the best with regard to growth.
● 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.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the last week, the earnings per share forecast has been revised upwards. According to recent estimates, analysts give a positive overview of the stock
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
Weaknesses
● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at USD 274.69.
● The stock is close to a major daily resistance at USD 275.49, which should be gotten rid of so as to gain new appreciation potential.
● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 44.42 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
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Adobe Inc. specializes in the development of software for content design, publication and visual distribution. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- digital media software (73.3%): primarily creation, illustration, viewing, conversion and digital contents broadcasting;
- online marketing and business process management software (25.2%): web publishing, information security, business resources planning, document production management, application automation software, etc.;
- other (1.5%): software for high-definition printing, online training, etc.
Net sales break down by source of income between sales of subscriptions (94.2%), sales of services 3.4%; consulting, training, maintenance and technical support services) and sales of products (2.4%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (53.9%), Americas (6.2%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (25.1%) and Asia/Pacific (14.8%).