Adobe Inc.'s shares display attractive technical aspects to anticipate a comeback of the underlying trend.
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
● Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 48.25 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
● The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
● The valuation of the company is particularly high given the cash flows generated by its activity.
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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%).