From a horizontal accumulation phase, the timing seems good to buy shares in Analog Devices, Inc. and to get ahead of a break-out on the upside of the congestion area.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● The prospective high growth for the next fiscal years is among the main assets of the company
● 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.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
● Over the last 4 months, analysts have significantly revised upwards the company's estimated sales.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the past twelve months, EPS forecast has been revised upwards.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 67.96 USD
Weaknesses
● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at USD 83.26.
● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
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Analog Devices, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of integrated circuits. The group's activity is organized around 2 families of products:
- analog integrated circuits: converters, amplifiers, MEMS systems, integrated radio frequency circuits, etc.);
- digital integrated circuits.
Net sales break down by market between industrial equipment (53.2%), automotive products (20.9%), communication products (15.7%), and consumer electronics products (9.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (33.8%), Americas (0.7%), China (18.1%), Japan (11.4%), Asia (11.6%), and Europe (24.4%).